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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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Croquembouchiere · 15/05/2025 08:03

I don't like either of this ex couple tbh. There was an article recently about her doing coke in front of the kids and bizarrely offering it to her children. I don't know how that can be true but coke does make people act like idiots, so maybe?

Ioan is certainly no prince though. It's all a bit sad. I quite liked him in Hornblower (think that was him). Haven't seen him in anything since that bit part in titanic. I'm honestly surprised they could ever afford the LA lifestyle! But maybe he's more famous than I realised

Munnygirl · 15/05/2025 08:04

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 15/05/2025 00:04

How come she (or they, when they were married) didn’t purchase a property years ago? She says on her Instagram that the average property in her area is $4500 per month, they have been renting their house for a long time apparently. A couple of people have messaged saying they have spare rooms after she put up a post requesting one 😵‍💫.

They did. He made her sell it so he could afford somewhere to live with his mistress

CalicoPusscat · 15/05/2025 08:05

It's an awful situation. People's circumstances DO change for the worse, I'm sure quite a few of us have been through that. It's not nice but it happens.

Alice has to accept she needs a more frugal lifestyle.

RedJamDoughnut · 15/05/2025 08:06

ForHeartyPeachOtter · 15/05/2025 07:37

They broke up and like a year later he met someone else. He didn’t leave her for another woman. By the sounds of it he left because of her appalling behaviour and I don’t begrudge him a new relationship.

I took it that he wanted to split up, she didn't.
They split.
She loses nice easy life.
He gets younger woman.
A year isnt going to soften the blow, she will be creating all kinds of scenarios like was he cheating - which destroys her past

Not everyone is resilient or has support. She put up a fight to try to keep the life she had. He is not anywhere rich enough to support that and why should he, he has a new life.

She lost the life she knew & the future she thought she was going to have.

On top of that she she seems to have a lot of followers support/hating all egging her on.

It easy to say move on but it's not that easy.

StMarie4me · 15/05/2025 08:07

RedJamDoughnut · 15/05/2025 06:13

He dumped her for another younger woman. Her life was destroyed. Some women can pick up and move on. She needs help & support.
Most of us don't get in the sidebar of shame when it happens to us.
It bloody hurts.

It does. Been there (tho it was richer woman, not younger). But my focus was on the children, and no one, no one ever saw any deranged behaviour from me, even though I was truly thinking of self harm and was financially and emotionally devastated.
My three children came through it all well adjusted. It was absolutely worth it.

radishgate · 15/05/2025 08:08

She’s an abusive, alcoholic, junkie who was/is still abusive, to both her ex husband and her two children. The, many, court transcripts make for a very distrusting read.

MrsPlantagenet · 15/05/2025 08:09

I think she’s awful and those poor children of hers deserve better. It’s embarrassing that she’s now scamming her dolt followers for cash.

MellowCritic · 15/05/2025 08:10

I dont know why she just doesn't go in the bb house next time or bag a tell all book deal. I would 🤣

MoominUnderWater · 15/05/2025 08:11

ClassicStripe · 15/05/2025 07:51

5th Officer Harold Lowe.

I can imagine it is stressful life living off going to Vampire Diary conventions. Neither of them can afford the Hollywood life style.

He was Hornblower back in the day. I’d say that was his most well known role.

Blinkingbother · 15/05/2025 08:15

She was unceremoniously dumped and has totally failed accept or to move on and quite obviously needs some professional help. He however, whatever the circs, chose to prioritise his next leaner younger model over his kids which makes him a complete tosser too. Poor, poor children.

Notatallanamechange · 15/05/2025 08:15

Munnygirl · 15/05/2025 08:04

They did. He made her sell it so he could afford somewhere to live with his mistress

It was sold when they divorced so they could split assets. Unfortunately she dragged this out at a point where financially they were struggling. She insisted on keeping a full time nanny for two children of school age, despite her not working. His ‘mistress’ ( I think you mean now wife, at the time girlfriend) actually paid all rent whilst this was happening, as he was paying the mortgage, all bills, credit cards for Alice and giving her money for the girls.

She would have had a healthy chunk if she hadn’t decided to let hate take over. But they both still walked away with sizeable pots. She just blew hers on renting an unnecessarily obscene rent, luxury items and bitterness.

She was literally issued with a Gavron Warning, which basically means the judge saying you aren’t entitled to live off your ex forever, you need to make prove-able efforts to find employment.

Also, FYI, his ex’s rent is substantially less than hers. Know this from her own legal filing for more money two weeks ago. Where she included details of his residence, DESPITE having a DVRO.

radishgate · 15/05/2025 08:16

Lesleyann25 · 15/05/2025 07:53

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

Hello Alice! 👋🏻

BoldBlueZebra · 15/05/2025 08:19

DelboytrottersDnecklace · 15/05/2025 07:38

He's the bloke in the titanic movie

At the end where they are looking for survivors,he's the bloke in the boat shouting to see if anyone is alive and rose blows her whistle at him

She starred in 102 Dalmatians (I think-ive never watched it)

They broke up when he left her for another woman (he claims it they met afterwards) and Alice went scorched earth

She's spent all their money,turned his dds against him,aired every single stain on their dirty washing,had destroyed his career,is always popping pills and drinking and goes on twitter/x rants

He is trying to look like the good guy-'it doesn't matter I left you and shacked up with another woman,I have a right to see my kids and let's forget everything that happened as im innocent of any wrongdoing,its all alices fault,i pay for my kids'

They are both to blame and both need a lot of help and she's brought this part on herself-she has been determined to drain his money

I feel for their kids-the poor sods are caught up in this shitty power play,they deserve better parents

If the parents where not famous,ss would have stepped in

I could be wrong on some of these details-id never heard of either of them until I read about them on here

Hmmmmm not sure I get all the interest in them. They’re a bit obscure. Thanks for the info though.

Bookloveruk · 15/05/2025 08:19

I feel for her but at some point she needs to move on. I really wonder where her family and friends are on this as they must be struggling seein mg her like this

Bumcake · 15/05/2025 08:20

BoldBlueZebra · 15/05/2025 05:58

Googled and still no idea who these people are

That’s odd, google is normally pretty reliable. I’d suggest you don’t bother with this thread then, it won’t mean much to you.

Tomatotater · 15/05/2025 08:20

Notatallanamechange · 15/05/2025 07:55

How do you feel about public displays of abuse and continued violations of restraining orders? How do you feel about having your daughter falsify a restraining order against her dad, leaving her in court to deal with it herself, and a judge having to explain gently the difference between truth and lie?

God that is horrific! I did read some things about her even when they were together, and she sounds controlling and abusive. People are allowed to leave unhappy marriages. It sounds like he was trapped in an abusive marriage, met someone else and left. He didnt string her along with an affair. She's gone full nuclear since then.

Needmorelego · 15/05/2025 08:25

I hate gossip about people I have never met but I once read that Alice refused Harvey Weinstein's advances. Weinstein told her that he would make sure that both her and her husband would "never work in Hollywood again".
I later read an interview with Ioan that he had struggled to get acting parts and became depressed because he couldn't support his wife and children.
I have no idea how true any of this is but if it is it's appalling how one (pervert) Hollywood producer can have that much influence.

Springersrock · 15/05/2025 08:25

I had sympathy for her at the beginning. Then I read the legal filings and whilst I don’t think Ioan has behaved without fault, she’s an absolute horror.

His most recent filing for a permanent DVRO is horrendous.

Butchyrestingface · 15/05/2025 08:30

She's a nutter, that doesn't help. And apparently allergic to any work that isn't acting, which is a problem now the acting gigs appear to have dried up.

BoldBlueZebra · 15/05/2025 08:32

Bumcake · 15/05/2025 08:20

That’s odd, google is normally pretty reliable. I’d suggest you don’t bother with this thread then, it won’t mean much to you.

Yeah I’m out thanks tho

TaylorSwish · 15/05/2025 08:33

DisapprovingSpaniel · 15/05/2025 07:23

She needs to put the drink down, stop the cocaine and get a job.

I doubt anyone would employ her. I wouldn’t.

Nominative · 15/05/2025 08:34

CinnamonJellyBeans · 15/05/2025 07:45

Husband divorces wife.

Husband stops paying enough money for his offspring to continue life as normal.

Wife complains in undignified fashion. Man gets Turkey teeth, a younger model and (doubtless) replacement kids.

Women of mumsnet vilify the ex-wife.

You left out "Wife doesn't make any effort to support herself and children, spends money drink, drugs and hopeless legal cases, wife is violent towards man and new girlfriend and has to have repeated restraining orders which she keeps breaking." And there are no replacement kids. If it were the other way round, women of MN would have no hesitation in vilifying the husband.

ResidentPorker · 15/05/2025 08:34

If a man acted like her people would be a LOT less sympathetic. There would be no "oh, he's clearly devastated, he needs therapy" - it would be "he's very obviously abusive and dangerous and his behaviour is terrible".

DelboytrottersDnecklace · 15/05/2025 08:36

BoldBlueZebra · 15/05/2025 08:19

Hmmmmm not sure I get all the interest in them. They’re a bit obscure. Thanks for the info though.

I was wrong on some points,which I fully accept and hold my hands up to

She's made the break up her whole personality by all amounts

She would have been better off acting with dignity,getting a job and non of this drama but her type don't do that

Dps ex wife is exactly the same (but without the platform thankfully)

Keeps her in the papers though,sod the damage she's done to her children

It's a long car crash

IveGotAnUnusuallyLargePelvisISwear · 15/05/2025 08:36

CinnamonJellyBeans · 15/05/2025 07:45

Husband divorces wife.

Husband stops paying enough money for his offspring to continue life as normal.

Wife complains in undignified fashion. Man gets Turkey teeth, a younger model and (doubtless) replacement kids.

Women of mumsnet vilify the ex-wife.

Are you joking? AE was and is an abuser. Her ex husband has a restraining order against her because she has been abusive.

I don’t doubt he left her for someone else but that is never, ever an excuse to abuse and terrorise your ex.

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