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Joe Manganiello says desire to have kids wasn’t ‘inevitably’ why Sofía Vergara marriage ended

Joe Manganiello is finally sharing his side of the story.

The “True Blood” alum, who settled his divorce from Sofía Vergara in February, denied her claim that they split because he wanted kids and she didn’t in a new interview with Men’s Journal.

“[That] wasn’t inevitably why everything ended,” the 47-year-old actor noted. “It’s because two people grew apart, and sometimes that happens.”

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 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.