Aaron Rodgers Returns to Ex Jessica Szohr After Dating Stars

Aaron Rodgers moved from Hollywood romances to a broken engagement before finally tying the knot in secret. His path to marriage was never straight. He dated Olivia Munn, Danica Patrick, and Shailene Woodley. In the end, he returned to the woman he once regretted losing. The 42-year-old quarterback had his dating life noticed by celebrity media starting in the late 2000s. Jessica Szohr was one of his earliest documented Hollywood links. Things got much more public after he started seeing Munn in 2014.

Szohr, a star from "Gossip Girl," shared an on-and-off romance with Rodgers during the early 2010s. Fans first linked them in 2011 after spotting them together publicly. They ended their relationship because of busy schedules. Reports say they tried again in 2014 before breaking up once more. Their connection happened before his other famous relationships. The pair seemed friendly afterward. People magazine noted Szohr attended Rodgers' birthday party in 2017, though few details exist about their time together.

Rodgers met Olivia Munn while presenting the Song of the Year award at the ACM Awards in 2014. Their romance quickly became one of his most high-profile relationships. Both had demanding schedules. Munn explained how they managed to make it work. "There's a lot of traveling, a lot of driving, and then you're just really happy with the decisions that you make," she told E! News in 2014. She added that saying no to some work did not sadden her. She wanted her life full and rich with experiences, so they figured things out as they went.

Engagement rumors surfaced between them in 2016. Munn even showed off a ruby on her ring finger. They called it quits just months later. Rodgers told ESPN shortly after the breakup that living a relationship in the public eye was difficult. He said it had extra constraints because others formed opinions about their work and inappropriate connections. During their time together, reports emerged that Rodgers was estranged from his family. Many fans blamed Munn for this rift.

Munn addressed this during a 2025 appearance on the "Armchair Expert" podcast. She said there was a big narrative that stuck with her for years. She explained the dynamic in the family had nothing to do with her. People claimed she was keeping his family apart. In Ian O'Connor's 2024 biography, "Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers," Rodgers stated the cause of the schism was deep-rooted. He also clarified that Munn had nothing to do with years of prior estrangement.

Rodgers then traded Hollywood glamour for racing royalty by dating Danica Patrick. The former IndyCar and NASCAR star confirmed their romance in January 2018. They had crossed paths at the ESPYs long before that. They kept in touch via email until sparks flew. "We kept in touch a little bit, and there were some years we didn't talk to each other," Patrick said later.

We referred to each other as Chicago and Green Bay – it was very cute," Patrick told Jenny McCarthy on her SiriusXM show. The relationship quickly became serious and highly visible, with the pair making public appearances and Rodgers openly discussing their life together. "We're just two people who enjoy being around each other and love each other," he told Artful Living in 2018. "We're really into each other… we're really attracted to each other… we really enjoy traveling… She's up for anything travel-wise, which is fun. She's a good travel partner because she's so laid-back and low-maintenance. And she's a hell of a cook, so we love just staying in, too. She eats really healthy. She's inspired me in that way."

But there would be no trip down the aisle: after more than two years as a couple, Patrick's representative confirmed their split in July 2020. In a 2025 appearance on "The Sage Steele Show," Patrick spoke about her time with Rodgers, claiming that "the nature of the relationship was emotionally abusive." "He leaves a trail of blood," she said, later adding, "It gave me the greatest gift, the greatest gift, which is myself. It gave me the greatest gift of how much I needed to show up for myself and take care of myself."

On a recent episode of "Not Just Football with Cam Heyward," Rodgers shared his side of the story, saying, "I dated Danica. She had just retired. She was depressed and not fun to be around. But I didn't leave her because I was trying to be there and be a good partner. Then it was going a certain direction, obviously. There was no intimacy; there was nothing." "She tells a story that she was so blindsided… and that 'he leaves a trail of blood around him.' And I'm like, what are you talking about? That is not what happened, by any means."

If Rodgers' previous romances generated headlines, his whirlwind relationship with Shailene Woodley took things to another level. Speculation the two were romantically linked first surfaced in 2020, but by February 2021, Rodgers stunned fans by revealing he was engaged while accepting his third NFL MVP award. Woodley soon confirmed she was the mystery fiancée.

But the fairy-tale ending never arrived. Their engagement unraveled, and the pair ultimately separated in 2022 after attempts at reconciliation. The breakup has remained a subject of public discussion: Woodley has spoken about experiencing a deeply difficult period around that time, while Rodgers offered his own sharply different account of their relationship and split in September 2026.

On Heyward's podcast, Rodgers explained that he didn't "ruin" the actress' life during their 2022 split. "I proposed to Shailene and she said yes. Now, she maybe felt like she was forced to make a decision. She could have said no," Rodgers began. "A couple days after that, she tells me, 'Before we get married, I gotta go f--- this guy,' and I'm like – because her story is that I ruined her life and gave her crazy depression because I left her. But in actuality, she told me that, and then she took off the ring by March – I proposed in December – and we had a couple of times where we tried to get reunited and nothing ever happened," he said. "There wasn't even a relationship in 2022 to break off. She literally told me, 'I don't want to be with you' after we tried some reconciliation in 2021.

There's just a lot of narrative out there that isn't true," Rodgers clarified, cutting through the noise surrounding him. Woodley has not responded to Rodgers' claims, leaving the story to breathe on its own terms. After years of very public romances, Rodgers ultimately married someone who has made a point of staying almost completely out of the spotlight. His name is Brittani.

Rodgers revealed in June 2025 that he was a married man and later identified his wife only as Brittani. "In 2017, I met my wife, and at the time, she was leaving the States and going back to Europe," he told Heyward on the September podcast. "And my biggest regret is not begging her to stay or proposing right there, because that sent me right there into a tailspin of what can I be accused of as a partner in a relationship."

The NFL star explained he met Brittani while she was living in Austin after attending the University of Texas. After the two didn't work out initially, she moved back to Europe before they reconnected years later. "She was engaged, then I got engaged, and luckily, for me, we came back together," he said.

The couple quietly eloped in 2025, with Rodgers deliberately keeping his new wife away from the celebrity circus that surrounded his previous relationships. And the notoriously private quarterback is already looking toward their next chapter: Rodgers said in September 2026 that he hopes fatherhood is in his future after football.