"Proud of your vulnerability dadda" - Alex Rodriguez's daughter Ella gets emotional over Yankees icon's unfiltered take on his "complex life"

MLB legend Alex Rodriguez has shown a very vulnerable side of himself in the HBO docuseries Alex vs ARod, which concluded with the airing of the third part last Thursday.

The docuseries discussed the many ups and downs in the three-time MVP's life, including his divorce with his ex-wife Cynthia, his issues with Performance Enhancing Drugs, and the subsequent bans and the unravelling of the person behind the baseball player.

In a promotional video for the third episode, branded as the "Story behind the Story", Alex Rodriguez opens up about these issues while acknowledging going to therapy as a result of his lifestyle. He stated his reluctance at wanting to talk about his life in previous years, but finally came to terms with it.

"One of my favorite lines is from Mike Francesa where he says, "ARod's a Shakespearean figure," ARod said. "And he was a great player, but he was also very flawed." After the suspension, I really had an opportunity to dig in with Doctor David and work on some of those things, which I'm still working on today.

"But this flawed person... baseball was in many ways my savior. But it took for me to fall from the top of the mountain as low as you can go to put myself back together."

His younger daughter, Ella, commended him for showcasing his raw and genuine self. She took to Instagram to post about her father, which was reshared by ARod to his stories section.

"I'm so proud of your vulnerability dadda! You are so admirable," she wrote.

Alex Rodriguez reshared his daughter Ella's Instagram story (Source: Instagram @arod)

Ella was born in April 2008, three and a half years after her elder sister Natasha was born. Their father and mother, Cynthia Scurtis, had tied the knot in 2002. However, a few months after Ella's birth, the couple divorced with Scurtis citing infedility in her filing.

Alex Rodriguez's ex-wife opened up about their divorce while being pregnant with Ella

Alex Rodriguez's divorce from ex-wife Cynthia Scurtis was widely discussed in the second part of the docuseries. In a public acceptance, A-Rod admitted to being at fault for his actions, while claiming that marriage to complicated.

“It was not like we were unhappy, but we were growing apart romantically," Rodriguez had said. "I don’t know. Marriage is challenging.”

Also appearing was his ex-wife, Cynthia opened up about the challenges of being pregnant with her secondborn, Ella, at the time in 2008 when the media speculation about Alex Rodriguez's alleged extramarital affair grew.

“We were together for about a year and I got pregnant with Ella, and then when Ella was first born [in April 2008], a very similar scenario and at that point, we got divorced,” Scurtis said.

Both Rodriguez and Scurtis have kept cordial relations despite their fallout. The two share parenthood of their daughters.