Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello Announce Divorce After Seven Years of Marriage

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Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello are getting a divorce.

The actors announced the split after seven years of marriage in a joint statement on Monday.

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“We have made the difficult decision to divorce,” the couple shared in a statement to Page Six. “As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect for our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives.”

The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Vergara’s and Manganiello’s reps for comment.

According to People, the pair first met through Vergara’s Modern Family co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in 2014. Vergara was engaged at the time. Later, when Vergara announced her breakup, Manganiello asked Ferguson for her phone number.

“I knew Joe through people and we had done benefits together, and I knew Sofia from working with her, and we were at a party together and I just introduced them,” Ferguson said on The Late Late Show With James Corden at the time. “I said: ‘Have you ever met Sofia?’ and of course, Joe was, like, ‘Mmm!'”

“When she broke up with her fiancé at the time, Joe — like, immediately, the moment it was out in the world — called me and was, like: ‘I need her number.’ And then I called Sofia and I was, like, ‘Can I give Joe your number?’ And she was, like, ‘Ay, no!’ … but like, wanting me to give the number: ‘Oh no, you go ahead, OK, OK.’ And so I did the number exchange and he took over from there,” Ferguson continued.

Vergara would later confirm that she and Manganiello were dating in an interview with Extra. “You know I’m just having a great time and it’s a special time in my life and I’m trying not to think too much about it. It’s something very new so we will see what happens,” she said at the time.

Meanwhile, during an appearance on The Tonight Show, Manganiello recalled the moment he realized Vergara was the one for him. “I said, ‘I know you just got out of this long-term relationship, and if you need to be single, then I understand. Like, I’m not gonna like it, but I’ll get over it. … But before you answer, I wanna show you something,'” he said, before handing her the 2014 Hottest Hollywood Bachelor issue of People magazine with him on the cover.

“She picked up the magazine, she opened it up and I saw that she was flipping by my interview and I said, ‘What are you doing?’ And she said, ‘I’m seeing who else is on the list,'” he said.

Vergara and Manganiello eventually tied the knot in 2015 in Palm Beach, Florida. According to People, Manganiello proposed to Vergara while vacationing at the St. Regis Hotel in Princeville, Hawaii, over Christmas.

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