Joe Manganiello released his new memoir, "Bloodlines," which is already receiving a lot of buzz online.
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From revealing details about his divorce from Sofía Vergara, the seven-year long mystery illness that nearly took his life, and Tom Cruise's alleged involvement in the star being nixed in the "Reacher" series, below are the biggest bombshells from "Bloodlines: A Memoir."
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Trying to start a family
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Manganiello and Vergara married in 2015 and announced their separation in 2023.
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Their divorce was finalized in 2024.
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In his memoir, Manganiello detailed that he proposed to her in Spanish in Kauai, Hawaii and the next year they were married.
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They planned on starting a family.
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"She told me that when we first met, she wasn’t thinking about having more children, but she had sworn that if she ever remarried and her husband wanted kids, she’d do it," Manganiello wrote.
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"It was clear right away how we felt about each other, so at the urging of her doctor, before we were even engaged, we began trying via IVF."
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Manganiello said that after two years of trying to have a child, they were unsuccessful.
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The former couple even entertained the idea of having a surrogate, but $200,000 later, they decided it was not the right time due to Manganiello's "mystery illness."
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Manganiello says his illness changed the marriage
A year after the couple tied the knot, Manganiello was admitted into the hospital for two months straight.
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"To visit me, Sofía had to lie down out of sight in the back of her assistant’s car, until they were sure they had lost the paparazzi, before heading to the hospital where she would disguise herself in a wig and hat and sneak in through the loading dock," Manganiello wrote.
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It was Vergara who made the lifesaving decision to have the doctor's remove Manganiello's large intestine so he would survive.
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While I was under, they called Sofía, who, as my next of kin, had to choose what she thought I would want the doctors to do.
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She made the brutal but lifesaving decision to allow my entire large intestine to be removed and a hole to be cut into my abdomen to divert my small intestine.
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"When I woke up after the ten-hour procedure, she was there at the foot of my bed to inform me that the surgery had saved my life but had left me with an ostomy bag for an indefinite amount of time, possibly forever," he wrote.
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Manganiello credits his illness for contributing to his marriage with Vergara falling apart.
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"I started to live separately on the opposite side of the house during the day, and with the loss of my enthusiasm for life and the death of the dream of her and me becoming parents together, the fire between us began to go out," he said, referring to the period after he was released from the hospital.
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Mystery illness and voodoo curse
Manganiello was admitted into the hospital for two months straight after a year of symptoms from his "mystery illness."
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He lost 60 pounds in two weeks after having his large intestine removed to save his life.
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In his memoir, he wrote that a Cuba-based shaman told him he was "sick" and "something is wrong with his intestines."
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At the time, Manganiello said members of his close family did not even know the extent of his illness and gave Vergara a "side-eye" that was "equal parts fear, anger, and disbelief."
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The shaman then said that an ex from Vergara's past who still had romantic feelings for her put a curse on Manganiello.
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He put a voodoo curse on your husband.
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He did it in New Orleans,'" Manganiello recalled the shaman telling him.
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He continued, "'Your husband needs to be cleansed and protected.
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I can do this.
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I can help him.
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But I need to see him for two days, and I cannot come to the United States.
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Can he meet me somewhere else?
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I could meet him in Ecuador.'
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Manganiello was stunned by the shaman's comments.
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"I looked at Sofía, trying to comprehend how the f–k this guy could possibly know any of this," he wrote.
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"None of this had been mentioned in the press.
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No one knew."
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Manganiello began raking his brain, trying to figure out what ex it could be.
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He eventually believed it could have been "the guy she was with right before me."
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Vergara and Nick Loeb called off their engagement in 2014.
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That same year, Vergara began dating Manganiello.
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…and 25 more, not listed.
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