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It’s not a secret Aaron Rodgers and his family aren’t on good terms … but now the Jets signal caller is delving deeper into some of those issues, saying the rift between his parents was so bad that he had to “re-do” himself as a parent.
The 41-year-old 4x NFL MVP QB opened up about the topic in his new three-part Netflix documentary series “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma,” one of the rare times he’s spoken publicly about the subject.
“At times when you have some dysfunction or some separation in your family life, you have to kind of go back as a parent and give yourself what you didn’t get or what you 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,’ Rodgers said during the second episode of the series.
Aaron continued… “I had to find a way to be my own parent in those moments and say, ‘Hey, to hell with being perfect. I’m proud of who you are and what you’ve accomplished in the occasional field.’ And sorry for all the mistakes, because I was just trying to do the best I could, and a lot of times it wasn’t enough.”
While most fans found out about the family drama years later, AR says it started much earlier for him… he just chose not to air their dirty laundry in public.
“I wasn’t super-duper close with everyone in the family,” he says. “Actually, it goes back to high school stuff that made me feel distant. College stuff, post-college stuff. And I kept quiet about it. Because I thought the best way to do it was just, don’t talk about it publicly and what are they doing?”
Of course, Aaron is referring to his little brother Jordanappearance on “The Bachelorette” in 2016 … where during a hometown visit, a place was set for Aaron at the dinner table, highlighting the broken bond between the caller and his family.
“They go to the bull show and leave two empty chairs,” says AR.
“Everyone agrees this was the right thing to do, leave two empty chairs on a stupid dating show where my brother just got famous?”
Rodgers also goes into his family’s religious beliefs, saying “he grew up in a very white, dogmatic church, and it just didn’t work for me. It was very rigid in structure.”
Fast forward to today…Aaron finds the “herbal medicine” helped with the healing.
The Rogers family, including his mom and dad, have yet to comment on the Netflix document.
