Joe Manganiello is opening up about his split from ex-wife Sofia Vergara and he denies claims that she made in a recent interview.
The former couple announced their breakup almost exactly one year ago in July 2023 after seven years of marriage.
Sofia said in a January 2024 interview that their marriage ended because Joe wanted kids, and she didn’t want to have more.
“Well, I’m newly divorced from my second husband, who I was with for 10 years. My marriage broke up because my husband was younger,” Sofia said at the time. “He wanted to have kids and I didn’t want to be an old mom… I feel it’s not fair to the baby. 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.”
Joe responded to Sofia‘s comments in a new interview.
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“There’s been a lot said in the press about me wanting a family. That’s simply not true,” Joe told Men’s Journal.
“We did try to have a family for the first year and a half,” he said. “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.’ 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.”
Joe confirms that he did want to have kids, but that “wasn’t inevitably why everything ended. It’s because two people grew apart, and sometimes that happens.”
“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’? That’s never who I was,” Joe said.
Joe has since moved on and is happily in a new relationship!
