Danica Patrick’s breakup with Aaron Rodgers touched her deeply.
“I think we learn most about ourselves through relationships, but there’s nothing like sadness to really throw you into the deep end of it,” Patrick said Monday about the latest episode of National Geographic’s. Running Wild with Bear Grylls. “But I learned a lot and broke open as I was at the sad end, I felt so much joy in so many more cases and so many more unlikely places than I ever had, so it’s like my heart broke open on both sides of the spectrum. ‘
The former race car driver confirmed in July 2020 that she and the NFL fullback had ended their relationship after dating for more than two years.
Since their split, interim Danger! host Rodgers began a striking romance with actress Shailene Woodley. They announced their engagement in February.
Patrick, meanwhile, turned to her family.
“[My dad is] always super proud of me, “she told Grylls.” My mother too. My sister. I’m really happy to have a family that is very supportive. You need to have someone with whom you can fall apart, you know? ‘
In March, the host of the Pretty intense podcast explained her mindset about future relationships.
‘You know what you do not want, so you know what you are doing, and perhaps it is not necessarily that their work has been cut out for them, but that they are going to be an extremely high quality person with lots of boxes to look after go, ‘she said The Tamron Hall Show. “It’s not like there are boxes to check, it’s just that I know what I want now and that I’m not willing to compromise, to bend so much, is it?”
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