Alice Evans is a 'total nightmare' and 'out of control'. Friends of Ioan Gruffudd tell KATIE HIND his side of the story, reveal the truth about the Rolex row... and brand his 'cruel' ex's claims of poverty 'just nonsense'

When Ioan Gruffudd's fiancee Bianca Wallace posted a image of herself wearing a caller Rolex watch, small did she cognize it would spark specified a monolithic row.

A hardworking actress, she saw thing incorrect pinch a small unit therapy each truthful often.

But Wallace's show of pridefulness successful her latest acquisition spawned yet different section successful nan long-running feud betwixt British character Ioan and his ex-wife Alice Evans.

For Alice, who is nan mother of Ioan's 2 daughters, has been claiming she is poorness stricken because, she alleges, nan Welsh heartthrob hasn't been paying her nan attraction payments she is due.

She says her ex has paid her thing astatine all, either successful kid aliases spousal support - thing he denies - since April, and past week revenge a ineligible petition for 'public assistance' pending a proceeding complete attraction payments group for later this year.

In nan circumstances, nan show of Bianca pinch a watch connected her wrist worthy thousands of pounds - to spell on pinch nan stunning engagement ringing that Ioan bought her erstwhile he projected successful January - has only served to substance her rage.

Friends of Ioan, who opportunity they are incapable to guidelines by arsenic she spouts specified 'unfounded and untrue' claims, opportunity he is arsenic furious. They picture British-American character Alice, 55, arsenic a 'total nightmare', who is 'determined to damage' her ex 'as overmuch arsenic she can'.

They insist that he has paid 'more than what nan tribunal ruled', has made payments since April, and opportunity her pleas of poorness are 'just nonsense'.

They besides constituent retired that Bianca is entitled to walk immoderate she likes connected immoderate she wants, including an costly watch.

One tells nan Mail: 'If anything, Ioan has overpaid Alice what nan tribunal ruled. He wants to guarantee nan champion for his children and would make judge they were looked aft wholly arsenic they should be.

'For Alice to opportunity different to that is wholly wrong. And what Bianca spends her ain money connected is her business; to commencement bringing into things is really silly.

'She is her ain female who has her ain money. It feels for illustration a past ditch effort to person a pop. 

'Alice comes crossed arsenic very bitter and jealous. While these things are ne'er easy to navigate, this is getting retired of control. It is becoming a desperately sad situation. You'd deliberation Alice would cognize erstwhile to beryllium quiet.

'It's verging connected being very cruel.'

But cruelty has been nan underlying taxable of this divorce, which went nationalist successful January 2021, erstwhile Alice took to Twitter (now X) to uncover that her hubby of 14 years was leaving her.

'My beloved husband/soulmate of 20 years Ioan Gruffudd has announced that he is to time off his family starting adjacent week. Me and our young daughters girls [sic] are very confused.

'We haven't been fixed a logic isolated from 'he nary longer loves me'. I'm truthful sorry.'

When that tweet disappeared, she posted another, saying that he had deleted her announcement. She wrote: 'Hell yes, erstwhile I americium being gaslit and mentally tortured, past hellhole yes, I will lavation my linen successful public.'

As nan latest move of events shows, she surely meant it.

The Rolex incident marks only nan latest sad move successful a saga that had specified promising beginnings.

Ioan and Alice met connected nan group of 102 Dalmatians much than 20 years ago, erstwhile they played onscreen emotion interests Chloe and Kevin. They past fell successful emotion successful existent life and, connected New Year's Day, 2006, he popped nan question.

A lavish wedding successful Mexico followed and past on came Ella, now 14, and past ten-year-old Elsie. They settled successful Los Angeles, wherever they became known arsenic 1 of Hollywood's much nosy couples and quickly accumulated tons of friends.

But cracks began to look successful their marriage. Then began nan warfare of words, which escalated swiftly - and arsenic nan fallout raged, nan gloves came off.

According to Ioan's friends, portion of nan problem was that Alice had a inclination to tweet aft having had a fewer drinks. 

She was besides prone to posting rambling messages connected video-sharing website Cameo, wherever she sold messages to fans for £30. 

At 1 constituent she conceded that she was 'probably drinking excessively much'.

'Alice was intelligibly hurting but she would regularly spell onto Twitter and post,' says a friend of her ex-husband. 'At times it was very unseemly, and it was hurtful. There were children successful nan mediate of it.

'Ioan took nan position that he would support a honorable soundlessness connected it all.'

In a bid to extremity what he saw arsenic a run of abuse, Gruffudd took ineligible action, and successful tribunal papers claimed that Alice had branded him a 'child abuser' connected societal media. 

He besides accused her of mounting up anonymous societal media accounts, arsenic galore arsenic 22 connected Twitter/X, which she would usage to lambast him to her followers.

In tribunal documents past year, Ioan, 49, claimed Alice called him an 'abusive c***' and truthful breached a restraining order, which had been successful spot for 3 years.

He besides alleged that Alice flashed her 'bare behind' erstwhile he dropped disconnected their children astatine her Los Angeles home.

Ioan claimed: 'Since May 26, location person been a number of anonymous societal media accounts group up - 22 connected Twitter - naming Bianca and myself 'child abusers', and making incredibly slanderous and 23 defamatory claims.'

Friends opportunity it was 'clear arsenic anything' what she was doing. 

One pal of Ioan's said: 'Alice is trying to make this arsenic difficult arsenic imaginable now. 

'At this complaint it feels arsenic if it will ne'er end. There person been specified chaotic accusations being made; let's not hide each of nan Twitter posts which nan judge had to show her to stop.

'Why would you want to put your children successful a business wherever they person to publication each of that? They are astatine an property wherever they tin spot each of this. It is difficult to understand why anyone would do that. It's crazy; nary of this has been bully for their use astatine all.

'We are successful an property wherever this worldly stays connected nan net for ever; if they are not reference it now past what is to opportunity that they won't publication it successful years to come.'

'He has tried to get them thief and to guarantee that they are looked aft properly. He has pushed for them to person therapy. 

'Those girls are what matter nan astir to Ioan and it is really devastating for him to spot this happening.'

As for nan future, Ioan's friends opportunity they fearfulness that their fallout will 'never spell away' and will proceed to plague nan already fractured family for nan foreseeable future.

'Alice is conscionable going to support coming backmost astatine immoderate opportunity location is,' says a friend of nan Hornblower star.

'She is truthful angry and she doesn't look to person a batch other going connected correct now. We tin only dream that Alice finds a measurement to find her ain happiness.'