Fantastic Four actor Ioan Gruffudd has made explosive claims against his ex-wife while his nasty divorce remains public.
Ioan Gruffudd accused his estranged wife, Alice Evans, of verbally abusing him during his 14 years of marriage, claiming in new court documents that he mocked his hair loss and told him he had ” fallen vagina eyes “.
He Titanic plaintiff also claimed in custody documents, obtained by the Daily mailthat Evans “ate” him and “reprimanded” him in front of his daughters, Ella, 12, and Elsie, 8.
“Alice told me regularly, and in front of the children, that she wanted a divorce, that I was stupid and a failure, and that she would call the police if she didn’t do what she asked,” Gruffudd, 48, said. . the documents.
He The fantastic four The plaintiff filed a petition in Los Angeles High Court this week for joint custody of his daughters, arguing that the Vampire diaries The actress had “verbally abused and undermined me in front of the girls throughout her life” and that she wanted some sort of “stipulation for custody and therapy orders.”
Gruffudd, who filed for divorce in March 2021, stated that since he moved out in January 2021, Evans, 53, “has inflicted serious emotional damage on Ella and Elsie for their statements. and to interfere in my relationship with them. “
He also alleged that since he moved, Evans “encouraged them and told them not to see me or communicate with me,” and therefore, he has not spent quality time in person with his daughters, all and that he claimed to be the principal. caregiver during their marriage, since July 2021.
The actor accused the Originals actress to tell her daughter that she told Evans to “commit suicide” and that “she would no longer have a mummy.”
The former couple’s last court battle comes five months after Gruffudd asked for a restraining order against his separated wife.
“Alice threatened to tell people that she had abused her and our daughters,” her petition said. “He threatened to call the police if I didn’t comply with his demands … he threatened to tell people that I was a drug addict and put me in jail … he threatened to write a fake newspaper that reflect a victim of abuse and to publish it.; and … I threatened to destroy my mother “.
The ex-partner, who married in 2007, has had a rather tumultuous and bitter divorce battle.
Evans first announced his separation by tweeting that Gruffudd was going to “leave his family” and claimed he said he was doing it because “he no longer loves me.”
A week later, she went to Instagram to share how “disturbing” the breakup had been for her.
“I never thought this would happen to us,” Evans wrote in an Instagram post deleted since February 2021. “I’m still struggling with this, because I love our kids and I still love them, but something has happened inside. whatever it is, I don’t see it coming back to us.
Evans also claimed in March 2021 that he learned that Gruffudd filed for divorce on the Internet.
Meanwhile, Gruffudd began dating his girlfriend Bianca Wallace, whom Evans claimed to be his friend, shortly after the separation. In October 2021, Evans accused the two of a three-year affair behind them.
“So it turns out that my husband, after two years of telling me that I’m a bad person and that I’m not exciting and that he no longer wants to have sex with me and just wants to be on set abroad … in a relationship for THREE years on our backs, ”Evans wrote in a tweet deleted since then.
In February 2022, Evans requested physical and legal custody of the girls, as well as spousal support.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.