Sofia Vergara reflects on brother's death in at hands of drug cartel

Sofía Vergara is opening up about her brother's death at the hands of a drug cartel while talking about her Netflix limited series Griselda. 

Vergara played Columbian Cocaine Godmother Griselda Blanco and remembers the era of drug lords like Pablo Escobar. 

“I lived through that era,” said Vergara, who’s a native Columbian. “Everybody at that time—good families, families with money—were part of the business at some point. Even, unfortunately, my brother.”

The Modern Family star’s brother was killed by a drug cartel in the 1990s. He was only 28.

“There are things that happen in life that push you in the wrong direction,” she reflected in an interview with Deadline. “My brother had nothing to do really in this business, and for some reason he ended up there. He was very charismatic, very generous, very handsome. You would’ve never thought.”

“But people are not just one thing. They sometimes get dragged into things because of necessity, because of things that happen in life, and you make the wrong decisions. That doesn’t make you a horrific person,” she noted.

Sharing how she could relate to Griselda, Sofia Vergara said: “I’m like, ‘I know this character.’ When I saw Griselda—not that I killed husbands or anything like that—I knew who she was. I have many similarities in a way; I’m an immigrant, a mother, a strong person. But not everybody does horrific things.”