Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello announce separation
Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello have announced their separation, after being married for seven years.
The pair, who have previously been dubbed one of Hollywood’s most solid couples, confirmed the news of their divorce in a statement to Page Six on Monday.
“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,” the statement read.
Vergara is currently celebrating her 51st birthday with a group of friends in Italy, with Manganiello notably absent from the celebrations.
A source also told Page Six that they have been “growing apart for a while now” and “are taking some distance from each other to contemplate their future”.
Another source added that “no one out there (in Italy) with her is even attempting to pretend that it’s not over. It’s over. It’s done.”
Vergara and Manganiello’s last public sighting together was in June, when the actress visited Manganiello on the set of his new film, Nonnas, in New Jersey.
The couple first met through Vergara’s former Modern Family co-star, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, in 2014 at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, while she was still engaged to ex Nick Loeb.
When Vergara and Loeb’s engagement was called off, Manganiello reached out and the pair started dating.
“I knew pretty quickly that I could trust her, and she knew pretty quickly that she could trust me,” Manganiello told People magazine of their bond in 2020.
“And we’re both the kind of people who are capable of putting the other person ahead of ourselves. I was capable of putting her wishes ahead of mine, whatever they were, and she was capable of doing the same. Once you have that, you don’t let go of it.”
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