Aaron Rodgers’ parents blamed his then-girlfriend Olivia Munn for their son cutting off contact with them for nine years, a new biography about the football superstar reveals.
Ed and Darla Rodgers felt the actress was the “main culprit” behind their family discord that began in 2014 when she began dating their second son, according to ‘Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers’ by sportswriter Ian O’Connor.
Darla, a devout Christian, was mortified that Munn, now 44, had sex with Rodgers, 40, before marriage. She was even more horrified when Munn revealed in interviews that they did not do so on game days.
O’Connor writes: ‘Given her devout religious views, Aaron’s mother frowned on premarital sex and objected to her middle son sharing a hotel room with his girlfriend even as an NFL player.
‘Darla didn’t like how Munn joked about oral sex in an interview or how she publicly talked about her sex life with Aaron just before the loss in Buffalo.’
A new biography, ‘Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers’, sheds light on Aaron Rodgers’ relationship with his ex-girlfriend Olivia Munn
Munn, now 44, had sex with Rodgers, 40, before they married. She even revealed in interviews that they did not do it on game days.
The interview in question appeared to be Munn speaking on ‘Watch What Happens Live’ in December 2014, where host Andy Cohen asked her if she had had sex with the then-Green Bay Packers quarterback on game days.
She replied: “No, we don’t. Not on match days. There’s no rule, but it just doesn’t happen because there are other things to focus on.”
However, Munn said they occasionally have sex after Packers games.
Ed and Darla Rodgers felt the actress was the “main culprit” behind their family discord that began in 2014 when she began dating their second son, O’Connor says.
“It depends on how advanced the game is… I try to have sex as much as I can,” he said.
According to a source, Munn was “saying all that shit and it pissed Darla off, it really pissed her off.”
Ed and Darla took issue with another interview Munn did with Cohen in which she claimed she had tried to encourage him to work things out with his parents.
Ed said, “It’s a lie.”
Tensions rose further when Munn, who Aaron broke up with in 2017, got into an “angry fight” with her parents over how they weren’t able to see Rodgers after a game in Tampa.
Rodgers’ parents planned to attend the game during a trip to Disney World that year, but Munn “made it clear that she did not want (Rodgers’ parents) to meet them or attend the game,” O’Connor writes.
According to the book: ‘Ed and Darla explained that they had been attending Aaron’s games since he was a child and did not need his permission to continue doing so.’
Tensions escalated further when Munn raged at Ed and Darla over how they were unable to see Rodgers, the former Green Bay Packers quarterback, after a game in Tampa.
Ed and Darla Rodgers expected to receive a phone call from Rodgers apologizing for Munn’s comments, but they never did.
At that point, Ed told Munn, “You haven’t been on the scene very long. You’re just his girlfriend. We’re his parents.”
Her parents expected to receive a phone call from Rodgers apologizing for Munn’s comments, but they never received one.
They went to Tampa anyway and found an email he sent to his family members that effectively said, “Don’t attack the woman I love.”
O’Connor, a sportswriter for the New York Post, writes that Ed and Darla had been “sent to the Island” and would not speak to their son for another nine years.
However, O’Connor writes that Munn “did not help her own cause” and that one incident in particular caused a rift between her and Rodgers’ parents.
Munn “insulted” them when she returned Christmas presents Ed and Darla bought for her and her son, O’Connor explains.
In an unfortunate coincidence, they showed up at the house on Ed’s birthday, leading him to mistakenly believe that Rodgers had sent him a birthday present – until he opened it.
One possible reason Rodgers broke with his parents, O’Connor says, is that he felt his generosity toward them “was taken for granted.”
Munn “agreed” with that sentiment and felt he should not allow his family to “chase fame and fortune through him.”
Rodgers, who now plays for the New York Jets, seemed to believe this because his own mother was “strong and unwavering” and Munn was a “presence in her own right.”
However, over time, Ed and Darla concluded that Munn was the “main culprit behind the family divide.”
Rodgers, now with the New York Jets, felt his generosity toward his parents “was taken for granted,” O’Connor writes.
Rodgers never accepted this and says in the book that she “had nothing to do” with the deep tension with her parents.
He told O’Connor: ‘I have questions about why they feel the need to talk about it, because it’s like a game of poker.
“When you have all the cards in your hand, you don’t have to bluff. There’s nothing they can say except make up stories, but you have to look at the facts.”
In 2020, three years after their split, Munn sparked speculation that she was criticizing Rodgers’ sexual prowess during an interview in which she suggested she faked orgasms with one of her ex-boyfriends, whom she did not identify.
Munn said: ‘I swear to God I regret every time I’ve fake moaned because these guys are out there feeling so fucking confident.
‘I have one in particular that was the worst, the worst when it came to having sex.
“He actually performed oral sex on me twice during the years we were together and I once asked him and I said, ‘Why don’t you ever do it?’ but by the way, I don’t want you to,” Munn said.
Rodgers’ parents hoped their middle son would marry his ex-fiancée Destiny Newton, but he broke up with her in 2013, O’Neil says.
One of the NFL great’s friends said: “We all loved her. We knew Destiny. She would have kept the team closer together,” according to O’Connor.
The friend said all the blame for the Rodgers family’s rift should not fall on Munn’s shoulders.
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The quarterback had exiled friends as well as family, and once did a “clean sweep” of people close to him, the friend said.
Rodgers also changed agents and “never needed much help figuring out when to end a relationship,” O’Connor writes.
A family friend said: “If you get on his bad side, if you anger him once, you’re dead to him.”
Others thought Munn had “opened Rodgers’ eyes” to the fact that some people were taking advantage of him.
During an interview, Rodgers said she gave him “stability off the field,” which meant “a lot” to him.
Munn, who starred in HBO’s The Newsroom and The Daily Show, married comedian John Mulaney, 41, this year, with whom she has a two-year-old son, Malcolm.
In 2023, it was reported that Rodgers is in a “casual” relationship with model Mallory Edens, the daughter of Milwaukee Bucks and Aston Villa owner Wes Edens.