Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers hid engagement for months

Shailene Woodley loved protecting her engagement to Aaron Rodgers a secret “for months and months.”

The “Massive Little Lies” star, 29, admitted in a brand new interview that she and the Inexperienced Bay Packers quarterback, 37, saved the information between the 2 of them for so long as attainable.

“Once we introduced that we have been engaged, we needed to try this solely as a result of we didn’t need another person to do it earlier than we did,” Woodley told the Hollywood Reporter in her cowl story printed Friday.

“And we didn’t do it for months and months after we had develop into engaged, however the response to it was actually rather a lot, and so we have been like, ‘Let’s simply politely decline [to talk about the relationship] for a short while and dwell in our little bubble.’”

The couple first sparked relationship rumors in July 2020, however Rodgers didn’t announce their engagement till February. Even then, he didn’t identify Woodley as his fiancée.

Final month, the actress informed Form that she and the NFL participant moved in together fairly shortly and “jumped in headfirst and received a few of the sticky bits out of the way in which early.”

Whereas Woodley’s engagement information is now on the market, she informed the Hollywood Reporter she has a “fairly debilitating” well being situation that she is content material protecting a non-public matter.

“I’m on the tail finish of it, which may be very thrilling, but it surely’s an fascinating factor, going by way of one thing so bodily dominating whereas additionally having so many individuals take note of the alternatives you make, the stuff you say, what you do, what you appear like,” she mentioned. “It spun me out for some time. You are feeling so extremely remoted and alone. Except somebody can see that you’ve a damaged arm or a damaged leg, it’s actually tough for folks to narrate to the ache that you just’re experiencing when it’s a silent, quiet and invisible ache.”