Shailene Woodley hints at reason for her breakup with Aaron Rodgers and how she recovered from her broken heart

Shailene Woodley has shared some very personal details about her breakup with New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

The 32-year-old Woodley hinted at some of the reasoning behind the high-profile split with the former Green Bay Packer and also explained what it took for her to recover from the broken heart she was left with.

Whilst discussing her upcoming series 'Three Women'. The program was filmed as her engagement to the 40-year-old footballer was coming to an end.

"Just a broken heart. A broken heart that healed and broke again," the actress told Bustle in an interview.

"I fell in love over and over with unavailability. I'm very open as a human. I love easy and I care easy, but I do not love lightly, and I do not care lightly," she said.

"It's really taken me a lot of time to understand that it's not on me to fix or heal or do anything about [a relationship] other than protect the deep care and love that I have for the world and for my people," she continued.

"Ultimately, that has helped me walk away without the need to understand why certain things didn't play out the way that I may have desired them to."

Woodley is still loving, but with boundaries

Her main focus now is motherhood, and she still views herself as a very loving person and she has other avenues for that love.

"I give all of myself. I used to be a person who, if you crossed me and disrespected that, would continue to give and give," she noted. "And now you cross me, I respectfully go, 'Thank you so much for that information. Have a beautiful life. I wish you well.' Not interested."