Joe manganelo refutes Sophia Vergara's statement that he truly desired children that's never the case in 2023 Joe manganello and Sophia varara announced together that they were divorcing after seven years of marriage citing irreconcilable differences as the basis for their split Joe filed for divorce in court in a previous year's interview with El Pace Sophia said that the reason for the dissolution of their marriage was her youthful husband's desire for children but she had no desire to become an older Mother after splitting with Sophia Joe has since denied the allegations and given his side of the tale the 47-year-old actor stated that their split was not due to their children in an interview with Men's Journal while acknowledging that he did want children he insisted that their dispute wasn't inevitably why everything ended for the first 1.5 years they did Endeavor to have it during their dating relationship the two even had a huge conversation about having children Joe remembered telling his ex-wife that if their plans to have children did not work out he would never leave if things didn't work out I vowed to her that I would never go neither did I he said he spoke on how the divorce had changed his opinion of his personality and said that their separation had resulted from their growing apart and sometimes that happens to be portrayed as if I had some kind of midlife crisis then 9 years later went to someone and threat threatened to leave them if they didn't do this possibly harmful thing to their body that's not who I was he said in closing