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Why is Alice Evans Gruffudd homeless?

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Englishsummerblues · 14/05/2025 23:19

Doesn’t she have any famous friends? Where has all her money gone? Does she have to live in L.A? It just all seems bizarre, just move somewhere cheaper.

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3luckystars · 15/05/2025 11:57

None of really know anything about it. I hope she gets help.

marshmallowmix · 15/05/2025 11:57

She needs to get off SM and get a job and move to a cheaper area...she has had more money given to her than most of us can dream of...

She comes across as very, very unreasonable and not nice at all....

thegirlwithemousyhair · 15/05/2025 11:58

Butchyrestingface · 15/05/2025 11:36

She's 57 this yr and her stock has been falling for a long time now

Hadn't realised she was mid 40s when the younger girl was born.

Yeah thats probably why she gave him an ultimatum when she was 38 "marry me or take a hike"..

YellowDuster12 · 15/05/2025 11:59

CandidHedgehog · 15/05/2025 11:19

This. He’s offered an excellent settlement when his actual income / their actual savings are taken into account.

He’s paid hundreds of thousands more than legally required while his new partner / wife pays their rent.

Alice wants to be taken care of for life in luxury. He simply doesn’t have the money.

At the time she got involved with him, she was 31 and living with a wealthy partner. He was 26 and being touted as the next big star. It didn’t work out for him like that - maybe due to Harvey Weinstein, maybe for some other reason, I don’t know - and she’s never forgiven him.

He’s a jobbing actor. He’s paid well but not multiple millions. He can’t fund the A list movie star lifestyle she wants because he isn’t one.

When I saw the transcripts of her abusing him for not having been a bigger star, saying she should have gone for someone else, trying to turn his friends against him by saying they never liked him, saying she was embarrassed by him, my heart broken.

ThisCyanPoet · 15/05/2025 11:59

She launched her gofundme and made tons of posts on social media saying she was broke, had no food, was being evicted, needed money for legal fees etc, sold that story to the Daily Mail a few times and was encouraging responses that were saying your ex should do more, how can he leave you with no money for food.

Court documents subsequently revealed that during this time, she actually had over $80,000 in her accounts. This was confirmed by forensic accountants and copies of her bank statements were attached to the filings. It was also confirmed that he has paid all of her legal fees and still continues to do so.

Ioan hasn’t spoken publicly about any of it, he has filed with the court and attached tons of evidence, including over 5,000 pages that show her breaching the restraining order and emails she sent to a friend stating that she would drag it out and drain all their funds.

Her responses to the court show not one piece of evidence to contract his filings or that he hasnt sought to end the marriage and finalise the custody arrangement as amicably as possible.

He chose to step back until the children can independently have a relationship with him to protect them and minimise any further distress for them.

There are transcripts that he has submitted to the court where the youngest child filmed an argument between her sister and Alice. She was upset that Alice was drinking on her birthday when she promised that she wouldn’t. In response, Alice called her a “tedious bitch”.

Another transcript shows Alice screaming that the babies (their children) can “stick up for her or fuck off”

She is an awful human being who has gone scorched earth because he dared to leave her. She has destroyed everything in her path to get at him, including their children.

she’s reduced his income by emailing his directors, producers and others in the industry and made it very hard for him to get work, yet she is then all over the internet crying that he doesn’t pay her enough…..

TallulahBetty · 15/05/2025 11:59

Why on earth doesn't she get a job? Any job! It's not like the kids are toddlers

lifeonmars100 · 15/05/2025 11:59

I have never heard of her, is she a habituee of the Daily Mail's sidebar of z listers?

DaisyChain505 · 15/05/2025 11:59

Azureshores · 15/05/2025 11:42

I've just had a look on her Instagram page and found this post from a follower which maybe gives a little more insight into the situation than some of the "oh she's crazy/mentally ill responses":

My understanding from previous court rulings is that the prenup should be paying out more but the judge made an interim decision on an amount that is much less than it should be. I hope that it gets sorted out and that Alice starts to get the money she is owed not just for the kids but for herself.

No idea if her ex husband is deliberately not working or if it is just that his career has spiralled since Covid, but clearly he and his second wife continue to live a lifestyle that he is unprepared/unwilling to provide for his kids.

I bet you anything he spends more money each month on PR/protecting his image than he does on both kids combined.

Some people are telling their mother to get a job while overlooking the fact that she has been finding work, but it has to work around the children given that she has 100% physical custody.

Also this isn’t about Alice not sorting out a house, she clearly has found places but has been left in a financial situation that makes it more difficult to secure a lease.

It’s all very well saying ‘come back to the U.K.’ but the costs involved are likely prohibiting her doing so and also, why should her kids suffer from a move away from their home city, schools and friends?

Meanwhile their dad is nicely set up in a far more luxurious apartment with his second wife, taking lots of holidays and has none of the burden that comes with being a full time parent. Which incidentally he never has been. The way he so easily separated himself from the real hard work of family involvement, before and after his divorce, speaks volumes about a man who had all the freedom in the world to pursue his own interests because he knew that a woman was taking on the burden of raising his kids.

The fact that he moved his new girlfriend of only a few weeks into the flat he had set up for himself and his kids also speaks volumes about how much he cared.

This isn’t Alice saying this. It’s an observation based upon all the obvious facts of this sorry situation.

I agree it's sad for her kids to be having this all played out in public though.

He pays less now because he over paid by 400k. (All proven and backed up in the court papers)

Alice could have used this money to purchased a property but she didn’t. Ioan said in court he didn’t think the property where Alice was choosing to live was wise because of the cost but she ignored this because she wants the Beverley Hills postcode.

Alice’s problem is that she thinks she deserves to be handed a certain type of life and shouldn’t have to lift a finger for it.

She’s happy to show off her deliveries of fish on dry ice straight from New York or the jew headshots of her daughter that she’s paid thousands for but will then plead poverty. It just makes no sense.

Also a very serious point to remember is that when she first put out her GoFundMe pleading poverty and begging she actually have over 85k in her current account. (Her financial statements shown in court proved this)

There are far too many people who know little or nothing about the actual evidence and facts and have just clung onto the “Poor Alice got cheated on and dumped” narrative and they use this to excuse her poor behaviour.

Butchyrestingface · 15/05/2025 12:00

thegirlwithemousyhair · 15/05/2025 11:58

Yeah thats probably why she gave him an ultimatum when she was 38 "marry me or take a hike"..

He should have made like little Dick Whittington and his cat at this point.

Evilspiritgin · 15/05/2025 12:01

If people don’t want to go on tattle to read the court documents, you can also look for Andrea Burkhart on x

YellowDuster12 · 15/05/2025 12:02

StressedLP1 · 15/05/2025 11:39

Yeah, this is not a ‘cute engagement story’.

Shes clearly abusive.

That said, he was also a dick trying to force team his kids and new girlfriend when they were still raw and he should have put them first.

Poor kids.

He tried to do things slowly, however when Alice got wind of the new gf (through stalking Instagram) she waited until he was on the phone with one of the girls and leaned in to yell 'BIANCA WALLACE' and then told her children daddy didn't love them anymore because he was in love with a bogan from Australia who was using him to 'become a star'. Utterly sickening.

YellowDuster12 · 15/05/2025 12:06

ThisCyanPoet · 15/05/2025 11:59

She launched her gofundme and made tons of posts on social media saying she was broke, had no food, was being evicted, needed money for legal fees etc, sold that story to the Daily Mail a few times and was encouraging responses that were saying your ex should do more, how can he leave you with no money for food.

Court documents subsequently revealed that during this time, she actually had over $80,000 in her accounts. This was confirmed by forensic accountants and copies of her bank statements were attached to the filings. It was also confirmed that he has paid all of her legal fees and still continues to do so.

Ioan hasn’t spoken publicly about any of it, he has filed with the court and attached tons of evidence, including over 5,000 pages that show her breaching the restraining order and emails she sent to a friend stating that she would drag it out and drain all their funds.

Her responses to the court show not one piece of evidence to contract his filings or that he hasnt sought to end the marriage and finalise the custody arrangement as amicably as possible.

He chose to step back until the children can independently have a relationship with him to protect them and minimise any further distress for them.

There are transcripts that he has submitted to the court where the youngest child filmed an argument between her sister and Alice. She was upset that Alice was drinking on her birthday when she promised that she wouldn’t. In response, Alice called her a “tedious bitch”.

Another transcript shows Alice screaming that the babies (their children) can “stick up for her or fuck off”

She is an awful human being who has gone scorched earth because he dared to leave her. She has destroyed everything in her path to get at him, including their children.

she’s reduced his income by emailing his directors, producers and others in the industry and made it very hard for him to get work, yet she is then all over the internet crying that he doesn’t pay her enough…..

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I'm honestly so impressed by Ioan and Bianca's classiness in this whole situation, at any point they could have easily done a public tell-all interview to set the record straight, but they haven't. They have put the interests of the kids first, and let the court documents speak for themselves.

Bianca hadn't publicly shared her MS diagnosis, when Alice found out and told everyone herself. 'Are you seriously telling me you hope my husband will have a baby with a woman with MS, who he will have to look after when she gets older? Is that what you want for my kids?'

At an MS event, the interviewer asked Bianca about how she had shared her diagnosis with the world, she replied something very neutral about how it hadn't necessarily been the time she'd have chosen to share it, but she's glad it is out there now so she can be an advocate and speak openly about the challenges of living with MS. She could easily have said 'well actually, my partner's insane ex outed me to the world out of sheer spite', but she didn't.

kellygoeswest · 15/05/2025 12:06

YellowDuster12 · 15/05/2025 12:02

He tried to do things slowly, however when Alice got wind of the new gf (through stalking Instagram) she waited until he was on the phone with one of the girls and leaned in to yell 'BIANCA WALLACE' and then told her children daddy didn't love them anymore because he was in love with a bogan from Australia who was using him to 'become a star'. Utterly sickening.

I remember this clearly. Alice had, and still has, absolutely zero regard for her daughters feelings and repeatedly puts her own selfish, impulsive needs before theirs.

Also just to correct the user who was saying Alice's behaviour started after "Ioan cheated". There is heaps of evidence in the court filings of abuse during the marriage.

I also recall when Ioan first left Alice she was online accusing him of being gay and suggesting that was the reason he probably really left her!! Until she found out about Bianca and started directing her anger towards her.

CandidHedgehog · 15/05/2025 12:07

YellowDuster12 · 15/05/2025 11:59

When I saw the transcripts of her abusing him for not having been a bigger star, saying she should have gone for someone else, trying to turn his friends against him by saying they never liked him, saying she was embarrassed by him, my heart broken.

She’s also massively damaged his earning capacity - he’s not a megastar. For each part he has had (except possibly for the brief period where he had lead roles in movies in the early 2000s), he will have been considered alongside multiple other actors of similar age / background.

Recently, he’s not been working. I doubt he’s been turning work down - the people doing the casting have been choosing an actor at a similar level where there is no risk of the TV show / film being trashed all over social media by a deranged ex wife.

And who can blame them. I wouldn’t watch a show where the lead was an abuser and that’s what Alice has been portraying him as (classic DARVO).

YellowDuster12 · 15/05/2025 12:08

DaisyChain505 · 15/05/2025 11:59

He pays less now because he over paid by 400k. (All proven and backed up in the court papers)

Alice could have used this money to purchased a property but she didn’t. Ioan said in court he didn’t think the property where Alice was choosing to live was wise because of the cost but she ignored this because she wants the Beverley Hills postcode.

Alice’s problem is that she thinks she deserves to be handed a certain type of life and shouldn’t have to lift a finger for it.

She’s happy to show off her deliveries of fish on dry ice straight from New York or the jew headshots of her daughter that she’s paid thousands for but will then plead poverty. It just makes no sense.

Also a very serious point to remember is that when she first put out her GoFundMe pleading poverty and begging she actually have over 85k in her current account. (Her financial statements shown in court proved this)

There are far too many people who know little or nothing about the actual evidence and facts and have just clung onto the “Poor Alice got cheated on and dumped” narrative and they use this to excuse her poor behaviour.

That post you've quoted is a perfect example of how Alice has tried to twist the facts, control the narrative, and paint herself as the poor jilted abandoned wife of a man that ran off with a twentysomething year old girlfriend and stopped supporting his kids.

At this point I have no time for anyone who still believes Alice's fabrications. The evidence has been out there for years at this point. Anyone who chooses to support an abuser at this point is doing so willingly.

Goalie55 · 15/05/2025 12:09

She’s let her bitterness consume her completely. Her marriage, her career, his career. There’s a point you need to let go.
Im guessing neither were happy in the marriage but she needed the control.

I have a friend who was in an unhappy marriage, they split, both remarried, but she’s consumed in hatred for him. It made her an unpleasant person,

clearly giving her more money is a
waste of time, there will never be enough.

YellowDuster12 · 15/05/2025 12:10

kellygoeswest · 15/05/2025 12:06

I remember this clearly. Alice had, and still has, absolutely zero regard for her daughters feelings and repeatedly puts her own selfish, impulsive needs before theirs.

Also just to correct the user who was saying Alice's behaviour started after "Ioan cheated". There is heaps of evidence in the court filings of abuse during the marriage.

I also recall when Ioan first left Alice she was online accusing him of being gay and suggesting that was the reason he probably really left her!! Until she found out about Bianca and started directing her anger towards her.

God, I just remembered when his eldest daughter hacked his instagram and posted profanities saying 'I abandoned my kids to make Bianca a STAR'.

I don't blame either daughter, anyone would lose their mind being trapped with Alice for years, little contact with the outside world, grieving a father they loved who they now believe hates them and doesn't give a toss about them. She has successfully weaponised them against him, and I feel the long term cost to the girls will be catastrophic. She's interfered with the schooling of their eldest to such an extent I would be surprised if she is able to go to university. It's dark but I do feel that's all part of Alice's plan. She doesn't want the girls to ever leave her and form their own lives. They might contact their dad, after all.

Notatallanamechange · 15/05/2025 12:10

YellowDuster12 · 15/05/2025 12:02

He tried to do things slowly, however when Alice got wind of the new gf (through stalking Instagram) she waited until he was on the phone with one of the girls and leaned in to yell 'BIANCA WALLACE' and then told her children daddy didn't love them anymore because he was in love with a bogan from Australia who was using him to 'become a star'. Utterly sickening.

She also told the eldest that she was being taken out of the private school they could no longer afford because ‘Daddy has to give the money to Bianca to finance her career’ and had her parrot this back to him.

After receiving the restraining order and breaching it a detective for the local police confirmed with Bianca and Ioan that accounts set up on Twitter spouting the most heinous abuse at them were in fact linked to her mobile number and email address. Which was verified in the DVRO with the images provided by the police of them attempting to reset the password and the email or telephone recovery for doing so being hers…

This is all out there, in public records. It’s astounding that her supporters never mention this.

She is an abuser and she does not care. And now the eldest has a headshot posted on Alice’s Instagram. I’m assuming that’s her next bank, rather than getting a job and allowing her daughter an education.

BrightBrickSnail · 15/05/2025 12:10

YellowDuster12 · 15/05/2025 11:59

When I saw the transcripts of her abusing him for not having been a bigger star, saying she should have gone for someone else, trying to turn his friends against him by saying they never liked him, saying she was embarrassed by him, my heart broken.

Thing is, alleged cheating aside he seems like quite a nice chap. And I remember him being very popular when he was in Hornblower, he’s not a bad looking guy (albeit not my type). I wonder if he had stayed in the U.K. if he would have had more success.

YellowDuster12 · 15/05/2025 12:11

Notatallanamechange · 15/05/2025 12:10

She also told the eldest that she was being taken out of the private school they could no longer afford because ‘Daddy has to give the money to Bianca to finance her career’ and had her parrot this back to him.

After receiving the restraining order and breaching it a detective for the local police confirmed with Bianca and Ioan that accounts set up on Twitter spouting the most heinous abuse at them were in fact linked to her mobile number and email address. Which was verified in the DVRO with the images provided by the police of them attempting to reset the password and the email or telephone recovery for doing so being hers…

This is all out there, in public records. It’s astounding that her supporters never mention this.

She is an abuser and she does not care. And now the eldest has a headshot posted on Alice’s Instagram. I’m assuming that’s her next bank, rather than getting a job and allowing her daughter an education.

Her supporters are abusers.

Cakeandusername · 15/05/2025 12:12

The I’m homeless is an attempt to try and embarrass him into paying for housing. But he’s not that a big star to garner a headline movie star makes his children homeless, it would be sidebar daily mail territory and the divorce/settlement is so drawn out with all financials available that she doesn’t realise most people haven’t got sympathy given amounts she’s received to date and is still receiving plus lack of job on her part.
It may well backfire. If she starts posting sofa surfing on instagram and can’t provide a home for 2 minors then court will look at them living with dad or dad perhaps funding a sixth form boarding school (or us equivalent) for the 16 yr old. The court didn’t believe a word of the eldest daughter’s application that he and gf had been abusive, it read as them trying to stop them running into street. The photos of little one comforting older sister outside court are awful. Those poor children.

YellowDuster12 · 15/05/2025 12:12

Notatallanamechange · 15/05/2025 12:10

She also told the eldest that she was being taken out of the private school they could no longer afford because ‘Daddy has to give the money to Bianca to finance her career’ and had her parrot this back to him.

After receiving the restraining order and breaching it a detective for the local police confirmed with Bianca and Ioan that accounts set up on Twitter spouting the most heinous abuse at them were in fact linked to her mobile number and email address. Which was verified in the DVRO with the images provided by the police of them attempting to reset the password and the email or telephone recovery for doing so being hers…

This is all out there, in public records. It’s astounding that her supporters never mention this.

She is an abuser and she does not care. And now the eldest has a headshot posted on Alice’s Instagram. I’m assuming that’s her next bank, rather than getting a job and allowing her daughter an education.

She has also been trying to set her eldest up as a model for ages now. Constantly banging on about how tall and gorgeous she is (a fourteen year old) and how often she's approached by scouts. She wants to get her into modelling so she continues to not need to work. No concern at all for how predatory and dangerous the modelling industry can be for teens and young adults, no concern about supporting her kids to get into a reputable profession or an education.

Lesleyann25 · 15/05/2025 12:14

Lesleyann25 · 15/05/2025 07:53

He is a total plank and his public displays of affection are vomit inducing. So fake

Fortunately no I am not Alice. What kind of 50 odd year old bloke prances around like a kid from love island. Sad as feck

thegirlwithemousyhair · 15/05/2025 12:17

CandidHedgehog · 15/05/2025 12:07

She’s also massively damaged his earning capacity - he’s not a megastar. For each part he has had (except possibly for the brief period where he had lead roles in movies in the early 2000s), he will have been considered alongside multiple other actors of similar age / background.

Recently, he’s not been working. I doubt he’s been turning work down - the people doing the casting have been choosing an actor at a similar level where there is no risk of the TV show / film being trashed all over social media by a deranged ex wife.

And who can blame them. I wouldn’t watch a show where the lead was an abuser and that’s what Alice has been portraying him as (classic DARVO).

She’s also massively damaged his earning capacity

I'm sure that's one of the main reasons why she's doing all this stuff.
Bitter and resentful and determined to make his life an ongoing hell.

Kbroughton · 15/05/2025 12:17

CandidHedgehog · 15/05/2025 11:45

They’d been living apart while he worked in Australia from 2018. For whatever reason, Alice and the girls didn’t join him.

He’d effectively ‘moved out by himself’ 3 years earlier. How long was he supposed to wait?

But not from the girls perspective I would imagine. While it may have been in practice, for them their Mum and Dad had just split up. In answer to your question, one year. How difficult would it really have been for him to have a flat by himself and on the few occasion he had his daughters with him, not have his new relationship there? Not difficult at all. One year in the grand scheme of life would have made little difference to him, considering he could live with his new partners most of the time anyway, and everything to his daughters. That is part of being a parent - putting your needs aside, not forever you have to have your own life, but certainly he could have for a short period of time. I cannot tell you how much I would have loved to have been horrible considering what I was put through. But I didnt. Just because one partner is an arse doesnt mean you have to be. I am proud of how I handled myself and my daughter will see that when she is older.

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