In an excerpt from the new book, OUT OF THE DARKNESS: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers by Ian O’Connor, the New York Post detailed what went down between Rodgers and his family.
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Olivia Munn deserves some blame for Aaron Rodgers’ rift with his family, but not all of it, a new book claims.
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Rodgers, the superstar NFL quarterback, dated the actress about a decade ago and later stopped speaking to his parents and other family members for nine years.
In an excerpt from the new book, OUT OF THE DARKNESS: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers by Ian O’Connor, the New York Post detailed what went down between Rodgers and his family.
The book claims Rodgers stopped speaking with his parents in the winter of 2014, when Munn was living with him in Green Bay. Ed and Darla Rodgers had visited Rodgers before an early December home game “and enjoyed a pleasant conversation with the actress. They left town believing there were no problems among them.” But when Rodgers stunk it up with one of his worst games ever against Buffalo, it appears Munn was upset and allegedly “blindsided them with an angry rant about their plans to see Aaron again when the Packers played at Tampa Bay before Christmas, a game that Rodgers family members planned to attend as part of a Disney World trip … The actress made it clear that she did not want her boyfriend’s parents meeting them or attending the game. Ed and Darla explained that they had been attending Aaron’s games since he was a kid and did not need her permission to continue doing so,” the book claimed.
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Munn declined comment for the book through a representative and Rodgers’ parents claim they didn’t disparage her or do anything to set her off during the incident.
“The only thing I said was, ‘You haven’t been on the scene very long. You’re just his girlfriend. We’re his parents,’” Ed said in the book.
Ed and Darla did go to the Tampa Bay game and did not see their son. Sources said Rodgers later emailed his family scolding them for attacking “the woman I love.”
Rodgers had earlier cast out his best friend Jordan Russell, before he dated Munn, so sources said he was likely to ditch friends or family with or without her help, according to the book.
“‘You get on his bad side, you cross him once, you are dead to him,’ said someone who knew him for many years in Green Bay. So perhaps too many people close to the quarterback were too quick to finger a convenient fall guy, or fall gal, rather than hold him fully responsible for his own choices,” the book said.
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The parents also said in the book that Munn “Just made stuff up to make herself look good … She said the family was dysfunctional before she met Aaron, which is bull. We were going to all of his games; we were staying at his house. We had a great relationship. Nothing bad was going on.”
Darla: “I can think about showbiz families that, like the Kardashians, climb all over each other for fame and stuff like that. But that’s not our family. Nobody did that.”
Munn and Rodgers split in 2017. Rodgers told the book’s author, O’Connor: “he absolved his ex-girlfriend of blame in the estrangement and said the actress “has nothing to do with all the years before.” He said that his family issues are deep-rooted, though he declined to discuss the specifics of those issues for public consumption.”
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An aunt of Rodgers says in the book she believes the strict Christian upbringing was the root of the later split.
“I think that what happened with Aaron,” she said, “being raised so Christian … was he got to Cal and met kids from different countries and cultures, and they worshipped their own god their own way, and he realized they were good people.
“… And he started to make his own choices.”
Rodgers and his father finally spoke after nearly nine years when they briefly embraced on a Lake Tahoe golf course last summer before Aaron’s first training camp with the New York Jets.
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