Aaron Rodgers goes scorched earth on ‘depressed’ Danica Patrick in ugly split feud

Aaron Rodgers didn’t mince words while discussing his breakup with ex-girlfriend, former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick — whom he accused of publicly sharing a false narrative that he’s a “monster partner.”

During Thursday’s installment of the “Not just Football” podcast, Rodgers responded to Patrick, who said in a 2025 interview that their “emotionally abusive” relationship “wore me down to nothing” — and that Rodgers left “a trail of blood” when they broke up in 2020.

“No one cares what they have to say until they say my name,” Rodgers said during a bombshell second part of his sit-down with his Steelers teammate Cam Heyward. “I dated two women who nobody gives a f–k about unless they drop my name — and they like to say their version of the history of what actually happened.

“So I’m this monster of a partner and it’s just f–king horses–t. Number one: Why are you still talking about me? It’s been years.

“I dated Danica. She had just retired [In November 2017]. She was depressed and not fun to be around. But I didn’t leave her because I was trying to be there and be a good partner. Then it was going a certain direction obviously. There was no intimacy; there was nothing.

“I’m buying a house in Malibu and she goes, ‘Do you want to buy it together?’ And I said no. And she said, ‘You know what that means then?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, that’s the way things are going.’ She said, ‘Well, let’s get counseling.’ Then we got counseling. Then COVID hits and we’re stuck together.

“She tells a story that she was so blindsided and getting left by you, and that he leaves a trail of blood around him. And I’m like, what are you talking about? That’s not what happened.”

Rodgers did not name the other woman he said he dated.