Aaron Rodgers Makes Rare Comments on Estrangement From Family, Reveals If He's Open to Reconciliation

While appearing on the Aubrey Marcus Podcast on Wednesday (August 3), Aaron opened up about his family drama.

“Many people have issues with family and deal with them in their own ways,” he said. “For me, I’ve always tried to deal with it quietly behind closed doors. That hasn’t always been the case or hasn’t been good enough for a lot of people who want to write about it, or pick it apart, or talk about it, or even some things that my family has said or done over the years that’s been public.”

He added he has “deep gratitude and love” for the way he was raised, and specifically spoke about his father.

“The fact that he was willing to take a chance and go through the poverty that we experienced to make a better life for his kids by going back to school as a middle-aged man—my age, he went back to chiropractic college trying to give us a better life—I have deep, deep gratitude for that,” Aaron shared, “and really appreciate the sacrifices that were made on our behalf to give us a better life.”

He added, “I do believe in healing and I believe in the possibility of reconciliation at some point, but it’s a different journey for all of us. And to judge on the outside about what should be, or what it should look like, or who’s wrong and who’s right, it’s just a game I’ve never wanted to play and still don’t want to play.”

He continued, “Who knows what that future is going to look like, when it’s going to look like, when the time is going to come? But I have no bitterness in my heart, I have no resentment. I just have deep love and appreciation for the lessons that I learned and the fact that if I hadn’t been raised that way, all the good and all the frustrating, there’s no way I’d be sitting here today.”

He added, “To not have that perspective that because of the things that I experienced I turned out the way I did is looking at the glass as half empty and I just won’t do that. I look at it as there were experiences that were important. I chose to be in this family and to deal with everything that I dealt with positive and difficult and I have deep love and gratitude for them and their journeys and hope for the future.”

Aaron has said very little in the past about his family, but his dad did elaborate a bit a few years ago. Aaron‘s brother (who you may recognize from reality TV) made a public accusation against him back in 2018.