ALISON BOSHOFF: Alice Evans moves out of $2M home as ex Ioan Gruffudd is ‘too poor’ to pay for it
ALISON BOSHOFF: Alice Evans is moving out of a $2 million family home in California because ex Ioan Gruffudd is ‘too poor’ to pay for it amid their split
Tough times for actress Alice Evans, who is moving this weekend from the $2 million home she shared with actor husband Ioan Gruffudd.
The actress, 54, is on her way to a rented house with their two daughters Elsie, 11, and Ella, seven, after Gruffudd pleaded with a court to allow the house to be sold because he didn’t have the money to pay the bill. to keep a mortgage. payments for his family after their split in 2021.
The three-bedroom home in La Jolla, San Diego, is the only home his children have ever known.
Gruffudd, 49, now lives in Los Angeles with girlfriend Bianca Wallace, 29.
Time to go: Tough times for actress Alice Evans, who moves this weekend from the $2 million home she shared with actor husband Ioan Gruffudd
Financial troubles: Gruffudd pleaded with a court to allow the house to be sold as he didn’t have the money to keep up with mortgage payments for his family after their 2021 split
A friend says, “Alice is packing and it’s been a devastating time. She is very sorry that she and the children have to move, but there was no option.’
The Fantastic Four star told a court in a document filed last year that neither he nor Evans could afford the $6,750 a month in mortgage payments, insurance and property taxes.
He said he had had only one paid job in the past year and was so poor that he depended on handouts from his young girlfriend.
“The rent for my apartment is $3,400 a month; I live there with my girlfriend, who, due to my financial circumstances, has been paying most of our living expenses and all of our rent since September 2022,” he said.
He added, “I have explained these financial circumstances to Alice and have asked her through counsel numerous times since our divorce to help financially and agree to sell the La Jolla residence. . . but Alice has not consented to my requests.’
Gruffudd filed for divorce in March 2021 after Evans revealed on social media that her husband of 14 years abandoned her and their two daughters.
In September, he went public with Bianca, an Australian actress who was an extra in the TV drama Harrow, which starred Gruffudd.
Evans’ Instagram bio reads, “I’m so disappointed in so many people now that my life has suddenly changed for the worst.”
Fresh start: The actress, 54, is moving into a rented house with their two daughters Elsie, 11, and Ella, seven. The three-bedroom home in La Jolla, San Diego, is the only home his children have ever known (the family pictured in 2018)
Moved on: Gruffudd, 49, now lives in Los Angeles with girlfriend Bianca Wallace, 29
It comes after Ioan shared what it was like for him to navigate mounting public scrutiny in the wake of his split from estranged ex Alice.
Speaking to The Radio Times in January, Ioan was asked how he handled the publicity of their breakup.
He said he could handle it because he worked in show business from the age of 11, adding that dealing with that oversight was a contractual part of being an actor.
Ioan said: ‘Being in the public eye from a young age is an experience. I was on the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm from the age of 11, so people in that community knew who I was.
You can’t train for that control as an actor, but it’s been an essential part of what it is to be an actor. It’s a contract.’