Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello may have gone their separate ways a few years ago, but there’s some new interest in their split thanks to Joe’s new memoir, Bloodiness. The former flames were married for seven years before separating in 2023, and true Blood Alum is talking openly about this Real At that time he had filed for divorce.
As for what’s gone down since then…it’s a lot. Scroll ahead if you want a chronological breakdown of what happened to Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello years after their divorce.
2 July 2023
Joe files for divorce from Sofia
According to documents received by the court PeopleJoe filed for divorce modern Family alum for irreconcilable differences, and the date of their separation was reported as July 2.
17 July 2023
They announce their split to the public
“We have made the difficult decision to divorce,” the former exes said in a statement. page six In those days. “As two people who love and care for each other very much, we politely ask that our privacy be respected at this time as we enter this new phase of our lives.”
15 January 2024
Sophia revealed the reason behind her divorce during an interview.
During an interview with a Spanish newspaper el paisSophia claimed that the reason she and Joe split was due to them being at different places in their lives.
“I was recently divorced from my second husband, who I was with for 10 years. My marriage broke up because my husband was young. He wanted to have kids and I didn’t want to be an old mom,” she said at the time. “I think it’s not fair to the child. I respect whoever does that, but it’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, it has to come along [his own] Children.”
9 February 2024
Joe and Sophia finalize their divorce
According to a filing obtained by People On February 9, 2024, Joe and Sophia’s divorce was finalized because they had “entered into a written agreement regarding their property and their marriage … which has or has been submitted to the court.”
17 July 2024
Joe denies Sofia’s previous claims about their divorce
A year after announcing their breakup, Joe criticized Sofia’s previous claims that the relationship ended because he wanted kids and she didn’t.
“A lot has been said about me in the press that I want a family. That’s not true,” he said in an interview. men’s journal.
“We tried to have a family for the first year and a half,” he said. “And during the first month of dating we had a big conversation right out of the gate. I said, ‘If you’re done with kids, I understand. Just tell me, and I’ll know what it is, and it’s okay.’ But it was not so with him. And I swore to him that if it didn’t work I would never leave. And I didn’t.”
8 October 2026
Joe claims his secret near-fatal autoimmune disease ended his and Sophia’s marriage
in an interview with People While promoting his new memoir, BloodinessJoe revealed that he had been secretly battling a near-fatal autoimmune disease since his first marriage to Sophia in 2015.
Years after criticizing his ex-wife’s comments about not wanting to start a family, he admitted that he abandoned the idea because of his illness. She shared that she had considered egg donors after a few failed IVF attempts, but changed her mind because he “didn’t want to die” and leave her with a baby “that wasn’t biologically theirs.”
“There were things said and printed about me that were false,” she told the outlet, adding that her memoir was her way of “correcting” the story.
9 October 2026
Sophia and her son share a post about “narcissistic” men after Joe People Interview
After this, Joe talked about his and Sophia’s relationship in an interview. PeopleHer son Manolo Gonzalez Vergara shared an Instagram Story, which also included a chart comparing “good” men and “narcissistic” men.
“Remember kids, when dealing with a narcissist, it doesn’t matter how much you do for them, because they will resent you for it and nothing will ever be enough, and they will always try to somehow paint you as the bad guy,” she wrote along with the post, which was reshared to Sophia’s Stories.
It didn’t take long for his followers to guess that the post could possibly be a dig at Joe – especially because he later revealed that Sofia made a life-saving decision for him during an emergency surgery while he was unconscious.
12 October 2026
Joe reacts to Sofia and Manolo’s Instagram shade
Well…Joe was asked directly about Sophia’s post during an interview CBS Morning’ Gayle King. And he replied!
“His son made a post, ‘This is what happens when you deal with a narcissist,’ and he liked that post,” she said, before asking, “They seem to be saying that basically, what happened to you is terrible but the bottom line is that you are a narcissist. What do you say to that?”
“Well, I think whoever said that should read the book first and understand what the book is really about because it’s not about him. It’s about the pain I went through,” Joe responded.
“Trauma and pain affected everyone in my life, including me
You can’t predict, and it was hard,” he told Gale, emphasizing that his book “is not about his marriage.”
13 October 2026
Joe has published details of his marriage with Sophia in his new memoir, Bloodiness
In Joe’s new book, he details the collapse of his marriage to Sophia, claiming that the relationship had become “devoid of any kind of emotion.” He separately alleged that Sofia “refused” to hug him or show him affection and made fun of “her pet chihuahua” Bubbles, who she had adopted when he considered ending his life.
Sofia has yet to respond to Joe’s memoir claims, but we’ll be back with more as soon as we have it!