Joe Manganiello Theorizes Sofía Vergara Is “Cursed” And Transmitted It To Him

Stephanie SoteriouThu, October 15, 2026 at 11:28 AM UTC

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Earlier this month, Joe Manganiello released his memoir, Bloodlines, in which he made a whole bunch of claims about his marriage to Sofía Vergara.

Ethan Miller / Getty ImagesIf you’re wondering, the two had been married for seven years when Joe filed for a divorce in 2023. At the time, the couple shared in a joint statement: "As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect of our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives."

John Shearer / Getty ImagesNaturally, people speculated a lot about what had caused the breakup, and Sofía later confirmed the rampant rumor that it had come down to them not being on the same page about having kids together. Sofía became a mom at 19 and spoke candidly about not wanting to have any more children after that.

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"My marriage broke up because my husband was younger; he wanted to have kids, and I didn’t want to be an old mom," she told El País six months after their split. "I respect whoever does it, but that’s not for me anymore. I had a son at 19, who is now 32, and I’m ready to be a grandmother, not a mother.”She doubled down on this a few months later, telling People: "I didn’t think because of my career, the way I live my life, the way my marriage was, that it was fair to bring a kid to this world, and I’m not going to be able to give 100%."

Katie Flores / Getty ImagesAnd while Joe did not comment on any of this for over a year, when he did speak up, he completely refuted Sofía’s claims. Speaking to Men’s Journal in July 2024, he said that the discourse about him “wanting a family” was “simply not true.” He added: “We had a huge conversation right out of the gate during the first month we dated. I said, ‘If you’re done with kids, then I understand. Just tell me, and I’ll know what this is, and that’s okay.’ And I swore to her that I would never leave if it didn’t work out. And I didn’t.""To be painted as if I had some sort of midlife crisis, and after nine years, turned to somebody and gave them an ultimatum of, 'Do this potentially unhealthy thing to your body, or else I’m gone'? That’s never who I was," he added.

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For what it’s worth, Sofía didn't have much to say in response to this, and, in turn, we never really got to the bottom of what actually happened between these two. But in Bloodlines, Joe has made some more claims about their relationship breakdown, which included opening up about spending the past decade secretly fighting an autoimmune disease that almost took his life.In excerpts obtained by People, Joe says that his health struggles began soon after he and Sofía got married in 2015. He suffered from excruciating abdominal pain that left him unable to walk as his digestive tract ulcerated, and also experienced fevers, blistering rashes, headaches, fatigue, and bleeding from his rectum. Getting progressively "sicker and sicker," Joe lost 60 pounds, underwent countless colonoscopies, and had an emergency surgery in 2016, which involved having part of his intestines removed. This meant he was unable to go to the bathroom normally and was relying on an ostomy bag.He adds that he never received a conclusive diagnosis for his condition, and that the health issues impacted his marriage because he became "devoid of any emotionality whatsoever." He also claims that Sofía refused to hug him, and mocked him over his love for his chihuahua, Bubbles, who he adopted in 2019 amid suffering from suicidal ideation.

Joe Manganiello / Viainstagram.comAnd now, the latest revelations to have come out of his memoir have left people totally shocked, with Joe revealing that he’d been told by a Cuba-based shaman that one of Sofía’s exes had put a curse on him, which made something “wrong with [his] intestines.”

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Per Page Six, Joe was left scared and in disbelief that the shaman knew that he was having trouble with his intestines, writing: “There were members of my close family who didn’t know any of that, let alone some random guy on the phone. I side-eyed Sofía with a look that was equal parts fear, anger, and disbelief.” He reiterates that nothing to do with his ailment had been mentioned in the press at that time, and “no one knew.”

Noam Galai / Getty Images“‘Someone from your past is still in love with you. He put a voodoo curse on your husband. He did it in New Orleans,'” Joe purportedly recalled the shaman telling Sofía. "‘Your husband needs to be cleansed and protected. I can do this. I can help him. But I need to see him for two days, and I cannot come to the United States. Can he meet me somewhere else? I could meet him in Ecuador.'”Joe admits to trying to work out which of Sofía’s exes was responsible for the curse, and wondered if it was “the guy she was with right before” him, who is believed to be actor Nick Loeb — with Joe noting that Nick once lived in New Orleans, where the curse was allegedly placed. Joe also recalled that Nick was in a “horrendous car wreck” while with Sofía.

Jason Merritt / Getty Images“The thought crossed my mind maybe it was Sofía who was cursed, cursed by some man in her past who couldn’t have her, so he put some sort of hex on her so that for the rest of her life, she’d transmit it to any man who got together with her,” Joe reportedly writes. “I was fully aware of how crazy it was for me to seriously entertain thoughts this bizarre, but then again, how did the shaman know all of that about me?”“Why did the most insane thing I’d ever heard have to make so much fucking sense?” he I asks. “I shook my head, pulled out my phone, and began google searching flights to Guayaquil, Ecuador.”

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For what it’s worth, Page Six reached out to Nick for comment on this story, and he is said to have told them: “I pray they find Jesus — not another shaman.”

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Needless to say, these comments from Joe have caused a bit of a storm on social media, with many people understandably gagged by his theory that Sofía was cursed and transmitted that curse to her male partners. One Reddit comment about Joe’s claims reads: “I'm not even touching whether shamans or hexes are a real thing, but you would have to waterboard this shit out of me because 98% of my friend group would just stare at me if I mentioned something like this.” To which somebody else responded: “Stare? They would laugh at me and slap me to reality.”“Finding the most absurd ways to blame women for shit lol,” another noted, one more added: “Never the man's fault for anything, of COURSE it's gotta be something SHE did to him!” And at this point a third user pointed out: “But also it has to originate in another man because women can't be powerful on their own!”And I think that pretty much sums this whole thing up! As always, let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

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