Sofía Vergara didn’t write a statement, give an interview, or post a cryptic quote with a sunset background. She just reposted an Instagram Story from her son Manolo about how narcissists resent you no matter how much you do and always find a way to paint you as the bad guy. The timing was not subtle, because it landed right after excerpts from her ex-husband Joe Manganiello’s memoir started making the rounds.
In“Bloodlines,”out October 13, Manganiello describes their marriage as emotionally empty, claims Vergara refused to hug him during a near-fatal autoimmune battle, and says his health crisis is what ended their IVF plans. Vergara previously said the marriage ended because he wanted kids and she didn’t want to be an old mom. The couple married in 2015 and finalized their divorce in February 2024. Both have moved on, with Manganiello engaged to Caitlin O’Connor and Vergara dating Douglas Chabbott, which makes the whole thing feel less like unfinished business and more like a book launch strategy.
Two people, two very different versions of the same marriage, and one very online audience deciding who to believe. The memoir hits shelves October 13, so consider this drama officially scheduled programming.
Whose version of the story would you trust more, the memoir or the Instagram Story?
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