Joe Manganiello is responding to Sofía Vergara’s declare that they divorced as a result of wanting extra youngsters was a dealbreaker for her.

Vergara had beforehand revealed in Spanish newspaper El País that her ex-husband’s need for extra kids was an enormous a part of their break up.

“My marriage broke up as a result of my husband was youthful; he wished to have youngsters and I didn’t wish to be an previous mother,” she mentioned. “I had a son at 19, who’s now 32, and I’m able to be a grandmother, not a mom. So, if love comes alongside, he has to come back with [his own] kids.”

In an interview with Individuals, Vergara expanded on her reasoning including, “I completely respect the place anybody desires to be a mother after 50. I didn’t assume due to my profession, the way in which I stay my life, the way in which my marriage was, that it was honest to convey a child to this world, and I’m not going to have the ability to give one hundred pc.”

Nevertheless, Manganiello is giving his perspective.

In a brand new interview with Males’s Journal, the actor and government producer of Deal or No Deal Island mentioned, “There’s been lots mentioned within the press about me wanting a household. That’s merely not true.”

“We did attempt to have a household for the primary yr and a half,” he defined. “And we had an enormous dialog proper out of the gate throughout the first month we dated. I mentioned, ‘Should you’re achieved with youngsters, then I perceive. Simply inform me, and I’ll know what that is, and that’s OK.’ However that wasn’t the case together with her. And I swore to her that I might by no means go away if it didn’t work out. And I didn’t.”

Although he does wish to have kids, Manganiello instructed the publication that “wasn’t inevitably why every thing ended. It’s as a result of two folks grew aside, and typically that occurs.”

“To be painted as if I had some form of midlife disaster, and after 9 years, turned to any person and gave them an ultimatum of, ‘Do that doubtlessly unhealthy factor to your physique, or else I’m gone?’ That’s by no means who I used to be.”

Vergara and Manganiello introduced their break up after seven years of marriage in a joint assertion final July. “We now have made the tough choice to divorce,” the couple shared in an announcement to Web page Six. “As two people who love and take care of each other very a lot, we politely ask for respect for our privateness presently as we navigate this new section of our lives.”

In response to Individuals, the pair first met by way of Vergara’s Fashionable Household co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson on the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation dinner in 2014.

The previous pair have every moved on and are in new relationships. Vergara is courting orthopedic surgeon Justin Saliman whereas Manganiello has been courting actress Caitlin O’Connor.