The Beef Between Olivia Munn and Aaron Rodgers' Parents Goes Beyond Her Sex Jokes, as They Claim She Told Them to Stay Away From His Games After His Worst Performance

Jerry Thornton8/13/2024 8:00 PM

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You might think that life as a Super Bowl champion, first ballot Hall of Famer and using your lofty position to attract one of the most sexually desirable actresses in Hollywood would be all cream cheese. Living the dream of every red-blooded boy. And the life of that great American icon, The Football Hero.

But there's no situation in this life so perfect that it can't be complicated by family. No matter how much you love your loved ones, the family can make all your relationships go pear-shaped in zero time flat.

Consider the case of Aaron Rodgers' family dynamic, which has been famously dysfunctional for a decade or more. Has reportedly affected his dating life:

And that dysfunction is only getting more dysfunctiony once this book is released. Because in the parts that have been released so far, the knives are most definitely out between Munn and the Rodgers:

NY Post - Six years after Olivia Munn offered her take on ex-boyfriend Aaron Rodgers’ family feud, the comments continue to rub the Jets quarterback’s parents, Ed and Darla Rodgers, the wrong way.
Munn, who dated the four-time NFL MVP for three years and was long rumored to be a point of contention within the Rodgers unit, addressed the “complicated” dynamics back in 2018 on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy — remarks patriarch Ed believes were echoed to make a certain party “look good.”
“She just made stuff up to make herself look good,” Ed said in former Post columnist Ian O’Connor’s forthcoming book, “OUT OF THE DARKNESS: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers,” out Aug. 20. “She said the family was dysfunctional before she met Aaron, which is bull. We were going to all of his games; we were staying at his house. We had a great relationship. Nothing bad was going on.” …
“[W]hen I was filming the ‘The Newsroom,’ I spent the day in my trailer just encouraging him to have an honest conversation with your parents,” Munn said. “… They had a really nice conversation and then they started coming out my first year when I was in Green Bay in 2014.”
Although Ed and Darla visited Rodgers “before an early-December home game and enjoyed a pleasant conversation with the actress” that year, sources relayed to O’Connor that following a disastrous outing by the quarterback in Buffalo, “Munn called Ed and Darla that night and blindsided them with an angry rant about their plans to see Aaron again when the Packers played at Tampa Bay before Christmas.”

Again I say, families are complicated. Infinitely so. But having your son's girlfriend sit around with Andy Cohen spilling the tea about game day sex and blow jobs is something a superstar's parents should be able to handle. Even hinting that your pride and joy might be Joe Montana between the lines but he's Ryan Leaf between the sheets:

… is something you can deal with.

But blaming a bad game on Mom and Dad coming to the game? And demanding they stay away from the next one, like they're jinxes? That's more than any sports parents should be subjected to.

By way of explanation, that December, 2014 game at Buffalo represents the statistical worst game of Rodgers the Younger's 224 career starts. Even to this day. A 17-of-42, 40.5 comp %, 185 yards, 0 TDs, 2 INTs, 34.3 passer rating debacle in a 21-13 loss. Even though Green Bay came in 10-3, winners of their last five and nine of their previous 10 (on their way to an NFC championship game berth), and the Bills were 7-6.

These games happen to the best of them. Even the 2014 Packers, who had the best offense in the league. You watch the film, learn from your mistakes, clean up what you have to, and move on. But not, apparently, if you're Olivia Munn. She believed it was Mr. & Mrs. Rodgers' fault. That their very presence was to blame. Like they're parental version of Mush from A Bronx Tale. And that's hard for any family to forgive or forget.

That was 10 years ago, and the beef has still not been squashed between all the parties involved. ARod is still estranged from his parents, even though Munn is long since out of his life, married to John Mulvaney, and has started a family of her own. Proving that not only are families hard to deal with sometimes, but that dating Hollywood smokeshows is not always what it's cracked up to be, either. Not even this precious jewel: