regarding what caused their divorce Sophia Vergara makes statements that Joe manganelo refutes Sophia Vergara claims that Joe manganelo sought a divorce because he wanted children but Joe has refuted this after seven years of marriage the Modern Family actress 52 and the 47-year-old actor from True Blood parted ways in July of last year later on Vergara made the unrefuted assertion to the Spanish daily alpus that the reason they split up was because manganello wanted a child and she didn't dot Vergara's assertions that their breakup was due to his desire to become a parent according to manganello are simply not true and he acknowledged that he felt misrepresented as having a midlife crisis there's been a lot said in the Press about me wanting a family manganello remarked in an interview with Men's Journal that isn't accurate at all for the first year and a half he said we did try to have a family and in the first month of Our dating we had a really great conversation I said I understand if you're done with kids that's okay I'll know what this is if you just tell me however it wasn't the situation with her the actor went on and I promised her that even if things didn't work out I would never leave I also didn't manganello acknowledged that having kids wasn't inevitably why everything ended despite his admission that he does want to have kids it is due to the fact that two individuals sometimes grow throw apart the speaker went on to be portrayed as if I had some kind of midlife crisis and then after 9 years turned to someone and threatened to leave them if they did this possibly harmful thing to their body I was never that person varara and manganello announced their difficult decision to divorce in a joint statement last July varara and manganello initially met at the White House correspondence association dinner in 2014 via vara's Modern Family co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson Vergara stated she didn't want to become a mother again when she was almost in menopause in an interview with elpus about their breakup 10 months later she had previously given birth to her son Manolo at the age of 19 with her first husband Joe Gonzales