Aaron Rodgers discusses ongoing family rift with brother Jordan, citing past incidents and fundamental differences in worldview as root causes of their distant relationship.
Aaron’s rift with his family reportedly dates back at least a decade. When Jordan, 37, competed on future wife“Like I said, I have a great relationship with my brother Luke.
Me and Aaron don’t really have that much of a relationship,” he said in the 2016 episode.
“It’s just kind of the way he’s chosen to do life and I’ve chosen to stay close with my family and my parents and my brother. Yeah, it’s not ideal and I love him and I can’t imagine what it’s like to be in his shoes and have the pressure he has, the demands from people that he has. Don’t have hard feelings against him, it’s just how things go right now.
”at a family dinner — which the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback took issue with.
“They go on a bulls*** show and leave two empty chairs,” Aaron said on his 2025 Netflix Enigma series. “They all agreed this was 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. But a dinner that was during the season, I was never asked to go to.
Not that I would’ve gone. ”Megan Briggs/Getty Images; Kareem Black/USA Network Given the very public estrangement with his family, Aaron Rodgers certainly hasn’t been eager to share the spotlight with his brother. While Aaron, 40, was competing in the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in 2016 — which coincided with his younger brother Jordan Rodgers, 35, “It wasn’t like I was super duper close with everybody in the family.
I was close with my little brother,” Aaron said of his brother.
“But in actuality, it goes back to stuff from high school that kind of made me feel distant. Stuff in college, stuff post-college. ”“I grew up in a very white, dogmatic church and that just didn’t really serve me,” he recalled in.
“It was very rigid in structure. I’m not a rigid person. Shame, guilt, judgment. It was like, ‘We have the truth.
Our way or the highway. Our way is heaven; your way is hell. ’ Even talking to my parents, it was very black and white. Like, somebody has to be wrong, somebody has to be right.
I just slowly uncoupled from that in high school. ”As Aaron Rodgers celebrates his new marriage, he revealed the hostility within his immediate family continues to rage on. Rodgers, 41, appeared on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday, June 24, where he discussed his wife, Brittani, for the first time since he announced they had tied the knot recently.
In doing so, Rodgers He added, “I never said anything until it got to the point where I’m like, ‘Alright, enough is enough. ’”
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