Joe Manganiello is sharing what he says is the actual cause for his divorce with Sofía Vergara.
The previous couple referred to as it quits final summer season after seven years. Whereas Vergara stated in an interview this yr that their marriage ended as a result of Manganiello “wanted to have kids” and he or she didn’t, the “Magic Mike” star stated Tuesday that that’s “simply not true.”
“There’s been a lot said in the press about me wanting a family,” Manganiello informed Males’s Journal in an interview printed Tuesday. “That’s simply not true. We did try to have a family for the first year and a half. 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 OK,’” the 47-year-old continued. “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.”
Vergara, in the meantime, explicitly informed El País in January that youngsters had been a dealbreaker.
The “Modern Family” star defined on the time that her marriage ended as a result of Manganiello “was younger” and he or she “didn’t want to be an old mom.” The 52-year-old, who had her first and solely youngster in 1991, stated she was “ready to be a grandmother, not a mother.”
Manganiello admitted to wanting kids Tuesday, however stated this “wasn’t inevitably why everything ended” and that he and his ex-wife merely “grew apart.”
The actor, who first began courting Vergara in 2014, stated it’s been arduous to look at sure narratives flourish.
“To be painted as if I had some sort of midlife crisis, and after nine years, turned to somebody and gave them an ultimatum of, ‘Do this potentially unhealthy thing to your body, or else I’m gone’?” Manganiello informed Males’s Journal. “That’s never who I was.”
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The previous couple has solid forward, nonetheless. Manganiello, who informed Males’s Journal he’s breaking private information within the gymnasium and is the “biggest I’d ever been,” is courting mannequin Caitlin O’Connor and executive-producing the upcoming season of “Deal or No Deal Island.”
Vergara discovered a brand new accomplice herself, in the meantime, and is reportedly courting orthopedic surgeon Justin Saliman. The “Griselda” star confessed in November that she’s had a “very difficult year,” however stated that she was wanting ahead to 2024.
“I don’t know if there’s such a thing as a fresh start at 51,” Vergara informed Folks on the time. “I don’t know if I’m fresh anymore, but I’m just excited.”
