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Joe Manganiello On Getting Sober, The Mystery Illness That Almost Killed Him & The Trauma We Inherit

The Rich Roll Podcast, 12 October 2026. The book comes up at 3 min 7 sec in.

Joe Manganiello's newly released memoir is the subject of the entire episode. The host describes it as 'gripping' and says he can't stop thinking about it. Joe discusses how writing it was an exorcism rather than therapy, tracing sobriety, a near-fatal autoimmune illness, generational trauma from Armenian genocide survivors and an SS-officer half-uncle, and the spiritual odyssey — Santeria, Jungian therapy, shamanism — that eventually led to healing.

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