Aaron Rodgers claimed in his new Netflix docuseries that his family drama dates back to high school — long before his relationship with Olivia Munn.
“At times when you have some dysfunction or some separation in your family life, you have to kind of reparent yourself and give yourself what you didn’t get or wanted to hear more of when you were a kid, and I think for me, I just wanted to hear, ‘I’m proud of you,’” the New York Jets quarterback shared in the second episode of “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma,” which premiered Tuesday.
Rodgers, 41, went on to claim that he basically raised himself while reflecting on his estranged relationship with his parents, Ed and Darla Rodgers.
“I had to find a way to be my own parent in those moments and say, ‘Hey, f–k being perfect. I’m proud of who you are and what you’ve accomplished on and off the field,’” he said. “And forgiveness for all the mistakes, because I was just trying to do the best I could and a lot of times it wasn’t good enough.”
The NFL star said he started to distance from his parents in high school due to their devout Christian beliefs.
“I felt like the love that I was modeled growing up, it’s kind of a merit-based spirituality,” he said. “If you don’t believe you deserve that love, it’s hard for you to give it, and it’s sure as hell hard for you to receive it.”
Aaron noted that plant medicine has been a “big teacher” for him when it comes to self-love.
The athlete has made headlines in the past for his use of ayahuasca and other plant-based psychedelics.
Elsewhere in the three-part docuseries, the athlete alluded to losing friendships and family over his controversial anti-vax views.
“It was heartbreaking,” he admitted.
While Aaron asserted that his broken household dates back to his teen years, his dad has claimed the fracture began when the MVP started dating Munn in 2014.
“We had a great relationship. Nothing bad was going on,” Ed said in sportswriter Ian O’Connor’s book “Out of Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers.”
The patriarch also said Munn’s claim that Aaron had stopped speaking to his family eight months before she came into the picture was “a lie.”
However, the former Green Bay Packers player insisted the actress, 44, was not the cause of his family’s rift, telling O’Connor that she “has nothing to do with all the years before” and that their issues were “deep-rooted.”
Aaron and Munn dated for three years before breaking up in 2017.
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