Joe Manganiello says a shaman told him Sofia Vergara's ex 'put a voodoo curse' on him

Joe Manganiello released his new memoir, "Bloodlines," which is already receiving a lot of buzz online.

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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Manganiello and Vergara married in 2015 and announced their separation in 2023. Their divorce was finalized in 2024.

In his memoir, Manganiello detailed that he proposed to her in Spanish in Kauai, Hawaii, and the next year they were married. They planned on starting a family.

"She told me that when we first met, she wasnt thinking about having more children, but she had sworn that if she ever remarried and her husband wanted kids, shed do it," Manganiello wrote. "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."

Manganiello said that after two years of trying to have a child, they were unsuccessful. 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."

A year after the couple tied the knot, Manganiello was admitted into the hospital for two months straight.

"To visit me, Sofía had to lie down out of sight in the back of her assistants 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.

It was Vergara who made the lifesaving decision to have the doctor remove Manganiello's large intestine so he would survive.

"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. 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."

"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.

Manganiello credits his illness for contributing to his marriage with Vergara falling apart.

"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.

Manganiello was admitted into the hospital for two months straight after a year of symptoms from his "mystery illness." He lost 60 pounds in two weeks after ha