Shailene Woodley is getting support from fans and others who say it’s wrong to blame the actor for Aaron Rodgers’ reported choices when it comes to COVID-19, not getting vaccinated, attempting to pass off a homeopathic treatment as a substitute, apparently lying to the media and possibly violating NFL safety protocols for unvaccinated players.
“Blaming Shailene Woodley for Aaron Rodgers’ choices is a weirdo misogynistic move,” wrote sports podcaster Ti Windisch on Twitter. “Don’t do that. I know GB fans have been trying to pin Packer problems on his significant others for years now, but Rodgers is a big boy who makes his own decisions.”
Windisch’s tweet is among other supportive Woodley comments that popped up on social media Wednesday after news broke that her fiancé, the star Green Bay Packers quarterback, not only tested positive for COVID-19, but was unvaccinated and been publicly “duplicitous” about his status, the Washington Post said.
The positive test, plus Rodgers’ unvaccinated status, means he must isolate for at least 10 days and miss Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs. He’s also questionable for the Nov. 14 game against the Seattle Seahawks.
“I think Rodgers is a diva,” said The Ringer founder Bill Simmons. “I think he’s been a diva the last couple of years. I think the way he handled this offseason was very diva-ish.”
It also emerged Wednesday that the Packers and NFL knew their reigning league MVP, 37, was unvaccinated because he had unsuccessfully petitioned the league to accept an alternative treatment from his personal doctor as a COVID-19 vaccination. The alternative treatment involved having his antibodies boosted during offseason, according to Sports Illustrated.
It’s this alternative treatment that put the spotlight on Woodley, 29. The “Big Little Lies” star has developed a reputation for being into natural living, which includes a preference for homemade herbal remedies and alternative, non-Western medicines, as she revealed in several 2014 interviews.
Woodley told Flaunt magazine: “I make my own medicines; I don’t get those from doctors. I make my own cheese and forage wild foods and identify wild plants. It’s an entire lifestyle. It’s appealing to my soul.”
Woodley additionally talked to Into the Gloss magazine about the benefits of using Vitamin D to alleviate yeast infections and “genital issues,” and the wonders of eating clay.
“I’ve discovered that clay is great for you because your body doesn’t absorb it, and it apparently provides a negative charge, so it bonds to negative isotopes,” Woodley told Into the Gloss. “And, this is crazy: it also helps clean heavy metals out of your body.”
Such disclosures prompted some jokes at Woodley’s expense.
Shailene Woodley cooking up a covid "vaccine" for Aaron Rodgers pic.twitter.com/3mM4CL1CIU
— alex goedken (@alexanderflam) November 3, 2021
I don’t understand how Aaron Rodgers tested positive for COVID when Shailene Woodley’s homemade vaccine was guaranteed to be effective
— Max Singer (@maxwellsing) November 3, 2021
They also fueled speculation that Woodley had exercised influence over Rodgers, even though he is eight years her senior.
Woodley’s situation, however, wasn’t helped by the fact that she’s good friends of Miles Teller, the actor who was at the center of a fierce Hollywood debate this summer over performers who have expressed skepticism about the COVID-19 vaccine or who are refusing to be vaccinated.
Teller caused headaches on the set of his new TV series by talking down vaccines and by refusing to be vaccinated, the Daily Mail reported. His positive COVID test in late July forced production to halt on the Los Angeles set of “The Offer,” a Paramount+ series about the making of “The Godfather.” The work stoppage cost the production company millions of dollars, the Daily Mail said.
Rodgers’ association with Teller, via Woodley, also raised questions about whether the NFL player also shares Teller’s reported anti-vaccine views.
Rodgers and Woodley vacationed with Teller and his wife, model Keleigh Sperry, in the spring, in the months after Rodgers and Woodley announced they had begun dating and became secretly engaged while in pandemic lockdown. The celebrity foursome were happy to publicize their lavish, fun-filled travels to the Kentucky Derby in April and Maui in late May.
Among those looking at the nexus of Woodley/Teller/Rodgers, questions arose about whether she is vaccinated. The actress hasn’t issued any statement on the matter, but Shailene Woodley Updates, a popular Twitter fan account, argued that she must be vaccinated because she’s currently working on a production, the Showtime drama series, “Three Women,” that has a “mandatory vaccine policy.”
“How about making the grown a– man in this accountable for his own decisions?” the account asked.
FYI Shailene Woodley IS vaccinated, considering the production for the show she’s currently filming has a mandatory vaccination policy. pic.twitter.com/IDEc9vzn59
— Shailene Woodley Updates (@PlanetShailene) November 3, 2021
Another issue regarding Woodley and Rodgers is that it’s not known how much time she’s been spending with him lately. In early September, Rodgers told Haute Living magazine that they would probably be spending up to four months apart because of his playing season and because she needed to get back to work one projects delayed by the pandemic. Rodgers said he thought the separation would be a “good thing” for both of them.
So that may mean Rodgers won’t have company for his 10-day isolation. Meanwhile, he is left to face other questions about his unvaccinated status, including whether he attempted to mislead reporters about the issue when he told them in August that he had “been immunized.”
Rodgers and the Packers face inquiries into whether he adequately followed COVID-19 protocols, USA Today reported.
Under these protocols, which were approved by the NFL and NFL Players Association over the summer, players are not required to be vaccinated, but unvaccinated players must wear masks “at all times” when inside their club’s facility. They also are subject to daily COVID testing, are barred from coming within 6 feet of other unvaccinated players while traveling or eating meals, and they face fines if they go to a club, indoor concert, house party or other off-the-field setting with more than 15 people.
USA Today, citing a source with knowledge of the situation, said that Rodgers has been tested for COVID-19 on a daily basis, but USA Today also reported that the quarterback had not worn a mask while speaking to members of the media at news conferences, which are held inside the team facility. Rogers also was seen maskless in a widely shared video of him attending a Halloween party over the weekend with other Packers players.
Coming off Thursday night's win the #Packers enjoying Halloween weekend with a costume party@AaronRodgers12 @rcobb18 @DavidBakhtiari had real good ones
Bye week not until December & with players injured or in COVID protocol tried to take advantage of this rare little time off pic.twitter.com/gHt9nGq7PB
— Cody Krupp (@CodyWKrupp) November 1, 2021
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