Sofía Vergara Is Resharing "Narcissist" Posts Days After Joe Manganiello's Memoir Took Aim at Her

LOS ANGELES — Sofía Vergara has a new response to her ex-husband's memoir, and it fits in an Instagram Story. On Thursday, the actress reshared a pointed graphic about narcissistic men — originally posted by her 35-year-old son, Manolo — days after Joe Manganiello's upcoming memoir Bloodlines made headlines with claims about their marriage.

Let's be exact about what she posted, because the wording is doing all the work. The Story Vergara reshared on October 9 was a graphic contrasting "good men" with "narcissistic men," with a warning Manolo wrote for his followers: "Remember kids … it doesn't matter how much you do for a [narcissist]. They will resent you for it and nothing will ever be enough and they'll always somehow try to paint you as the bad guy." The graphic's bullet points accused narcissists of "crav[ing] superiority" and "act[ing] like Peter Pan," among other faults. Vergara added celebratory emojis — clapping hands, champagne, a dancing woman.

And that was the second one. The evening before, Vergara had reshared a different pointed post — one originally shared by Tom Brady, who wrote that "life's too short to be too serious." Brady's post read: "The ability to laugh at oneself is probably the highest form of intelligence. The inability to laugh at oneself is a sure sign you're dealing with an idiot." Vergara co-signed it with clapping emojis.

She named no one in either post. But the calendar did the talking. The reshares landed within days of published excerpts from Manganiello's memoir Bloodlines — out October 13 from Avid Reader Press — in which the 49-year-old actor makes a series of painful claims about the final years of their marriage, per People and Page Six's reporting on the excerpts.

Here is what Manganiello wrote in the book, as reported in the published excerpts: that Vergara "ridiculed" him over Bubbles, the 5-pound chihuahua he adopted in 2019 during a period when, by his own account, he was considering suicide — "I had to give my gun away because I kept thinking about it, and then the dog came," he writes. That she refused to hug him even when he begged while he was severely ill. Manganiello writes that the marriage had become "devoid of any emotionality whatsoever." And that despite Vergara's past statements that they split because he wanted children and she "didn't want to be an old mom," he had actually walked away from their IVF plans because of his illness — he wrote that he didn't want to die and leave her with a child "who wasn't biologically hers."

The health battle is the book's center of gravity. Manganiello describes a seven-year fight with an autoimmune condition that, by his account, first surfaced shortly after their 2015 wedding: severe abdominal pain, fevers, rashes, headaches, and rectal bleeding; 60 pounds lost; multiple colonoscopies; medications typically prescribed for Crohn's and colitis; and a 2016 emergency surgery that removed part of his intestines and left him with an ostomy bag. "I can't believe I'm alive," he told People. These are his claims and his account of the illness and the marriage — Vergara's camp has not responded to requests for comment.

The timeline of the split itself is not in dispute. Manganiello and Vergara married in November 2015 and finalized their divorce in February 2024. He is now engaged to Caitlin O'Connor; she is dating jewelry executive Douglas Chabbott. What is in dispute — publicly, anyway — is the story of why it ended. Vergara told a Spanish newspaper in 2024 that "we broke up because my husband was younger; he wanted to have kids, and I didn't want to be an old mom." Manganiello's memoir says the opposite: that he gave up the idea because he feared dying and leaving her to raise a child conceived with a donor egg. Two memories, one marriage, no agreement.

Which brings us back to the Stories. Vergara has not issued a statement. Her reps, like Manganiello's, did not respond to Page Six's request for comment. What she posted was a reshare — first the "idiot" quote, then her son's "narcissist" graphic — and let the internet connect the dots. That is the modern celebrity-response playbook in its purest form: no press release, no interview, no name mentioned, just a 24-hour post that says everything and commits to nothing.

It is worth noting who the first post came from. Manolo Gonzalo Vergara, her son, is 35 — an adult with his own public voice, and the author of the "narcissist" caption. When Vergara reshares her son's words rather than writing her own, she gets the message out and keeps her own hands technically clean. Whether that was calculation or just a mother co-signing her kid's post is, genuinely, unknowable from the outside. The internet has decided anyway.