Actress Alice Evans’ messy split from her former actor Ioan Gruffudd took another shocking turn today, with her accusing her ex of failing to pay child support since May. She claimed she was in such dire financial straits that she could no longer put food on the table and was relying on food stamps.
In legal documents filed by Evans, 55,’s lawyers on July 1 and obtained by DailyMail.com, the mother of two said she has “100 percent” custody of her and Gruffudd’s two daughters, Ella, 14, and Elsie, 10, but has received no financial support from him since their custody arrangement was finalized two months ago.
Just weeks after the couple finally agreed their divorce, Evans says she is “struggling to put bread on the table” while insisting her 50-year-old ex-husband – who is currently engaged to Bianca Wallace – is “flying around the world” and living an “extravagant lifestyle”.
“While I work hard to put food on the table for the children, Ioan travels all over the world,” she writes in the documents.
She claims he bought himself and his fiancée Bianca new Rolex watches and has been on a worldwide press tour for the latest Bad Boys movie, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, while she is set to receive food stamps.
Actress Alice Evans’ messy split from her former actor Ioan Gruffudd took a shocking new turn today when she accused her ex-husband of not paying child support since May.
Evans, 55, claims she is unable to afford food for her children and says she is being forced to “apply for public assistance because she cannot provide for her own children.”
Evans points to “media stories” indicating that her ex-husband “bought an expensive engagement ring for his fiancée” and claims that he and Wallace also recently “bought new Rolex watches.”
At the time of this story’s publication, both Gruffudd and Wallace’s Instagram accounts had been deleted. However, in a May 2024 post that Wallace shared, she was seen wearing a green Rolex watch.
It is unclear whether this is the watch Evans is referring to in the court documents.
However, she is asking the court to order Gruffudd to pay spousal and child support until their financial trial, which has been adjourned from April this year until August, takes place.
“Alice is applying for benefits because she cannot provide for herself and her children,” her attorney said in the latest legal filing.
‘It appears that the financial lawsuit will be months away and that Alice will not survive without the spousal support directive.
“Ioan has the ability to pay spousal support based on his increased ability to earn income and his continued extravagant lifestyle. For these reasons, Alice requests a child and spousal support directive.”
Her lawyer Janina Verano also says that Ioan Gruffudd has not seen the children outside of reunification therapy since May 2023 and that he has also not exercised ‘his court-ordered right’ to call them three times a week. The reunification therapy ended in February this year.
“Ioan has not called or texted the children since May 2023,” Evans said. She added: “The children have been left in limbo and are completely confused about when and if they will see Ioan.”
Evans says in a writ filed by her attorney that she will not agree to keep their agreement or the custody agreement as a whole confidential, as requested by Gruffudd. She accuses Evans of being “dishonest” in his request to keep the legal proceedings secret in order to “protect the children.”
Evans’ attorney notes that Gruffudd “did not attempt to seal any of the DVRO records” [domestic violence] pleas, nor any of the custody pleas in which he falsely accuses Alice of child abuse — emphasizing that he only wants to seal the proceedings in which the allegations were resolved.
The actress accuses Gruffudd, 50, of leading an ‘extravagant lifestyle’ while she suffers, and draws attention to the ‘expensive engagement ring’ he bought for his fiancée Bianca Wallace
She also claims that both Gruffudd and Wallace have recently ‘bought new Rolex watches’ (Wallace was seen wearing a green Rolex in May this year)
‘…It appears that Ioan’s “concern” is disingenuous,’ the lawyer writes. ‘In short, his position is that the public should have access to all of his allegations against Alice, but not to the document that resolves said allegations.’
Evans adds that the only payments agreed to so far are $3,000 per month as temporary alimony.
Gruffudd also paid $7,000 a month in advance spousal support from December 2023 to April 2024. The financial issues were initially expected to go to court in April 2024, but that has now been postponed until August.
Evans says she has since incurred $112,000 in legal fees and is in “serious” financial trouble.
“I can’t wait months for a lawsuit to get alimony and spousal support,” she says. She claims she currently earns about $300 a month in royalties and hopes to earn even more money by appearing at fan conventions.
“I have spent my entire savings paying my previous attorneys on this case,” she writes, explaining that while she has some designer items in storage that she could sell, she can’t afford the monthly storage fees.
“As it stands now, I’m behind on rent and utilities and friends have started dropping off groceries and food so the kids can eat. I’m going to apply for food stamps and welfare.”
She claims that Gruffudd earns tens of thousands of dollars a month, according to his tax returns, and that he also received “approximately $390,000 from the proceeds of the sale of the home in December 2023.”
“In this case, there is a disparity in access to funds to pay the expenses because Alice only makes a few hundred dollars per month, while Ioan’s average monthly income on his January 24, 2024 income and expense tax return is $21,023 for the 36 months ending December 31, 2023 and $18,264 for the 12 months ending December 31, 2023,” the legal filing said.
Evans claims her ex-husband (who was seen with Wallace in Italy last month) is ‘travelling all over the world’ while she ‘struggles’ to afford food
Gruffudd and Wallace met on the set of the TV series Harrow, in which she appeared as an extra (seen together on set)
‘In addition, Ioan continues to get roles in films, such as Bad Boys 4, which was released this year. Ioan also received approximately $390,000 from the proceeds of the sale of the house in December 2023.’
Evans says she is entitled to 20 percent of his earnings under her prenuptial agreement, but she calls the agreement “vague and ambiguous.”
She is asking the court to pay her lawyers and claims he paid two different law firms and a forensic accountant.
Evans was granted a restraining order by her estranged husband in February 2022 after she posted a series of messages about him and his new girlfriend on social media and reportedly sent him more than 100 text messages, one of which read, “Your balls are stuck in her veneer.” She denied abusing or harassing him.
In August 2022, the ban was extended for three years, banning Evans from posting about Gruffudd or Wallace.
In June last year, eldest daughter Ella, then 13, filed for a restraining order against Gruffudd after a custody visit ended in chaos. She said: ‘I was so angry with my dad because this was an overnight visit and I had told him in the past that I didn’t want to meet his girlfriend, who was now his girlfriend who he was living with.’
She claimed Wallace slammed a door on her head as she ran out of their apartment and threw milk and mustard around in protest.
In publicly available documents, she said she was “afraid” of her father and that he had threatened “to call the police if she misbehaved” during visits.
Ella denied the request for a restraining order in court and confronted her father’s legal team.
In August last year, a judge granted Gruffudd’s request for a child psychiatrist and ordered that Evans take the children for weekly “reunification therapy” sessions.
Evans said it wasn’t necessary because he hadn’t seen or called his daughters in three months.
The couple married in Mexico in 2007, after meeting on the set of the Disney film 102 Dalmatians.