Actress Alice Evans’ messy split from her actor ex Ioan Gruffudd has taken another shock twist today as she accused her former spouse of not paying any child support
since May – claiming that she has been left in such dire financial straits that she can’t afford to ‘put food on the table’ and will be forced to go on food stamps.
In legal documents filed by 55-year-old Evans’ lawyers on July 1 – which have been obtained by DailyMail.com –
the mother-of-two states that she has ‘100 per cent’ custody of her and Gruffudd’s two daughters, Ella, 14, and Elsie, 10,
but that she has received no financial support from him since their custody agreement was settled two months ago.
Just weeks after the couple finally reached an agreement in their divorce, Evans says she is ‘struggling to put food on the table’,
while she insists her former husband, 50 – who is currently engaged to partner Bianca Wallace – is ‘jetting around the world’ and living a ‘lavish lifestyle’.
While I am struggling to put food on the table for the children, Ioan is jet setting around the world,’ she states in the documents.
She claims that he has bought new Rolex watches for himself and his fiancé Bianca and has been on a global press tour for the latest Bad Boys film, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, while she is about to go on food stamps.
Evans references ‘stories in the media’ that indicate her former spouse ‘purchased an expensive engagement ring for his fiancée’, alleging that he and Wallace also ‘recently purchased new Rolex watches’.
At the time of publication of this story, both Gruffudd and Wallace’s Instagram accounts had been removed from public view – however a May 2024 post shared by Wallace showed her sporting what appears to be a green Rolex watch.
It is unclear if this is the watch Evans is referring to in court documents.
However, as a result of her ex’s so-called ‘lavish lifestyle’, she is asking the court to require Gruffudd to pay spousal and child support to her, until their financial trial.
Evans adds that the only payments agreed so far are $3,000 a month in interim child support. However she says that these were not paid in May or June.
Gruffudd also paid $7,000 a month as an advance of spousal support from December 2023 to April 2024. It was initially understood that the financial issues would go to trial by April 2024 but that has now been put off to August.
‘Alice is applying for public assistance because she is unable to support herself and the children,’ her lawyer states in the latest legal filing.
‘It appears that the financial trial will be several months away and Alice will not be able to survive without the receipt of guideline spousal support.
‘Ioan has the ability to pay spousal support based upon his greater ability to earn income and his ongoing lavish lifestyle. For these reasons, Alice requests guideline child and spousal support.’
Her lawyer Janina Verano also says that since May 2023 Gruffudd has not seen the children outside of reunification therapy nor has he ‘exercised his court ordered right’ to have a telephone call with them three times a week. Reunification therapy ended in February this year.
‘Ioan has not telephoned the children or returned their text messages since May of 2023,’ Evans says. She adds: ‘The children have been left in limbo and are completely confused about when or if they will see Ioan.’
Through an order filed by her lawyer, Evans says that she does not agree to the sealing or keeping private of their stipulation, or custody agreement in its entirety, which is what Gruffudd has requested – accusing him of being ‘disingenuous’ in his request to seal the legal proceedings in order to ‘protect the children’.
Evans’ attorney notes that Gruffudd ‘did not seek to seal any of DVRO [domestic violence] pleadings nor any of the custody pleadings wherein he falsely accuses Alice of abusing the children’ – calling out the fact that he only wishes to seal those proceedings in which the allegations were resolved.
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Source: Los Angeles Times
