Sofia Vergara and her husband Joe Manganiello announced their divorce after seven years of marriage. The couple confirmed the breakup following her trip to Italy.
Recently, Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara took a trip with her friends in Italy to celebrate her 51st birthday. There, she traveled without her husband, Joe, 46, and she wasn’t wearing her wedding ring on her finger.
For her birthday, the Magic Mike actor shared an older shot of the two, captioning it, “¡¡¡Feliz Cumpleaños Sofía!!!”
Now, Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello officially announced they are going to divorce.
“We have made the difficult decision to divorce,” the couple shared in a joint 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.”
Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello’s Relationship Timeline
The former couple met through Vergara’s Modern Family co-star, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in 2014 on May 3. At the time, Vergara was engaged to Nick Loeb.
Inside the event, Manganiello was photographed starring at the actress and he later opened up about the moment to PEOPLE.
“There was a picture someone snapped at the White House Correspondents’ dinner where they caught me looking at Sofia Vergara’s butt,” he said in 2014. “When you talk about being manipulated, that’s what I’m talking about. It’s like a moment of Zen. There is nothing in my brain. If only I could meditate that well. I don’t go after other people’s women. She’s got a guy. If she was single, I would be like, poof!“
She called off the engagement weeks after meeting Manganiello, and he asked Ferguson for her number.
Ferguson explained during The Late Late Show With James Corden, “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, okay, okay.’ And so I did the number exchange and he took over from there.“
Not long after, they went on their first date in June 2014. He flew to New Orleans, where Vergara was filming Hot Pursuit. They officially confirmed their relationship on August 11, 2014.
The two moved in together in November 2014, with Manganiello proposing on Christmas Eve during a vacation at the St. Regis Hotel in Princeville, Hawaii. They got married on November 22, 2015.
