Aaron Rogers is tackling a major rumor about his family Rift the New York Jets quarterback who's allegedly been estranged from his parents and siblings since 2014 reveals in his new book out of the darkness the mystery of Aaron Rogers exactly what role ex-girlfriend Olivia mun played in the family split in an excerpt from his upcoming book shared by people The 40-Year-Old is now shedding light on what led to the rift revealing that his family issues were quote Dee rooted and that Olivia has nothing to do with all the years of estrangement Aaron and the actress began dating after reportedly meeting each other at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2014 however the couple broke up 3 years later enw has reached out to Olivia's rep for comment but is not yet heard back despite this new revelation Aaron's father Ed Rogers has previously suggested that The Newsroom actress was behind the estrangement with Ed confirming in a 2017 New York Times interview that the family's issues with Aaron started quote a few months after he began dating Olivia he noted that Aaron had not spoken to him his brothers or his mother Darla Rogers since 2014 adding quote Fame changes things however Olivia has long denied that her relationship with Aaron had anything to do with the estrangement telling Andy Cohen on a Serious XM show radio Andy in 2018 that Aaron had cut off some of his family before they even began dating and you know before he and I started dating um he hadn't spoken to the parents and one brother for like eight months before we started dating in fact the 44-year-old said she was the one who tried to encourage Aaron to make up with his family I remember my last day on The Newsroom when I was filming The Newsroom I spent the the time the day in my trailer just um encouraging him and to like have a like a just have an honest conversation with your parents and like just kind of you know bullet point stuff and then they had a really nice conversation and then they started coming out when my first year when I was in Green Bay in 2014 and then um you it just you know it just went South yeah I mean and that's that he tried well I would I just think it's really important to try to mend things in a family and I encourage that but at the at the end of the day I mean um it was out of your control well you know I I do believe like that family and fame and success can be really complicated if your their dreams are connected to your success [Music]