It has been eight years since Jordan and JoJo Fletcher’s season of actuality relationship collection The Bachelorette aired the soiled laundry between the NFL quarterback and his brother.

“It wasn’t like I used to be tremendous duper shut with all people within the household. I used to be shut with my little brother,” Aaron mentioned of Jordan on the docuseries which began streaming on Tuesday, December 17.

“However really, it goes again to stuff from highschool that sort of made me really feel distant. Stuff in faculty, stuff post-college.”

Forty-one-year-old Aaron performed soccer along with his 36-year-old brother whereas in faculty. Aaron was drafted within the first spherical by the Inexperienced Bay Packers in 2005. Jordan, who was a quarterback at Vanderbilt College, had a profitable profession of his personal earlier than being launched by three NFL groups.

Aaron admitted that he wished to remain “quiet” about their household points.

“I believed the easiest way to do it was simply don’t speak about it publicly.”

Nonetheless, that concept did not final lengthy as soon as Jordan signed up for The Bachelorette in 2016. He made it to Hometowns, which put their household’s dynamic on show for all the nation.

When Jordan sat down for dinner with JoJo and his household, the editors made it clear that there have been two empty seats from the desk.

“And what do they do? They go on a bulls–t present and go away two empty chairs,” Aaron continued on the Netflix collection.

Aaron — who was relationship Olivia Munn on the time — was disillusioned on the choice as a result of, in keeping with him, he wasn’t really invited to the dinner within the first place.

“All of them agreed this was a very good factor to do, to go away two empty chairs at a silly relationship present that my brother simply went on to get well-known — his phrases, not mine. That he ended up successful,” Aaron mentioned.

“However a dinner that was in the course of the season, I used to be by no means requested to go to. Not that I’d’ve gone.”

Jordan ended up successful the collection, happening to marry JoJo in 2022, whereas Aaron and Jordan’s relationship continues to be strained.

“Folks ask me, ‘Is there hope for reconciliation?’ I say, ‘Yeah in fact. In fact,’” Aaron mentioned on his Netflix present. “I do not need them to fail, to wrestle, to have any strife or points. I do not want any sick will on them in any respect. It’s extra like this — we’re simply completely different steps on a timeline of our personal journeys.”

Aaron additionally opened up about his relationship along with his mother and father, Ed and Darla Rodgers.

“I used to be very lucky after I was a child to have mother and father who believed I had a really low ache tolerance,” the soccer star mentioned.

“There’s some classes that had been onerous to study as a toddler, and also you react otherwise you adapt to no matter it’s. I felt like there was many instances the place my mother and father felt like I used to be a bit mushy. And due to that, I made positive I used to be the hardest motherf–ker that I knew.”

Whereas he did go on to Tremendous Bowl-winning fame, he admitted that it got here at a price.

“Once I turned actual well-known, relations mentioned, ‘Your life is simply too large. We’d like you to be smaller. Be smaller, like, do not speak about your life,’” he mentioned. “It all the time damage me as a result of I simply really feel like, you do not see me. And in order I discovered my voice to sort of query issues, I additionally discovered doing issues that, in comparison with what I grew up in, can be thought-about another way of life.”

All three episodes of Aaron Rodgers: Enigma are presently streaming on Netflix.