Sofia Vergara reveals why her marriage to Joe Manganiello ended after seven years

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Sofia Vergara has lastly revealed why her marriage to Joe Manganiello ended after seven years.

The Modern Family star, 51, just lately opened up about her cut up from the Magic Mike actor, 47, in an interview with Spanish newspaper El País on 15 January. Back in July 2023, representatives for the previous couple issued a press release to Page Six about their separation.

“We have made the difficult decision to divorce,” Vergara and Manganiello mentioned within the assertion. “As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect of our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives.”

Two days later, Manganiello filed for divorce and cited “irreconcilable differences” as the rationale for the couple’s cut up. Speaking to El País, Vergara confirmed hypothesis that the pair had “conflicting opinions” about having youngsters, which led to their divorce.

“I’m newly divorced from my second husband, who I was with for 10 years. 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 advised the outlet.

While the America’s Got Talent choose is already a mom to son Manolo Gonzalez Vergara from a earlier marriage, she defined that having one other youngster was not within the playing cards for her. “I feel it’s not fair to the baby,” she continued. “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.”

Vergara went on to admit that if “love comes along” sooner or later, then whoever she dates “has to come with” his personal youngsters.

“I’m almost in menopause; it’s the natural way of things,” she added. “When my son becomes a dad, let him bring the baby to me for a while and then I’ll give it back to him and go on with my life; that’s what I have to do.”

Prior to her relationship with Manganiello, the Colombian-American actor married her highschool sweetheart, Joe Gonzalez, at age 18. They welcomed their son Manolo in September 1991, earlier than divorcing in 1993.

Vergara and Manganiello first met in May 2014 whereas attending the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. They went on their first date in June of that 12 months whereas Vergara was filming Hot Pursuit, Manganiello recalled in an interview with Haute Living in 2015. He acknowledged that they obtained to know one another in a short while, earlier than he “went and got a ring and made it official” in December 2014.

In 2018, three years after getting married, Manganiello advised Cigar Aficionado that the largest adjustment for him was “coming to grips with the idea that someone who is not related to you could possibly love you that much”.

“She was it for me,” he mentioned, including: “People say things like: ‘Marriage and relationships are work.’ But it’s not. Life is hard. Having somebody to help you deal with it is the greatest thing that ever happened.”

Manganiello is reportedly relationship 33-year-old actor Caitlin O’Connor.