Shailene Woodley says ‘toxic’ Aaron Rodgers relationship still makes her cry: ‘I lost my soul’

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Shailene Woodley bared her heart while discussing her life and struggles with depression in a recent interview.

While opening up about her “lowest low” phase of life, the 33-year-old actress told Outside, “I had a really awful, traumatic thing happen in early 2022.”

“I knew I was depressed when I looked at a tree and felt nothing. That was the lowest low of my life,” she noted.

Shailene Woodley recalls phase in life when she felt she had 'lost' her soul

Though Shailene Woodley did not specifically mention what happened exactly, it’s a known fact that she and New York Jets quaterback Aaron Rodgers called off their engagement in February of that year.

Now, ‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager’ star has shared, “I felt like I lost my soul, my self, my happiness, my joy. I really understood depression and anxiety and, like, complete soul detachment.”

During the interview, Woodley also claimed that she was in a “toxic situation” while blaming her empathetic nature for it.

“[Empathy] kind of kept me in this loop of feeling everything for everyone,” ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ star stated.

Shailene Woodley says talking about Aaron Rodgers relationship makes her 'cry'

However, Shailene Woodley is thankful to her best friend Kris Zero who was there with her during that difficult time.

Recalling the tough period, which eventually got better, she explained, “Sometimes I was so angry at her. But then we’d go surf, and for ten minutes that day I thought life could be OK again. Then the depression would come back and she’d go, ‘We’re volunteering at the horse ranch!’”

“And we’d find a random f***king horse ranch, and we’d clean up horse shit...And for 20 minutes that day I thought life could be OK again. And then the depression came back,” Woodley added.

During the interview there came a point when Woodley directly addressed Rodgers.

“I haven’t shared much about my relationship with Aaron because it always makes me cry. It was not right. But it was beautiful,” she asserted.

Shailene Woodley thought she and Aaron Rodgers were 'meant to be together'

Though there is no confirmed date or year when Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers began dating, tipsters in February 2021 reported that they were together.

Also, while accepting the award for the 2020 NFL MVP in the same month of 2021, the 41-year-old footballer said, as per People, "It's an honor to win this award for the third time. 2020 was definitely a crazy year," before he declared, "I got engaged."

Later in the same month, the 'Divergent' star claimed, "Yeah, we've been engaged for a while!"

Woodley even hailed her romance with Rodgers as she said in June 2021, "I have the perspective that I would have met Aaron in any context, any space in time, because I feel we were meant to be together."

However, the bubble soon burst in February 2022 when reports claimed the duo had split.

"It was an amicable split; it just wasn't working. They're very different people with busy careers and there were obstacles that they couldn't surmount," an insider shared at the time.

A few months later, another source added, "Shailene felt everything was on Aaron's terms and it wasn't making her happy."