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Shailene Woodley just proved that you should never get on the wrong side of her, as she had quite an epic response to all the backlash her fiancé Aaron Rodgers has been receiving for his COVID-19 vaccine comments. To recap, the 37-year-old Green Bay Packers quarterback revealed that he had tested positive for Coronavirus on Wednesday, November 3rd, which then led to a lot of backlash due to some comments he made about actually being “immunized” despite not receiving any doses of the vaccine.
Although he hasn’t gone into great detail abouthow he considers himself to be immunized without the vaccine, it’s believed that he chose to go down the homeopathic route, which has reportedly not been accepted by the NFL, and by their standards, he is considered “unvaccinated” and must be tested daily as part of the league’s health and safety protocols. Rodgers revealed that he didn’t feel well on Thursday, the day after testing positive, but was reportedly much better on Friday.
The athlete made the vaccination comments on The Pat McAfee Show on Friday, November 5th (which you can see in the video above) revealing that he was allergic to something in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which is why he couldn’t take them. He then said that he chose not to have the third vaccine option, either – the single dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine – due to the risk of blood clots. “I realize I’m in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now,” Rodgers said on the show.
“So before my final nail gets put in my cancel culture casket, I think I would like to set the record straight on so many of the blatant lies that are out there about myself,” he continued. “I believe strongly in bodily autonomy and ability to make choices for your body: Not have to acquiesce to some woke culture or crazed group of individuals who say you have to do something. Health is not a one-size-fits-all for everybody. I consulted with a now good friend of mine Joe Rogan, after he got COVID and I’ve been doing a lot of stuff that he recommended.”
He didn’t go into further detail about what he has been doing, but as you can imagine, his comments sparked a lot of controversy, which his fiancée was more than happy to defend him over. Or was she? The 29-year-old Big Little Lies star initially came under fire for posting a seemingly cryptic message supporting her fiancé, which she was then accused of deleting. The message, which was posted on November 4th, read: "Calm Seas May Bring You Peace, But Storms Are Where You’ll Find Your Power."
However, the Fault in Our Stars actress then defended her own actions by firstly telling everyone that her quote was not in response to the backlash surrounding her fiancé, and secondly, by reminding the internet how Instagram Stories worked (i.e. that they disappear after 24 hours) in a separate story posted just two days later on November 6th.
"Just read somewhere that the media is claiming I deleted an Insta story amid the ‘chaos.’ (An astrology post of all things) (not cryptic at all you dummies.) Do you even know how stories work brah? They self-delete after 24 hours," the Divergent actress wrote on her Story accompanied by a video of a pig having a bath. Because, why not? "Literally lol’ing over here over your determination to make a story out of nothing. Grasping at straws my dears," she concluded.
Rodgers isn’t allowed to return to the team for ten days after testing positive. He must have a negative test to return on November 13th.
