Joe Manganiello details secret seven year health battle during memoir interview

Actor Joe Manganiello revealed during an interview on CBS Mornings that he survived a secret health battle over seven years that nearly took his life, Fox News reported. Speaking to Gayle King while promoting his new memoir, Bloodlines, Manganiello detailed how his former wife Sofia Vergara made the life saving decision to have his large intestine removed while he was unconscious. [1]

According to Fox News, the medical emergency coincided with a major career opportunity. Manganiello received an offer in 2016 to play the main villain, Deathstroke, in Ben Affleck's canceled Batman film. He stated that the call came roughly a month after he left the hospital following a collapse on another film set, writing in his memoir that he was dying at the time he was offered the role. [1]

Manganiello began his professional film career playing Flash Thompson in Spider-Man, according to Wikipedia. Wikipedia and Grokipedia also note that his breakout role was as werewolf Alcide Herveaux in True Blood, an HBO series he appeared in for five seasons. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 28, 1976. [6][7]