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Aaron Rodgers' ex Mallory Edens has taken a thinly-veiled swipe at the NFL superstar after his explosive claims about previous girlfriends.
Following several high-profile relationships, the Pittsburgh Steelers star last year revealed that he had married a mystery woman named Brittani.
Their secretive relationship comes after Rodgers enjoyed public romances with the likes of racing star Danica Patrick, Edens and Shailene Woodley, who was engaged to Rodgers until their break-up in early 2022.
But during a recent podcast appearance, Rodgers took a dig at Patrick and Woodley and insisted he was 'emotionally unavailable' in the 'seven or eight years' between first meeting Brittani and reconnecting with her.
On Tuesday, Edens - the daughter of Milwaukee Bucks co-owner, Wes Edens - hit back at Rodgers with a post on social media.
'My ex is currently on a press tour talking about how he never loved anyone he dated after 2017,' she wrote, without naming Rodgers. 'Unfortunately for him, I am also on a press tour, for a movie inspired by how down bad I was. Really exciting time for competing narratives!!'
Aaron Rodgers' ex Mallory Edens has taken a thinly-veiled swipe at the NFL superstar
Edens is promoting Charlie Harper, a romantic movie that she helped produce and is out in theaters later this week.
Rodgers' comments, meanwhile, were made during an appearance on Not Just Football with Cam Heyward, the podcast hosted by his Steelers teammate.
'I met my wife in 2017... at the time, she was leaving the States and going back to Europe and my biggest regret is not begging her to stay or just proposing right there,' he explained. 'I knew I was supposed to be with this one person, but we were separated by an ocean for a lot of it.'
He added: 'That sent me into a tailspin... I was emotionally unavailable for those seven or eight years because I'd met the person that was going to change my life.'
Woodley and Rodgers began dating in 2020 before the Steelers quarterback popped the question in December 2021. They split just three months later and Rodgers recently claimed Woodley wanted to sleep with another man before they got married.
She was asked directly about her ex's comments by TMZ while arriving at a pre-Emmy Awards gala in Los Angeles and reacted simply with a laugh before walking off without saying a word.
Patrick and Rodgers, meanwhile, started dating in January 2018 and made their red-carpet debut at that year's ESPY awards. They split in July 2020 after just over two years together.
During his appearance on the 'Not Just Football' podcast, Rodgers hit out at Patrick for suggesting he is a 'monster partner' in the interview she gave last year.
'No one cares what they have to say until they say my name,' Rodgers said. 'I dated two women who nobody gives a f*** about unless they drop my name - and they like to say their version of the history of what actually happened.
Rodgers said ex Shailene Woodley wanted to 'go f***' another man while they were engaged
Rodgers started dating Danica Patrick in January 2018 before they split in July 2020
'So I'm this monster of a partner and it's just f***ing horses***. No 1: 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.'
