Joe Manganiello and Sofia Vergara: What really led to the separation?

So why did Sofía Vergara (52) and Joe Manganiello (47) really split up? The two actors announced in July 2023 that their marriage had failed after seven years. Vergara justified the split with their different ideas about family planning: the actress did not want any more children, but her ex-husband, who is five years younger, did. Manganiello has now spoken out and reported his side of things.

The couple had a clarifying conversation right at the beginning of their relationship and then tried to start a family for about a year and a half. “I said: ‘If you’re done with children, then I understand. Just tell me, then I’ll know what it is and that’s okay.’ But that wasn’t the case with her. And I swore to her that I would never leave her if it didn’t work out. And I didn’t,” the American stressed.

“Two people have grown apart”

Although he wanted children, this disagreement was “not necessarily the reason for the end.” “Two people grew apart, and that happens sometimes,” Joe Manganiello said, explaining the divorce instead.

He doesn’t like the way his ex-wife has made him look with her claim. “It’s like I had some kind of midlife crisis and after nine years I was given an ultimatum: ‘Do this potentially unhealthy thing with your body or I’m gone.’ I’ve never been like that,” the “Magic Mike” actor fumed.

Sofía Vergara already has a son

With his comments, Manganiello is referring to an interview that his ex-wife gave six months ago. “My marriage fell apart because my husband was younger. He wanted to have children and I didn’t want to be an old mother,” she said at the time.

Sofía Vergara is already the mother of her 32-year-old son Manolo, who was born from her relationship with her childhood sweetheart Joe Gonzalez. She respects anyone who has a child at her age – but for her personally, she feels it is “not fair to the baby,” she explained in the interview.