“[That] wasn’t inevitably why everything ended,” the 47-year-old actor noted . “It’s because two people grew apart, and sometimes that happens.”
“It’s because two people grew apart, and sometimes that happens,” he told Men’s Journal. Getty Images for Critics Choice Association He confirmed, however, that they tried conceiving for about a year and a half. London Entertainment / SplashNews.com
He confirmed, however, that the pair did “try to have a family for the first year and a half” of their marriage.
He also claimed he and Vergara, 52, had a deep conversation about kids when they first began dating in 2014.
“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,'” he recalled saying. “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.”
In January, Vergara told El País that she and Manganiello broke up because he wanted kids and she didn’t. joemanganiello/Instagram “I didn’t want to be an old mom,” she reasoned. sofiavergara/Instagram
In January, Vergara claimed to El País that she and Manganiello called it quits because they were unable to agree on the future of their family.
“My marriage broke up because my husband was younger; he wanted to have kids, and I didn’t want to be an old mom,” she said.
Manganiello expressed his frustration about her statement in his chat with Men’s Health.
The “True Blood” alum told Men’s Health he didn’t appreciate his ex’s statement because it made it sound like he gave her an ultimatum: to have a child or end up single. “That’s never who I was,” he said. joemanganiello/Instagram
“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 said, defending himself.
He and the “Modern Family” alum announced in July 2023 that they were going their separate ways after seven years of marriage.
“We have made the difficult decision to divorce.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,” they told Page Six in a statement at the time.
The former couple wed in November 2015. Joe Manganiello/ Instagram They announced their separation in July 2023. GC Images
Meanwhile, a source close to the former couple told us they “had been growing apart for a while.”
Days after their breakup announcement, Page Six reported they separated over their differing views about starting a family. Our insider said Manganiello always wanted to be a father and his desire only grew as the years went on.
Vergara has a 32-year-old son named Manolo from her first marriage. CraSH/imageSPACE / MEGA In May, she said it would not be “fair” to have a baby at her age because of her life circumstances. WireImage
“I was a mother already. I know what it means to be a good mother or to try to be the best mother that you can, and that takes a lot of sacrifices, takes a lot of energy,” she explained.
“I didn’t think because of my career, the way I live my life, the way my marriage was, that it was fair to bring a kid to this world, and I’m not going to be able to give 100 percent.”
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