Danica Patrick got candid about all her past relationships — and revealed if she remains in touch with any of her exes.
“I am personally of the camp that if I’ve been with you in that way, like, I love you, I care about you, I don’t see you as a friend,” Patrick, 43, explained on a November episode of her “Pretty Intense” podcast with guest Trevor Hanson. “If it was a serious [relationship], I’m probably never gonna speak to you again, you know?”
Elsewhere in the episode, the former race car driver talked about how she doesn’t “know when to let go” of relationships.
“I’m one of those people that’s just like, whatever it takes. … I see the good in them. I can sense their essence,” Patrick explained. “I know who they are. I’m not dating potential. But everybody sees someone’s potential, right?”
Patrick went on to discuss how she ends up in relationships with people who have an “avoidant attachment” style all too often.
“Everything seemed fine, or it seemed solvable,” she said. “Or like, how about you tell me what the problem was, instead of just leaving and then telling me and being like, ‘We didn’t have a chance to solve this. You let it fail us, because you didn’t even say anything.”
Hanson, 33, told Patrick that he could tell she had “some frustration there” and “probably lived that,” to which she agreed.
“I literally picture someone while I’m saying these things,” she recalled. “I am a civilian expert on attachment. I always find out about them after it’s over. That’s the frustrating part. And I don’t know why, but when I’m in it, you’re in it, and then it’s like, I don’t know if it’s because I’m not thinking about it ending. … It’s so wild.”
Patrick explained that “as soon as” a relationship ends she starts to “figure things out” about why things went wrong.
“I’m like, ‘Oh, wow. How did I not see that?’” she said. “Like, it was within days after, I was like, ‘Oh, my God. He was a narcissist.’ Like, check every box. He was a fearful avoidant.”
Patrick has had her fair share of heartbreaks. The podcast host was married to physical therapist Paul Edward Hospenthal from 2005 to 2012. She then dated NASCAR star Ricky Stenhouse Jr. from 2012 to 2017 before moving on with Aaron Rodgers from 2018 to 2020. After her split from Rodgers, 42, Patrick was briefly linked to Carter Comstock from 2021 to 2022.
In June, Patrick confirmed that she was not seeing anyone at that moment.
“Yeah,” Patrick said when asked if she was single during an appearance on the “Believe in the Good” podcast before host Haley Dillon added, “I’m gonna be interested to see who’s sliding into my DMs to get to your DMs.”
Patrick laughed off Dillon’s comment, joking, “That makes me screwed, so screwed. Not literally either.”
While Patrick is not currently seeing anyone, she has continued to open up about how some of the relationships she was in took a toll on her emotionally — especially when she was dating Rodgers.
“[The] nature of the relationship was emotionally abusive,” Patrick claimed on an episode on “The Sage Steele Show” podcast in May, adding that Rogers “wore [her] down to nothing.”
Although the breakup was incredibly painful for her, Patrick said it gave her the “greatest gift”: herself.
“I was, like, ‘Wow.’ It gave me the greatest gift of how much I needed to show up for myself and take care of myself,” she said.
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