According to a new biography of the football
star, Aaron Rodgers's parents blamed their son for severing touch with them nine years ago,
which happened when he was dating Olivia Munn. 'Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron
Rodgers', authored by sports journalist Ian O'Connor, states that Ed and Darla Rodgers
believed the actress was the 'primary culprit' behind their family strife, which started in
2014 when she started dating their second son. The fact that Munn, now 44,
was having sex with Rodgers, 40, prior to marriage disgusted Darla, a
devoted Christian. When Munn disclosed in interviews that they didn't do it on game
days, she became even more infuriated. "Given her fervent religious beliefs, Aaron's mother disapproved of premarital
sex and was against her middle child—even as an NFL player—sharing a hotel room
with his girlfriend," writes O'Connor. "Darla was not amused by Munn's joke
about oral sex during an interview or by her public discussion of her sex life
with Aaron right before that Buffalo loss." In the alleged interview, Munn
was asked by host Andy Cohen on "Watch What Happens Live" in December 2014 if she had slept with the quarterback for
the Green Bay Packers on game days. 'No, we don't,' she shot back. Not during
the days of the games. It simply doesn't happen since there are other things
to prioritize; there isn't a rule. Munn did, however, mention that they
sometimes have sex after Packers games. "It depends on the game's lateness."I make
every effort to have sex," she remarked. Munn was "saying all that s*** and it pissed off
Darla, really pissed her off," a source claimed. Munn had another interview with Cohen, but
this time Ed and Darla took issue with her assertion that she had tried to persuade
him to make amends with his parents. "It's a lie," declared Ed. After a game in Tampa, Munn, who Aaron
split up with in 2017, went on an "angry rant" with his parents about not being able to
see Rodgers, which further heightened tensions. That year, Munni Made clear she did
not want [Rodgers' parents] meeting them or attending the game,' according to
O'Connor. Rodgers's parents had intended to attend the game while visiting Disney World. 'Ed and Darla stated that they had been
attending Aaron's games since he was a kid and did not need her permission to
continue to do so,' the book claims. 'You haven't been on the scene very long,' Ed said to Munn at the time. You're merely his
romantic partner. We are his parents. Though they never received an apology
call from Rogers for Munn's remarks, his parents had wanted to hear from him. Upon arriving in Tampa, they were greeted
by an email he had sent to relatives, which basically read, 'Don't
assault the woman I love.' Sports writer for the New York Post O'Connor
claims that Darla and Ed were "sent to the Island" and that they wouldn't talk
to their son again for nine years. However, O'Connor claims that Munn
"did not help her own cause," citing a specific episode that caused rifts
between her and Rodgers' parents. O'Connor says Munn 'insulted' them by returning Christmas presents that Ed and Darla
had purchased for her and their kid. Ed thought Rodgers had sent him a
birthday present until he opened the very regrettable coincidence that they
showed up at the house on his birthday. O'Connor suggests that Rodgers may have
broken off his relationship with his parents because he believed his kindness
toward them was being "taken for granted." Munn 'agreed' with that observation, believing his family had no right to 'do
any celebrity and wealth chasing via him'. Given that Munn was a "presence in her own
right" and that Rodgers' mother was "strong and unyielding," the player for the New York
Jets, Aaron Rodgers, seemed to get into it. However, Munn was eventually
identified by Ed and Darla as the "prime culprit in the family division." Having 'nothing to do' with the
intense conflict with his parents, Rodgers claims in the book
that he never accepted this. 'I have questions about why people
feel the need to talk about it, because it's like a game of
poker,' he said to O'Connor. You don't need to bluff when you have all
the cards. They can only make up stories, but in the end, they have to face the facts. Three years after their breakup, in 2020, Munn gave rise to rumors that she was
disparaging Rodgers's sexual prowess in an interview by implying that she had staged
orgasms with an unidentified ex-boyfriend. Munn declared: "These guys are out there feeling so f**king confident that I swear to God
I regret every time I have fake moaned." "There's one in particular that was the
worst at simply having sex," I said. Indeed, Munn recalled, "I asked him once,
'Why don't you ever go down, but by the way, I don't want you to,' after he had fallen on
me twice in the years that we were together." O'Neil notes that although Rodgers
broke up with Destiny Newton in 2013, his parents had thought their
middle child would have wed her. "We all loved her," remarked a buddy of the
legendary NFL player. Destiny was someone we knew. O'Connor said, "She would
have kept the crew tighter." The acquaintance claimed Munn shouldn't be held solely responsible for the
discord inside the Rodgers family. The acquaintance claimed that the quarterback
had banished friends in addition to his family and had once conducted a "clean
sweep" of those close to him. According to O'Connor, Rodgers
also changed agencies and "never needed much help in determining
when to end a relationship." "You get on his bad side, you cross him once, you
are dead to him," a family friend reportedly said. Some believed Munn had 'opened Rodgers's eyes'
to the reality that he was being used by some. In an interview, Rodgers stated that
she provided him with "stability off the field," which he felt meant "so much." This year, Munn—who previously starred
in HBO series The Newsroom and The Daily Show—married 41-year-old comedian John Mulaney,
with whom she has a 2-year-old son named Malcolm. According to reports from 2023, Rodgers is having
a "casual" relationship with model Mallory Edens, who happens to be the daughter of Wes Edens, the
owner of the Milwaukee Bucks and Aston Villa.