Joe Manganiello Denies Sofía Vergara’s Divorce Claims: “That’s Simply Not True” He give his rare reasons

Joe feels like he’s been “painted” like he’s had “some sort of midlife crisis.”

Joe Manganiello just made some rare comments about his divorce from Sofía Vergara, specifically calling her claims about the reason they split “simply untrue.” To rewind for a moment, Sofía said the following to El País back in January:

“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. 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. So, if love comes along, he has to come with [his own] children.”

Meanwhile, Joe just told Men’s Journal “There’s been a lot said in the press about me wanting a family,” and said of Sofia’s El País comments “That’s simply not true.”

“We did try to have a family for the first year and a half,” he added. “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 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.”

The actor added that his desire to have kids “wasn’t inevitably why everything ended. It’s because two people grew apart, and sometimes that happens.” He then said “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.”

Doesn’t look like Sofía has responded to Joe’s comments, but stay tuned I guess!