Inexperienced Bay Packers’ Aaron Rodgers reacts after being sacked by San Francisco 49ers’ Arik Armstead throughout the second half of an NFC divisional playoff NFL soccer recreation Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022, in Inexperienced Bay, Wis. (AP Photograph/Aaron Gash)
As Aaron Rodgers tries to determine his future within the NFL, and as he’s being maligned within the media as a “playoff loser,” a narcissistic “diva” and one among America’s most distinguished COVID vaccine denialists, he’s probably not in search of recommendation or comfort from his household.
That’s as a result of Rodgers, 38, stays estranged from his dad and mom, who dwell in Chico, based on a prolonged ESPN profile of Rodgers that was revealed final week forward of the Inexperienced Bay Packers’ beautiful 13-10 loss to the San Francisco 49ers of their playoff recreation Saturday. Rodgers “hasn’t spoken to his dad and mom or his two brothers for a number of years, for causes he has declined to reveal,” ESPN reported.
The long-reported estrangement between Rodgers and his dad and mom, Ed and Darla Rodgers, and his brothers, Jordan and Luke, continues. The supply of the feud has all the time been mysterious, as are the explanations it persists — despite the fact that Rodgers and his chiropractor father share frequent floor of their skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines and mandates, based on ESPN.
In his lively Twitter feed, Ed Rodgers, a chiropractor, shares posts from politicos and different distinguished voices within the anti-vaccine motion, equivalent to Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens, and has continuously referred to as out “brainwashed liberal idiots” who're “destroying their organs” by taking the vaccine,” ESPN reported.
And despite the fact that Ed Rodgers and Aaron reportedly don’t converse, the daddy expressed help for his well-known son in early November, after his son got here below hearth for testing constructive for COVID-19, allegedly of mendacity about his vaccine standing, violating NFL security protocols and ranting on “The Pat McAfee Present” about all the explanations he refused to be vaccinated, predicting he would turn into a sufferer of “the woke mob” and “cancel tradition.” Ed Rodgers retweeted:
RT this when you suppose Aaron Rodgers @AaronRodgers12 vaccination standing is his enterprise, and his alone.
— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) November 5, 2021
Ed Rodgers additionally seems to share his son’s admiration for podcaster Joe Rogan. Earlier this month, Ed Rodgers retweeted a publish that touted Rogan’s prolonged interview with heart specialist Peter McCullough. In the course of the Rogan interview, McCullough “made a number of inaccurate, deceptive and/or unsubstantiated claims in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID-19 vaccines,” based on Well being Suggestions.
Ed Rodgers may need signaled his appreciation for Rogan, however his son’s admission that he sought COVID remedy recommendation from the podcaster made him the butt of numerous jokes and memes on social media. Rodgers boasted to McAfee that he talked to his “good buddy” Rogan about utilizing Ivermectin to deal with COVID. The drug is given to each people and horses to deal with parasites, however the Meals and Drug Administration has mentioned it's not an efficient remedy for coronavirus. Even McAfee appeared to wrestle to not break into fun when Rodgers invoked Rogan’s identify.
Aaron Rodgers says he is listening to Joe Rogan's recommendation on find out how to battle COVID-19 and he is additionally taking Ivermectin.
Put together for media heads to blow up. pic.twitter.com/DXjGJrwif6
— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) November 5, 2021
Rodgers’ feud together with his household grew to become public information within the spring of 2016, courtesy of Jordan Rodgers when he was a contestant on “The Bachelorette.” Whereas courting JoJo Fletcher, Jordan Rodgers revealed that he’s near his oldest brother Luke, however that Aaron Rodgers is estranged from the remainder of the household. 
Aaron Rodgers was noticeably absent when Fletcher traveled to Chico to fulfill the Rodgers household throughout the hometown dates episode of the fact relationship present. Jordan Rodgers, who nonetheless is engaged to Fletcher, tried to clarify why.
“It’s simply the way in which he’s chosen to do life. I selected to remain shut with my household and my dad and mom and my brother [Luke],” Jordan Rodgers mentioned on the present.
Luke Rodgers added: “It pains each of us, like, to not have that relationship (with Aaron) – we miss our brother. I belief that God brings issues full circle and that the whole lot would simply get again to us being a household.”
This week, a supply near Rodgers informed Folks that he and Jordan had “began speaking a bit of bit” in an effort to heal their years-long rift, although the supply additionally mentioned “there’s nonetheless a division” between them.
The ESPN story mentioned that Rodgers started to tug away from what he thought-about “the dogmatic non secular views of his household” when he was learning and enjoying soccer at Butte Group School, earlier than transferring to UC Berkeley to play for the Golden Bears.
“In the end, it was that guidelines and rules and binary methods don’t actually resonate with me,” Rodgers mentioned on a 2020 podcast together with his then-girlfriend Danica Patrick, discussing how he got here to see himself as non secular relatively than non secular. “Some individuals simply want construction and custom. That works for them. I don’t have an issue with it. It simply doesn’t resonate with me.” 
Nevertheless it’s additionally been reported that Rodgers began to tug away from his household after he led the Packers to a Tremendous Bowl win in 2011, after which after he began relationship film and TV star Olivia Munn in 2014. Some experiences mentioned that Jordan Rodgers and the remainder of the household have been jealous of Aaron’s NFL fame and success. Different experiences mentioned that Munn didn’t get alongside together with his household.
However the estrangement continued after he and Munn broke up in April 2017. The friction appeared to accentuate after Ed Rodgers spoke in regards to the feud in an interview with the New York Instances earlier that 12 months.
“Fame can change issues,” Ed Rodgers mentioned on the time.
Aaron Rodgers prompt that he had spoken to his dad and mom in late 2018, two weeks after Jordan accused him of being a foul son as a result of he did not verify in on their mom when the devastating Camp Hearth destroyed Paradise, the Sierra foothills city subsequent door to Chico. Rodgers let slip that he had just lately seen his dad and mom after they visited him in Inexperienced Bay to observe and recreation and to have fun his thirty fifth birthday.
With this report of a potential thaw in Rodgers’ relationship together with his dad and mom, Munn expressed happiness in an interview with TMZ. Her feedback prompt that she was by no means the rationale that Rodgers stored his distance from his household. “Oh my gosh! Nicely if that’s true, that’s wonderful. It’s lengthy overdue,” she mentioned.
By the spring of 2021, after Rodgers introduced that he was engaged to a different film and TV star, Shailene Woodley, the feud appeared to be again on, based on Us Weekly. Rodgers shared information of his engagement in February 2021 when he was named NFL Most Precious Participant for the third time, however a supply informed Us Weekly in April that it was unclear whether or not the Rodgers household would even rating an invite to the marriage.
“Aaron remains to be fascinated with which members of the family to ask. It’s one thing that’s weighing closely on him,” the supply mentioned, referring to the household’s “tense” dynamic. “It’ll for positive be a special occasion and it might be incorrect of him to not invite his household, however everyone seems to be conscious of their strained relationship and is aware of that (these) issues aren’t going to get mounted in at some point.”
In July, Woodley informed Leisure Tonight that there was “no marriage ceremony planning taking place” as a result of she and Rodgers felt “no rush” to marry.
This story has been up to date.