Joe Manganiello Says Sofía Vergara's Reason for Divorce Is "Simply Not True"
Joe Manganiello is disputing his ex-wife, Sofia Vergara's, claims about their divorce.https://t.co/RZV32OE4md
- Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) July 16, 2024
Joe Manganiello is breaking his silence about why he and his ex-wife Sofía Vergara decided to divorce after seven years of marriage.
At the time, Sofia said, "My marriage broke up because my husband was younger; he wanted to have kids and I didn’t want to be an old mom," Vergara explained.. "I feel it’s not fair to the baby. I respect whoever does it, but that’s not for me anymore."
But now, in a new interview with Men's Journal (published on July 16), Manganiello is addressing Vergara's claims, saying they were "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," he recalled. "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."
While Manganiello did want to have children, he said that their disagreement "wasn't inevitably why everything ended."
"It's because two people grew apart, and sometimes that happens," he explained, sharing his frustrations with how the framing of their separation had affected public perceptions of his character.
“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," he added.
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