Modern Family Star Sofia Vergara Reveals Reason For Divorce With Joe Manganiello

Modern Family fame Sofia Vergara has broken her silence on her much-public divorce from actor Joe Manganiello. Sofia Vergara who got married to Joe in 2015, parted ways with her former partner last year in September. Rumours of their alleged split-up surfaced when Sofia was seen celebrating her 51st birthday in Italy without Joe and sans a wedding ring. In July 2023, the Hot Pursuit actress released a joint statement with Joe, announcing their separation. Sofia refused to divulge any details about the reason for their divorce, until now. In an interaction with a media outlet, the actress revealed that she and Joe went separate ways because she did not want to be an “old mom”.

During a conversation with Spanish newspaper El Pais, Sofia Vergara shed light on her and Joe Manganiello’s contrasting opinions of expanding 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. I feel it’s not fair to the baby. I respect whoever does it, but that’s not for me anymore,” she said. Sofia who was previously married to her high school sweetheart Joe Gonzalez in 1991 shares a son Manolo Gonzalez Vergara with him. Speaking about the same, the actress continued, “I had a son at 19, who is now 32, and I’m ready to be a grandmother, not a mother. So, if love comes along, he has to come with (his own) children.”

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Sofia Vergara added that she had already hit “menopause” and it was “the natural way of things.” She explained that when his son becomes a father and he brings his baby to her after some time she will “give it back to him and go on with” her life. “That’s what I have to do,” she said.

In the joint statement released by Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello during their divorce, the former pair wrote, “As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect for our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives.” Later on, in the divorce documents obtained by People magazine, Joe cited the “irreconcilable differences” between him and Sofia  to be the reason for the divorce.