Having been part of Aaron Rodgers’ life for three years, Olivia Munn knows the ups and downs of the quarterback’s personal affairs, namely the frosty relationship with his family.
“I met one brother, the one who was on ‘The Bachelorette,'” the actress said Wednesday during an appearance on Sirius XM’s “Andy Cohen Live.”
“I was friendly with Jordan. I met the parents only a couple of times,” Munn continued. “Before he and I started dating, he hadn’t spoken to the parents and one brother for like eight months before we started dating.”
Munn denied being the source of the family drama, which had been suggested, and encouraged the quarterback to have a heart-to-heart with his family.
“My last day on ‘The Newsroom,’ when I was filming the ‘The Newsroom,’ I spent the day in my trailer just encouraging him to have an honest conversation with your parents,” Munn said, adding, “They had a really nice conversation and then they started coming out my first year in Green Bay in 2014.”
Despite hope of a slight thaw within the Rodgers clan, tensions appeared to surface again in 2016, when the quarterback’s younger brother, Jordan, competed on “The Bachelorette.” Bringing home future fiancée JoJo Fletcher to meet the family, Jordan noted his relationship with Aaron was essentially non-existent.
“I have a great relationship with my [older] brother, Luke. Me and Aaron don’t really have much of a relationship,” Jordan said on the show.
Seemingly alluding to his brother’s career in the NFL spotlight, Jordan added, “It’s just kind of the way he’s chosen to do life, and I chose to stay close with my family, my parents and my brother.”
Though Aaron chose not to air his dirty laundry publicly, father Ed, a sports chiropractor, doubled-down on son Jordan’s claims.
“Fame can change you, but one thing I know about Jordan, he’s so strong-willed and that’s not going to change him in any way,” Ed said on “The Bachelorette.”
Munn believes her ex’s lofty status complicates things for all parties involved.
“At the end of the day, I do believe that family and fame and success can be really complicated if their dreams are connected to your success,” Munn said. “They’re [the Rodgers family] all into sports, they’re all in sports… Aaron is one of the best, if not the best quarterback to ever play the game. Their work has a direct connection to what he does.
“At the end of the day, there’s a lot of complications. I don’t think either side of the road is clean, but I do think it’s not OK when you try to stand on someone’s shoulders and then throw dirt in their face, which is what I think they did with him,” she said.
Though she and Rodgers no longer keep in touch, following their breakup last April after three years of dating, the youngest member of the Rodgers clan is keeping the door ajar for Aaron, where his future wedding is concerned.
“There’s no scenario in which I wouldn’t want my entire family at my wedding,” Jordan previously said. “That’s something all of our family wants and hopes for at this point.”
Should Aaron accept an invite one day, new girlfriend Danica Patrick could very well be his plus one.