Aaron Rodgers has opened up about the evidently still-ongoing rift between himself and his brother, television personality and former NFL player Jordan Rodgers.
Tension between the brothers was made public when the younger Rodgers, 36, appeared on season 12 of The Bachelorette in 2016. During a one-on-one date with JoJo Fletcher, whose hand Jordan eventually won at the end of the season and whom he has since married, he told the reality star that his famous brother was estranged from the family.
Later, during the episode when they visited the contestants hometowns, it was insinuated that Aaron had been invited to have appeared in the episode but never showed up.
The New York Jets quarterback, 41, opened up about his family drama in his new Netflix docuseries, Aaron Rodgers: Enigma, which premiered on Tuesday, Dec. 17.
"They go on a bulls--t show and leave two empty chairs," Rodgers recalled, via E! News. "They all agreed this was like a good thing to do, to leave two empty chairs at a stupid dating show that my brother just went on to get famous—his words, not mine—that he ended up winning."
"I was never asked to go. Not that I would have gone," he added.
Jordan later claimed that the dramatic moment was necessary, telling E! News shortly after the episode aired that he had "made a commitment to go on there and be honest with JoJo and make sure that she knew everything."
But that wasn't the start of Rodgers' falling out with his family. In another part of the doc, he insinuated that his fame put a strain on his relationships.
"When I became real famous, family members said, 'Your life is too big. We need you to be smaller. Be smaller, like, don’t talk about your life," he explained. "It always hurt me because I just feel like, you don’t see me. And so as I found my voice to kind of question things, I also found doing things that, compared to what I grew up in, would be considered an alternative lifestyle."
"It goes back to stuff from high school that kind of made me feel distant," Rodgers continued. "Stuff in college, stuff post-college. And I was quiet about it. 'Cause I thought the best way to do it was, just don’t talk about it publicly. And what do they do?"
Sadly, it sounds like there continues to be no love lost between Rodgers and his family, and that's likely not going to change anytime soon.
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