Danica Patrick Claims Aaron Rodgers Relationship Was ‘Emotionally Abusive,’ Says He ‘Leaves a Trail of Blood’ | Aaron Rodgers, Danica Patrick | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Danica Patrick is looking back at her relationship with Aaron Rodgers.

If you were unaware, the 43-year-old former racecar driver and the 41-year-old pro football player dated from January 2018 to July 2020.

In a new interview, Danica claimed that her relationship with Aaron was “emotionally abusive.”

Keep reading to find out more…While appearing on The Sage Steele Show, Danica was asked to share “the most amount of pain” she’s experienced in her life, and she said, “The breakup with Aaron in 2020.”

“Because it was sudden, it felt like. It was my life. So like when you live with somebody, it’s your whole life,” Danica explained. “And because the nature of the relationship was emotionally abusive, so that wore me down to nothing.”

“People could never imagine that I would lack … any confidence or belief in the simple things about who I am. Everything was torn to bits,” she continued. “Yeah, he leaves a trail of blood. I don’t think I’m saying too much earth-shattering stuff after we — there’s been enough out there.”

Sage then asked Danica if she had known “at the time” that the relationship was “emotionally abusive,” or whether she realized it “in hindsight” after she “recovered and [had] gotten to know” herself again.

“Hindsight, I ignored it, but in real life, it was just like I just feel like — I would say all the time, ‘I’m built for hard things. I can handle hard things,’” Danica answered. “And so I just saw it as a hard thing.”

“And my nature is to try harder and do more,” she continued. “And I was like, ‘What if I don’t do it for the right person?’ Like what if I just get a stick up my a– about this and get too proud and go like, ‘You know what, I’m just done.’ Instead of going, ‘Man just try a little harder because what if you look back and wish you would have tried?’ Like I would never want that in my life.”

Danica explained that she tried to keep her relationship with Aaron, she has no regrets about how it all happened and ended because she said she knows “that everything leads to the next thing.”

“But it gave me the greatest gift, the greatest gift, which is myself,” she said. “It gave me the greatest gift of how much I needed to show up for myself and take care of myself.”

Just recently, Aaron‘s ex-fiancee Shailene Woodley shared some rare comments about their relationship.