Shailene Woodley Opens Up About Her Break up From Aaron Rodgers

Appearing is an escape for Shailene Woodley. In a January cowl story for Porter, the actor spoke about discovering refuge in her profession following her breakup from NFL participant Aaron Rodgers final 12 months. Woodley particularly used her position as Gia within the upcoming sequence “Three Ladies” as an outlet. “I used to be so grateful that not less than I may go to work and cry and course of my feelings via my character,” she stated.

Although cathartic, Woodley’s expertise filming the tv adaptation wasn’t with out its challenges. “It was arduous to movie as a result of I used to be going via the darkest, hardest time in my life,” she stated. “It was winter in New York, and my private life was sh*tty, so it felt like a giant ache bubble for eight months.” Information of Woodley and Rodgers’s cut up broke after months of rumors that the couple had been on-and-off. What’s extra, the information got here a couple of 12 months after the 2 introduced their engagement in February 2021.

Within the interview, Woodley additionally spoke concerning the social-media consideration her personal life instantly garnered. “It actually by no means actually hit me that thousands and thousands of individuals all over the world have been truly watching these items and paid consideration to them,” she stated. “Then, I dated someone in America who was very, very well-known.”

This in the end led Woodley to eradicating Instagram from her cellphone. “It was the primary time that I might had a quote-unquote ‘well-known’ relationship, and I watched [the] scrutiny, opinions, the will for folks to know my life and his life and our life,” she stated. “I am a really personal particular person, and so I discovered that any time I posted something, I immediately felt like I used to be sharing an excessive amount of of who I’m with folks I did not essentially belief.”

Now, Woodley stated she’s centered on letting go of expectations and looking for the magic within the little moments. “I’ve at all times cherished getting older, nevertheless it’s virtually like I really feel an exhale; I have been ready so lengthy to expertise not giving a f*ck about what different folks take into consideration me and my life and the alternatives I make,” she stated. “I am so excited to proceed letting go of so lots of the issues that managed me in my twenties; to actually expertise the enjoyment of life in a method that, whenever you’re youthful, is tougher to expertise.”