Ioan Gruffudd And Alice Evans‘ The separation is proving more acrimonious by the day as the estranged couple continues to throw troubling accusations at each other.
The actor told the court during his divorce trial Friday that Evans actually had $100,000 in his account despite fans’ demands for money.
A judge has since issued Ioan Gruffudd with a renewed five-year restraining order against Alice Evans as their legal battle rages on.
Alice Evans reportedly received $100,000 thanks to crowdfunding from her fans
Gruffudd has come forward with shocking new claims against his ex-wife, Alice Evans.
According to the Daily Mailduring a divorce trial in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, the “Fantastic Four” actor told the court that although Evans was publicly pleading for financial help from her fans and social media followers, she was actually sitting on a six-figure bank balance.
The “Vampire Diaries” actress had gone public with her alleged financial constraints, saying she was “broke” and unable to pay for groceries and take care of their daughters, Ella and Elsie, since splitting from their father in 2021.
Evans also said she feared becoming homeless due to her financial struggles. This prompted fans to donate thousands of dollars to a GoFundMe she created.
Gruffudd told the court that Evans had said on social media that she started GoFundMe “because her world had fallen apart… she was a struggling single mother who had exhausted all her resources and accounts and had no money for food or any help”.
However, the actor alleged that at the time Evans appealed for help on social media, “she was living at the family residence and [he] paid all his expenses. By her own account, she had about $100,000.
The actress was asked about the $90,000 fee she withdrew from their joint account
The ex-couple has been at loggerheads for years now, with Evans asking the court to increase the $1,500 monthly payment she receives in spousal support.
However, Gruffudd wants the court to cancel the payment altogether due to his “ongoing domestic violence” against him and his “numerous breaches of a previous restraining order”.
According to the outlet, he also claimed he had already “overpaid” her to the tune of nearly $400,000.
As the hearing progressed, Gruffudd’s lawyers questioned Evans about the $90,000 in fees she withdrew from their joint account and allegedly hid with their nanny.
She admitted paying the amounts of $10,000, $30,000 and two installments of $24,000 to the nanny, but claimed the domestic helper was battling cancer and the money was an advance for her services so she could take care of her health.
Alice Evans admits she didn’t try to get other jobs outside of acting
Elsewhere during the hearing, Evans argued that her age had affected her chances of landing film roles in Hollywood and that she had not appeared in any projects since 2016, which apparently had an impact on her finances.
She also claimed she suffered from an autoimmune disease that “can affect my ability to work… But I haven’t had a flare-up in three years.”
The “Lost” actress said she relied on “gifts from family, friends and fans” to cover her bills, but admitted to Gruffudd’s lawyers that she had not tried to seek employment outside of acting with her other skills, including fluency in French.
“If I could make enough money to support my children, I would be willing to move into another field,” she said.
The actress suffered a legal setback
Gruffudd scored a huge victory against Evans in March when Judge Michael Convey renewed his domestic violence restraining order for five years, according to the Daily mail.
The actor had recounted a years-long campaign of online harassment and abuse she waged against him and his new wife, Bianca Wallace, leading him to seek an initial restraining order in 2022.
Evans admitted that she hasn’t kept her best behavior online and often insults them in several social media posts.
She later apologized to them and told the court how “ashamed and regretful” she was about her behavior, but the judge didn’t accept it, saying she had breached the original restraining order “on several occasions.”
The reason the judge issued the restraining order against Ioan Gruffudd’s ex-wife
Despite Evans’ pleas, Judge Convey renewed Gruffudd’s restraining order, noting that she had carried out a “concerted, targeted, intentional and caustic smear campaign” aimed at Gruffudd and Wallace.
He said Evans’ “threats of force and intimidation… caused Ioan to fear for his and Bianca’s physical safety” and that his “patterns of violence” kept him isolated from their children.
“Her vow to ‘dedicate her life to fighting him’ and ruin her career threatened her ability to provide for her children,” the judge added.