Fantastic Four star Ioan Gruffudd has dealt another blow to his ex-wife, actress Alice Evans, by calling his new love, fiancée Bianca Wallace, as a witness against him in court.
The former Mrs. Gruffudd, 56, and future Mrs. Gruffudd, 32, are set to meet face-to-face next month in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom, where the actor wants Wallace to testify how Evans “stalked, harassed and abused” her in violation of a legal restraining order.
This is the latest explosive episode in a fierce war between Gruffudd and Evans that has raged since they split in 2021.
In new court documents found by DailyMail.com, Gruffudd, 50, also mocks Evans’ recent claims that she was broke, unable to feed the couple’s two young children and was on the verge of receiving food stamps, while calling her ex’s claims of poverty “exaggerated and false.”
And he accuses her of having once created a GoFundMe page, saying she was “out of money” and asking for “anything I could give her,” when in fact she had more than $86,000 in the bank.
Wallace is expected to testify how Evans “stalked, harassed and abused” her in violation of a legal restraining order.
Ioan Gruffudd and his ex-wife Alice Evans had a happy time, but were at war for years in court over their divorce, which was finalised in July last year.
In the legal documents, the Welsh actor, whose latest film Bad Boys: Ride or Die has grossed more than $400 million worldwide, goes on to complain that a court-ordered plan to reunite him with his daughters for therapy sessions was sabotaged by Evans, meaning he has spent just nine hours with Ella, 14, and Elsie, 10, so far in 2024.
Gruffudd’s new statements are in response to his ex’s request to the court for a temporary order, requiring him to pay more temporary support to tide her over until a full trial on spousal and child support is held, which could take months.
The temporary support hearing is scheduled for Sept. 9, when Wallace will be one of six people on Gruffudd’s witness list, including himself and Evans.
Wallace is expected to testify that Evans has repeatedly violated a three-year domestic violence restraining order (DVRO) she and Gruffudd obtained in August 2022, after enduring a barrage of vitriolic and disparaging text messages, emails and social media posts from her.
Evans, he says in the new documents, ‘engaged in a pattern of harmful and defamatory conduct against me, intended to intimidate and harass me and my fiancée, Bianca Wallace, while alienating our two young children.
Gruffudd says he has only spent nine hours with Ella, 14, and Elsie, 10, so far in 2024.
Evans is accused of interfering in therapy sessions between Gruffudd and his two daughters, including one instance where he allegedly threw himself on the floor pretending to have a panic attack.
“Evans has been engaged in a long-standing smear campaign against me,” he wrote.
“She has a history of spreading lies about me… I will present evidence of her continued violation of said restraining order against the woman.”
Earlier this year, Gruffudd reportedly agreed to pay Evans $7,000 a month in spousal support and $3,000 in child support. Evans said there were no payments in May and June.
But Gruffudd disagrees with his ex’s claims that he is broke, saying in the legal documents that he has “paid $400,000 more than required in spousal support” in his prenuptial agreement with Evans.
She lashes out at Evans’ “false narrative that she and the children have been left completely destitute.”
“Alice has misrepresented her income and earnings, filing claims for thousands of dollars in unidentified deposits each month and continues to live with high monthly expenses,” it said.
‘From January 2023 to May 2024, Alice spent approximately $270,000 in overspending (approximately $15,800 per month).’
She says that in March 2022, when Evans posted online that she was homeless, her forensic accountants discovered that at the time she actually had nearly $157,000 in the bank.
Evan claimed his ex had bought his fiancée Wallace a Rolex watch while she was struggling to put food on the table for their two daughters.
Gruffudd says the expensive watch belonged to a friend and Bianca was just trying it on.
And, according to the legal documents: ‘In June 2022, Alice created a GoFundMe page asking for donations, stating that she had no money and asking the public for “anything they could contribute”… during that same time, Alice had $86,457.50 available in her personal accounts.’
Gruffudd says Evans sent her a message in November last year saying: “Your daughters Ella and Elsie are suffering from lack of money (they have very little to eat, no leftovers). As a mother I will not be able to do Christmas stockings or take Father Christmas this year.”
In fact, she says, she had an income of $26,000 that November.
He takes particular issue with Evans’ claim that “while I’m struggling to put food on the table, Ioan is travelling the world” and buying Rolex watches for Bianca Wallace (in reference to a photo posted online of Bianca wearing a Rolex).
“Apart from the fact that his claims of poverty were completely exaggerated and false, my trips were to carry out various jobs in different places,” he criticises.
“As for my fiancé and I allegedly purchasing Rolex watches, that is completely false and is based solely on an Instagram post by Bianca where she tried on a friend’s watch and posed for the camera. I have not purchased any Rolex watches from Bianca.”
In his statement, Gruffudd, who says Wallace could testify at next month’s support hearing over the Rolex watch incident, blames Evans for dashing his hopes of reconnecting with his estranged daughters.
Last November, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Josh Stinn ordered Evans to take Elsie and Ella to weekly “reunification therapy” with their father, decreeing that the feuding former couple could not insult or denigrate each other in front of their children, or do anything else that would upset the children, during the therapy sessions.
The hearing is scheduled for Sept. 9, when Wallace will be one of six people on Gruffudd’s witness list. He is expected to testify that Evans has repeatedly violated a domestic violence restraining order.
Evans said she was broke and couldn’t afford to feed her children and claims she was homeless at one point. Gruffudd said she actually had tens of thousands of dollars in her account.
But Gruffudd laments in his statement: “Alice interfered by attempting to enter the (therapist’s) premises during my session, violating the restraining order and abruptly throwing herself to the ground claiming to be having an alleged panic attack.”
She accuses Evans of “fighting with the therapist in front of the children, claiming that the therapist was favoring me; and making excuses for why I couldn’t bring the children to the sessions.
‘I think it was Alice’s own constant interference and alienation that caused the reunification therapy to be unsuccessful.’
Gruffudd adds that although “I attended every session, I didn’t finish a single full session. This year I spent nine hours with the children.”
Gruffudd, who met Evans when they co-starred in the 2000 Disney film 102 Dalmatians, filed for divorce in March 2021, shortly after the blonde actress claimed on social media that her husband of 14 years had abandoned her and their two daughters.
The divorce became effective last July, but issues of spousal and child support remain to be resolved. The girls are currently living with their mother, and last May she and Gruffudd reached a custody agreement, the details of which were sealed by the court.
But in her new court filing, Gruffud says Evans has “threatened to attempt to set aside our entire custody agreement, thereby exposing our children to continued conflict, without regard to their best interests.”
