Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello’s love story had its joyous chapters, but a pile-up of challenges led to the end of their seven-year marriage. Exactly what those challenges were depends on who you ask. While they put up a united front when they first announced their divorce in July 2023, Manganiello’s new memoir ‘Bloodlines,’ released Oct. 13, paints a more complicated picture of what went wrong and how they ended up on entirely different pages. Throughout the book, Manganiello viscerally details his battle with an autoimmune disease that caused him agonizing abdominal pain from his digestive tract ulcerating, fevers, rashes, headaches, fatigue and rectal bleeding. Manganiello writes in ‘Bloodlines’ that, while Vergara was by his side, finding new doctors for him to see, driving him to appointments and even connecting him with a shaman—though not the shaman he meets later who, according to the actor, tells him his body "tried to kill itself" because he had married a person he wasn’t meant to be with but had vowed to never leave—his health challenges strained their marriage to the point that it became "devoid of any emotionality whatsoever." He filed for divorce in July 2023 and, according to the book, met his now-fiancée Caitlin O’Connor four weeks later. But though he describes a very rough road traveled with his ex-wife, Manganiello writes that his "illness changed everything" and "no one would have willingly signed up for what I went through." He knew Vergara loved him, he added, "and she would have given anything she had to make it all go away, but she couldn’t." And they had since come out the other side of it "as different people."
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