Joe Manganiello gets ready to tell his story.
In recent years, the Real blood The life of an actor has changed drastically. As we know, Joe and Sofia Vergara divorced in July 2023 after almost ten years of marriage. And the following April, she their divorce finalized. But beyond the heartbreak of their breakup, Joe was secretly fighting another battle behind the scenes: autoimmune disease.
Tuesday has the Magic Mike star announced his upcoming memoir Bloodlineswhich will appear on the bookshelves on October 13. And in an interview with People on Tuesday he revealed shocking details about a “near-death” health crisis! According to the memoir’s official synopsis, Joe tells his story “marked by multiple near-death experiences and medical crises that took him beyond medicine and into a remarkable, global quest that revealed answers about his origins, inherited trauma, and the deeper histories we carry with us.”
Wow!
The synopsis went on to reveal Joe’s SEVEN-year battle that began with “a cascade of autoimmune diseases” affecting his skin, thyroid, eyes, lungs and digestive system. Holy shit! This left the actor with “chronic pain, a life-saving organ amputation, an existential crisis and a prolonged struggle for survival that left doctors with few answers and no clear explanation.”
An organ amputation?! That’s so scary! But we’re so glad Joe was able to get through it all!
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With doctors left with “few answers and no clear explanation,” Joe began his own healing journey through “shamans, pagan rituals, ancient myths, long-lost family records, and the rebirth of his own spirituality.”
The One pieceThe actor told the outlet:
“It was the most brutally difficult time of my life, a time I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy, but also my greatest adventure. I hope that what I experienced on this journey can give readers hope that answers and healing for them may lie on the other side of whatever they are fighting through.”
He further revealed that writing his book gave him “the gift of perspective,” which allowed him to see that “my suffering was a cocoon from which I would emerge forever changed.”
How powerful!
Publisher Simon & Schuster called the 49-year-old’s story “deeply personal and emotionally expansive” because it deals with “illness, legacy, masculinity, faith, ambition and the identities we build to survive.” More than a memoir of a medical crisis, it is an in-depth account of what happens when the life you have built can no longer hold the truth of what you carry with you.”
So far, the specific autoimmune diseases Joe faced have not been revealed.
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