Ioan Gruffudd’s fiancée Bianca Wallace to face off with his ex-wife in court where she will claim Alice Evans ‘stalked, harassed, and abused’ her
Fantastic Four star Ioan Gruffudd has delivered another slap in the face to his ex-wife, actress Alice Evans, by calling his new love – fiancée Bianca Wallace – to testify against her in court.
The former Mrs. Gruffudd, 56, and the future Mrs. Gruffudd, 32, will face off in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom next month. The actor wants Wallace to testify about how Evans “stalked, harassed and abused” her in violation of a legal restraining order.
This is the latest explosive episode in a heated war between Gruffudd and Evans that has been raging since their split in 2021.
In new court documents obtained by DailyMail.com, Gruffudd, 50, also casts scorn on Evans’ recent claims that she was broke, unable to feed the couple’s two young children and about to be on food stamps. He calls his ex’s claims that she was poor “exaggerated and untrue.”
And he accuses her of once setting up a GoFundMe page on which she said she was “destitute” and begged for “anything she could spare” — when in reality 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 ex-wife Alice Evans have had some happy times, but they have been battling in court for years over their divorce, which was finalised in July last year.
In the legal documents, the Welsh actor – whose last film, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, grossed more than $400 million worldwide – complains that a court-ordered plan to reunite him with his daughters in therapy sessions has been sabotaged by Evans, meaning he has spent just nine hours with Ella, 14, and Elsie, 10, so far in 2024.
Gruffudd’s new statements come in response to his ex’s request to the court for an interim order, which will force him to pay more maintenance temporarily to help her until a full spousal and child maintenance case has taken place, which could take months.
The interim relief hearing is scheduled for September 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 repeatedly violated a three-year domestic violence restraining order (DVRO) she and Gruffudd filed in August 2022 after receiving a flood of vicious and derogatory text messages, emails and social media posts from her.
Evans, he writes in the new documents, “engaged in a pattern of harmful and defamatory conduct toward me, designed to intimidate and bully me and my fiancée, Bianca Wallace, while alienating our two young children.”
Gruffudd says he has spent just 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 she threw herself on the floor and pretended to have a panic attack
“Evans has been waging a smear campaign against me for years,” he wrote.
“She has a history of spreading lies about me… I will provide evidence of her continued violation of said DVRO.”
Earlier this year, Gruffudd reportedly agreed to pay Evans $7,000 a month in spousal support and $3,000 in child support. Evans claimed no payments were made in May and June
But Gruffudd disagrees with his ex’s claims that he is broke. In legal documents, he says he has paid “$400,000 in excess child support over and above what was required” in his prenuptial agreement with Evans.
He attacks Evans for “the false narrative that she and the children have been left completely destitute.”
“Alice has misrepresented her income and earnings and is required to make thousands of dollars in unidentified deposits each month. Alice continues to live with inflated monthly expenses,” he alleges.
‘From January 2023 through May 2024, Alice spent approximately $270,000 on lavish spending (approximately $15,800 per month).’
He says when Evans posted online in March 2022 that she was homeless, his forensic accountants discovered she actually had nearly $157,000 in the bank at the time.
Evan claimed her ex bought his fiancée Wallace a Rolex watch while she was struggling to put food on the table for his 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. She stated that she was broke and asked the public for “anything they could spare”… during that same time period, Alice had $86,457.50 available from her personal accounts.”
Gruffudd recounts when Evans sent him a message last November saying: ‘Your children Ella and Elsie are suffering from lack of money (very little food, no extras). As their mother I can’t make stockings or decorate for Santa this year.’
He says she had an income of $26,000 that November.
In particular, he distances himself from 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 (referring to a published internet photo of Bianca wearing a Rolex).
“Her claims about poverty are completely exaggerated and incorrect, but my travels were also to do various jobs in different locations,” he fumes.
‘As for my fiancé and I allegedly purchasing Rolex watches, that is completely untrue and based solely on an Instagram post by Bianca where she tried on a friend’s watch and posed for the camera. I did not purchase a Rolex watch for Bianca.’
In his statement, Gruffudd, who says Wallace could testify at next month’s hearing into the Rolex watch incident, blamed Evans for destroying 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 “reunion therapy” with their father. He ruled that the feuding former couple could not insult or call each other names in front of their children, and that they could not do anything during therapy sessions that would upset the children.
The hearing is scheduled for September 9, when Wallace will be one of six people on Gruffudd’s witness list. She is expected to testify that Evans has repeatedly breached 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 bank account
But Gruffudd complains in his statement: ‘Alice interfered by trying to [therapist’s] during my session, where she violated the restraining order and suddenly threw herself to the ground, claiming she was having a panic attack.’
He accuses Evans of “arguing with the therapist in front of the children, claiming the therapist favored me, and making excuses as to why she couldn’t bring the children to sessions.”
“I believe it was Alice’s own continued interference and alienation that caused the reunification therapy to be unsuccessful.”
Gruffudd adds that although he ‘went to every session… none of the sessions were completed in full. I spent nine hours with the children this year.’
Gruffudd – who met Evans when they starred together 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 was abandoning her and their two daughters.
Their divorce was finalized last July. However, the issues of spousal and child support have yet to be resolved. The girls currently live with their mother and last May she and Gruffudd reached a custody agreement, the details of which were sealed by the court.
But in his new court document, Gruffud writes that Evans “has threatened to overturn our entire custody arrangement, exposing our children to ongoing conflict without regard for their best interests.”