Shailene Woodley was so disappointed after her split from Aaron Rodgers that “scooping horse manure” cheered her up
The DSM-5 lists sudden weight changes, feelings of worthlessness or guilt, sleep disturbances, and loss of interest or pleasure among the criteria for diagnosing clinical depression. Because Shailene WoodleyAll you need to know is just look at a tree.
“I know I’m depressed when I look at a tree and feel nothing,” she said sadly. interview with Outside magazine was published Tuesday in honor of the publication’s selection of her as Outsider of the Year. “It was the lowest of my life.”
The actor seemed to be referring to her aftermath 2022 broke up with her fiancé Aaron Rodgersunless something else happened that caused her to tell the magazine she was down after she had “a really terrible, traumatic thing happen in early 2022.”
“I felt like I had lost my soul, myself, my happiness, my joy,” she said of the incident. “I really understand depression and anxiety and like complete mental detachment.”
She also appears to have lost some of her camping gear in the lynching: “I had to stop at REI and buy a new sleeping pad,” she said in an interview centered around a night of camping and take photos. “I left my old one to my ex.”
The stylist for that photo shoot, Woodley’s friend Kris Zerois also the person Woodley credits with pulling her out of the landfill, sometimes by literally disposing of…the landfill.
“Sometimes I get so angry with her,” Woodley said of Zero, who she said woke her up by playing loud music every day for six months after the breakup. “But then we went surfing and for ten minutes that day I thought life might be okay again. Then the depression returned and she said, ‘We’re volunteering at the horse farm!’ And we’ll find some random fucking horse farm, and we’ll clean up the horse manure. We cleaned the horses’ hooves and groomed them, and for 20 minutes that day, I thought life was going to be okay again. And then the depression returned and she woke me up the next morning and said, ‘Let’s go for a hike, take trash bags and clean up the trash!’”
Of course, it takes more than just a woman and horse-related manual labor to deal with depression—Woodley has also experienced Three womenShowtime series with which she co-stars Betty Gilpin, DeWanda is wiseAnd Gabrielle Creevey and aired earlier this year. In January 2023, Woodley told Net-A-Porter that she expressed some emotions surrounding her grief on set.
“Three women I feel like it’s very important—I think mainly because it’s very important to me,” she said. “I feel honored to be a part of it, because it really gave me a North Star at a time when my compass…calibration was non-existent.”
“It was difficult to film because I was going through the darkest, most difficult time of my life; It was winter in New York and my personal life was terrible, so it was like one big bubble of pain for eight months,” she said. “I’m grateful that at least I can go to work and cry and process my emotions through my character.”
