Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello may have gone their separate ways a few years ago, but there’s some renewed interest in their split thanks to Joe’s new memoir, Bloodlines. The former flames were married for seven years before they separated in 2023, and the True Blood alum is getting candid about the real reason he filed for divorce at the time. As for what’s gone down since then…it’s kind of a lot.
Scroll ahead if you want to catch up with a chronological rundown of what’s gone on with Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello, years after their divorce. According to court docs obtained by People, Joe filed for divorce from the Modern Family alum for irreconcilable differences, and listed their date of separation as July 2. "As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect for our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives.” During an interview with Spanish newspaper El País, Sofía claimed the reason she and Joe broke up had to do with them being in different places in their lives.
My marriage broke up because my husband was younger. He wanted to have kids and I didn’t want to be an old mom,” she said at the time. I respect whoever does it, but that’s not for me anymore.
I had a son at 19, who is now 32, and I’m ready to be a grandmother, not a mother. So, if love comes along, he has to come with [his own] children.” According to a filing obtained by People on February 9, 2024, Joe and Sofîa’s divorce was finalized as they “entered into a written agreement regarding their property and their marriage ... which is being or has been submitted to the court.” A year after they announced their breakup, Joe slammed Sofía’s previous claims that the relationship ended because he wanted kids and she didn’t. That’s simply not true,” he said in an interview with Men’s Journal.
"And we had a huge conversation right out of the gate during the first month we dated. I said, ‘If you’re done with kids, then I understand. Just tell me, and I’ll know what this is, and that’s okay.’ But that wasn’t the case with her.
And I swore to her that I would never leave if it didn’t work out. And I didn’t.” In an interview with People promoting his new memoir, Bloodlines, Joe revealed he had secretly been dealing with a nearly-fatal autoimmune illness since he first got married to Sofía in 2015. Years after he slammed his ex’s comments about not wanting to start a family, he admitted that he gave up the idea because of his illness.
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