Shailene Woodley opens up more about her split from ex-fiancé Aaron Rodgers, calling their relationship “beautiful” but a “toxic situation.”

“I haven’t shared much about my relationship with Aaron because she always makes me cry,” the actress told Outside magazine. “It wasn’t right. But it was beautiful.”

The New York Jets quarterback, 41, and Woodley, 33, began secretly dating during the pandemic. Yahoo Entertainment confirmed in February 2022 that the couple had ended their engagement. Over the next few weeks they were seen together again and again and eventually ended things for good.

“Something really terrible, traumatic happened in early 2022,” Woodley remembers. She said she experienced “depression,” “anxiety” and “complete soul detachment.”

“I felt like I had lost my soul, my self, my happiness, my joy,” she said, explaining that she stayed in a “toxic situation” because she showed compassion for “someone else.”

Woodley, who said she is empathetic “to a degree,” said her empathy kept her “in this loop of feeling everything about everyone.” The actress “knew” she was “depressed when I looked at a tree and didn’t feel anything.”

“That was the lowest point of my life,” she said.

The Killer heat The star was depressed for about six months and credits her best friend and stylist Kris Zero for helping her out of that dark time.

“We went surfing and for ten minutes that day I thought life might be okay again. Then the depression came back and she said, ‘We’re volunteering at the horse ranch!'” Woodley said.

The environmentalist previously called her and Rodgers’ split the “darkest, hardest time of my life.” Neither star has explicitly said why they broke up; However, the public’s interest in their relationship surprised Woodley.

“Honestly, it never really occurred to me that millions of people around the world were actually watching and paying attention to these things. Then I dated someone in America who was very, very famous,” she told Porter magazine last year. “It was the first time I had been in a ‘famous’ relationship and I saw (the) scrutiny, opinions, wanting people to know my life and his life and our lives – it just felt hurtful.” “so that it was fun before.