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Ioan Gruffudd daughter in news

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HelenaBellena · 08/06/2023 06:43

Again this is in the news with him getting a restraining order. I always thought Alice was nuts but I've been reading that Ioan isn't as nice as he makes out. And those silly staged pics of him and his girlfriend.

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MrsLangOnionsMcWeetabix · 08/06/2023 07:49

Alice was abusive to the extent that a court granted a permanent domestic violence restraining order. She can’t clear the air with him because she has behaved so badly she’s not allowed anywhere near him.

cuckyplunt · 08/06/2023 07:52

If my DH left me for another woman, I would not have to poison my teenage DDs against him. They would be old enough to hate him all by themselves because of the hurt he’d have caused to me and our family.

BastetsWhiskers · 08/06/2023 07:56

I thought that the daughter has now taken out a restraining order against Ioin because of an altercation?

This is such a messy situation :(

Ihaveshitfriends · 08/06/2023 07:56

It’s makes me laugh the way that Alice bangs on about being a lone parent when the girls had a nanny!! Her social media outbursts are an indication of how she acts at home which is frightening unhinged and he is a pathetic twerp who has been led by his cock. Hopefully they don’t spend all their money on lawyers as they’ll need it for therapy for their kids. A plague on all their houses!!

QuintanaRoo · 08/06/2023 07:59

I guess we all have different experiences which shape our views on things. My mum left my dad for another man. But i didn’t hate her for the upset and hurt she caused our family as I could see she must have been unhappy to leave. I get that isn’t always the case and sometimes people leave a relationship just because they think the grass is greener, etc. I suppose my point is nobody really knows which camp he falls into. On the surface it looks like the latter but it may not have been and he’s certainly said there were major issues before he met Bianca.

Screwballs · 08/06/2023 07:59

Alice is a raving lunatic, and if you read the restraining order (assuming its wholly truthful), the kid sounds like she was being an absolute brat "I was so upset, I threw milk on his bed, I poured mustard on the floor and I threw raw oatmeal on him". And this is just what she is admitting to whilst trying to sound like the wounded party!

"My dad had the court order the overnight while his girlfriend was living with him", so the court clearly saw nothing wrong about the father living with his partner and having the children. Shes a bloody 13 YO child, shes no right to be dictating to everyone who can be in their own homes that having a toddler tantrum because she hasnt gotten her own way, I stand by her dad in that respect.

This is absolutely PA. Dad is a complete tit of a man having a lovely little mid crisis, but Alice is absolutely off her rocker, poisonous bitter woman using the girls as weapons against their father. Disgusting.

MichelleScarn · 08/06/2023 08:01

drpet49 · 08/06/2023 07:40

Alice made her own shitty choices and now it’s everyone else’s fault. Funny that.

Quite, and anyone who's seen what Alice posted on multiple sm platforms will generally save their sympathy for the dc.
Why did she need to sacrifice her career when they've always had live in nannies?

xXiXx · 08/06/2023 08:01

cuckyplunt · 08/06/2023 07:52

If my DH left me for another woman, I would not have to poison my teenage DDs against him. They would be old enough to hate him all by themselves because of the hurt he’d have caused to me and our family.

This. I not only "allowed" my dc to see their abusive father but took the children to see him. He couldn't be a good man or a good father though and they have checked out of the relationship now. I think that is far less damaging though. They saw him for who he is and thought "no thank you". If they felt, at younger years, that he had looked at them and thought "no thank you" they would be more damaged by the experience.

It is hard to know what's going on with the Evans gruffud family. Usually celeb families have enough money to take the sting out of separation. She has reacted very badly to his decision to leave, but I think he has not tried to "compensate" for the indignity of dumping her by assuring her that she can stay in their home, be primary parent. He wants to take her down in the media in a court of public opinion, and the girls are passengers to his covert take down. I think they are different types of narcissist.

Screwballs · 08/06/2023 08:02

cuckyplunt · 08/06/2023 07:52

If my DH left me for another woman, I would not have to poison my teenage DDs against him. They would be old enough to hate him all by themselves because of the hurt he’d have caused to me and our family.

Or maybe, heres a thing, they should be encouraged not to be involved in the failure of your relationship and to maintain their own relationship with their own father. Disgusting to seem somewhat proud that your children would turn their back on their dad because your have hurty feels.

Jifmicroliquid · 08/06/2023 08:09

So the kid had a tantrum about the GF being there, chucked milk on a bed and threw food around, like a toddler, and then basically didn’t like being told her behaviour was out of order.
Shes 13, not 3.

QuintanaRoo · 08/06/2023 08:09

I think it’s a bit harsh in this situation to call a 13yo a brat. She’s been brought up thinking this sort of behaviour is acceptable

Screwballs · 08/06/2023 08:15

QuintanaRoo · 08/06/2023 08:09

I think it’s a bit harsh in this situation to call a 13yo a brat. She’s been brought up thinking this sort of behaviour is acceptable

I dont at all. If my children decided to start chucking food around my home and over me because they werent getting their own way, I'd think they were being a brat too. Shes 13, she testing boundaries. I bet she wouldnt think its ok to pull that sort of shit anywhere else.

Malificent1 · 08/06/2023 08:23

According to the application for the restraining order, Ioan blindsided the girls by having his girlfriend in the house when they went for an overnight visit, despite at least the older girl stating that she didn’t want to meet her. And it all kicked off from there.

He’s a narcissist who wants everyone to fall in line with his selfishness without a fuss, and Alice is an emotional mess and probably doing a very good job of parental alienation. Poor girls stuck in the middle of that.

I had never heard of any of them until their private lives were splashed all over the tabloids.

BriarHare · 08/06/2023 08:26

I feel very sorry for the children and Ioan in this mess.

I don’t think Alice is doing those girls any favours at all.

Saschka · 08/06/2023 08:30

MichelleScarn · 08/06/2023 08:01

Quite, and anyone who's seen what Alice posted on multiple sm platforms will generally save their sympathy for the dc.
Why did she need to sacrifice her career when they've always had live in nannies?

Because she was 45 when she had the youngest, and most women in Hollywood do not have successful careers after 40…

BastetsWhiskers · 08/06/2023 08:30

I do think Ioan should not be trying to force interaction between his daughters and his girlfriend at this stage.

hotjuneafternoon · 08/06/2023 08:34

Alice seems unhinged but Ioan should not have sprung a visit with the new girlfriend on them without their knowledge.

ToBeOrNotToBee · 08/06/2023 08:34

There is something very off with that man.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. He makes my skin crawl.

Screwballs · 08/06/2023 08:35

Malificent1 · 08/06/2023 08:23

According to the application for the restraining order, Ioan blindsided the girls by having his girlfriend in the house when they went for an overnight visit, despite at least the older girl stating that she didn’t want to meet her. And it all kicked off from there.

He’s a narcissist who wants everyone to fall in line with his selfishness without a fuss, and Alice is an emotional mess and probably doing a very good job of parental alienation. Poor girls stuck in the middle of that.

I had never heard of any of them until their private lives were splashed all over the tabloids.

Blindsided them by the live in girlfriend being in her home? Read between the lines, daughter told daddy she didnt want girlfriend there and daddy did not bow down to her demands. Thats not blindsiding, thats not being dictated to by a 13 year old.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11023761/Alice-Evans-shares-texts-estranged-husband-Ioan-Gruffudd-daughter.html

This article also shows daughter throwing her weight around, leaked by Alice.

He should stop the bloody pap walks though, I dont know what they think they are achieving looking all lovey, walking the dog like life is marvellous. Its absolutely only to wind Alice up.

Alice Evans shares texts between her estranged husband Ioan Gruffudd

Alice Evans has shared text messages she claims were sent by her estranged husband Ioan  Gruffudd to their eldest daughter.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11023761/Alice-Evans-shares-texts-estranged-husband-Ioan-Gruffudd-daughter.html

Quveas · 08/06/2023 08:37

HelenaBellena · 08/06/2023 06:56

I actually wondered whether Ioan is deliberately influencing the media (apparently he has a media friend) to depict Alice badly. Even the stories today seem to hint its her fault.

It's nobodies business. Everyone has complicated families. I bet you wouldn't like it if everyone here was turning over your life and speculating about it. Leave them alone.

Dashel · 08/06/2023 08:40

I wonder if the children would be better off with their grandparents? The parents both seem self centred and bitter.

Screwballs · 08/06/2023 08:40

Quveas · 08/06/2023 08:37

It's nobodies business. Everyone has complicated families. I bet you wouldn't like it if everyone here was turning over your life and speculating about it. Leave them alone.

They are both selling this to the media for money. No one is hiding outside their homes with a recording device trying to capture the gossip.

ThomasHardyPerennial · 08/06/2023 08:41

Bit of a stretch to say Alice had a successful career before the children came along. She didn't have much to "give up".

queenofarles · 08/06/2023 08:42

If my children decided to start chucking food around my home and over me because they werent getting their own way, I'd think they were being a brat too

it doesn’t just say that, there’s more to it, and that’s what led to the restraining order against the girlfriend ,

The children are lost in between these two horrible parents ,

Ioan sold their house , a very modest house that only costs around $2M , he said he can’t afford paying for it anymore , I just can’t imagine someone playing leading roles in big movies for the last 20 years cant afford to pay , he must have made millions .

Screamingabdabz · 08/06/2023 08:43

Goodness - the pick-me women hating on this thread! So man goes off and leaves his family but the wife is the one in the wrong? And people ‘feeling sorry for him’ - good Lord. 🙄