Joe Manganiello's new statement tattoo honors his Armenian heritage and comes after his split from Sofia Vergara last month
Discussing his traumatic family history on, Manganiello shared that his great-grandmother managed to escape after being shot at the beginning of the genocide in 1915, leaving her husband and seven children behind, who had been shot and killed.
"She laid there unmoving and the Turks left the house and left the eighth child, who was an infant in the crib, to starve to death, which is just the way that they did business," he explained.“There were these death marches where they would just handcuff, chain the Armenians together and march them out to the desert, and release the Kurds, give them military coats, horses and guns, to then go do what they wanted with their mortal enemies, the Armenians," he said.
The actor also revealed on the show that his great-grandmother had to swim across the Euphrates river during her escape, discovering on the other side that her youngest child had drowned on her back. Later, she was captured by the German military and became pregnant by a German officer in an internment camp.Manganiello announced his divorce from Sofia Vergara in July. to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
On July 18, Manganiello and Vergara, 51, announced their split in a joint statement, as sources confirmed to PEOPLE that the couple were going
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