January 2021: The start of the tip
Gruffudd filed for divorce in March 2021, shortly after Evans claimed on social media that her husband of 14 years was strolling out on her and their two daughters.
October 2021: Ioan goes public along with his new love
After Evans’ explosive announcement about her break up all appeared to quieten down till October 2021 when she took to Twitter to assert to her 29,000 followers that her estranged husband had been dishonest on her for 3 years with a a lot youthful girl.
Evans implied that her ex had gaslighted her for years, betraying her and their two daughters (however didn’t provide any proof to assist her accusation).
February 2022: Ioan information for a restraining order in opposition to Alice
After months of pointed tweets and social media posts made by Evans, Gruffudd responded by submitting for a restraining order, submitting 113 pages of unhinged texts and emails that had not beforehand been made public.
In his courtroom submitting, Gruffudd claimed he instructed Evans that he wished out of the wedding in August 2020 and that since then, she had harassed him with lots of of unanswered textual content messages, abusive emails and social media posts – a lot of which he included within the submitting.
He claimed she verbally threatened to inform the media he had abused her ‘do what Amber Heard did to Johnny Depp’.
Inside essentially the most bitter divorce in Hollywood: A glance again at Alice Evans and Ioan Gruffudd’s shock slanging match (pictured in 2004)
June 2022: Alice begs followers for cash to pay for a divorce lawyer
As their divorce proceedings entered its fifteenth month, Evans claimed to be ‘utterly out of cash for meals and payments.’
She claimed she would obtain no monetary assist from Gruffudd and that she was struggling to pay her authorized charges and could be unable to ‘feed or dress’ their daughters together with her dwindling funds.
July 2022: Ioan asks for joint custody of daughters
After Evans filed for sole custody of their daughters, Gruffudd filed for custody and visitation rights to see his youngsters, claiming within the submitting that Evans had been purposely making an attempt to chop communication between himself and the youngsters.
He additionally petitioned that the women attend in-person remedy and reunification remedy by way of zoom with him pending court-ordered mediation about custody.
Within the submitting, Gruffudd reiterated allegations that Evans had been verbally abusing throughout their 14-year marriage, and ‘undermin[ing him] in entrance of the women all through their lives.’
August 2022: Ioan will get a three-year restraining order in opposition to Alice
Having beforehand been awarded a brief restraining order in opposition to his estranged spouse, Gruffudd efficiently obtained a three-year restraining order in opposition to Evans in August 2022.
Harsher restrictions had been put in place by a US decide, together with a ruling stopping Alice from leaking personal textual content messages from their youngsters.
Within the courtroom paperwork, Gruffudd claimed Evans continued to trigger him points and wished extra provisions added to the present restraining order.
He additionally requested Evans not submit his textual content messages or another communications to the events’ youngsters, or the youngsters’s textual content messages or another communications to Ioan, on any social media account.
Gruffudd additionally requested for the decide to order Evans to not contact his employer or make disparaging statements about him to his employers.
October 2021: Ioan went public along with his new love Bianca Wallace, posting an image with the Australian actress who’s 21 years youthful than Alice
September 2022: Ioan and Alice’s baby custody battle hits a wall
Two months after Gruffudd filed for joint custody of his two daughters and requested for custody and visitation rights, the exes didn’t settle their variations in household courtroom, regardless of the assistance of a mediator.
Court docket paperwork confirmed the exes assembly was set for 31 August and that mediation had taken place however that ‘no settlement’ had been reached.
The doc went on to substantiate that that each Gruffudd and Evans had accomplished the necessary Our Youngsters First program.
The Superior Court docket of Los Angeles states of this system that: ‘Mother and father are required by regulation to attend a mediation orientation/dad or mum training program and a mediation session previous to showing at an Order to Present Trigger or Trial concerning the custody and/or visitation of their youngsters.’
November 2022: Alice is reported to police over claims of ‘baby abuse’ and drug use
Amid her ongoing custody battle, Evans claimed that somebody known as social providers and the police on her with considerations over baby abuse and drug and drink use.
The actress took to Twitter to allege that somebody had despatched authorities to her property who then discovered ‘completely no indicators of abuse’ and ‘no medication or drink’.
July 2022: Ioan requested for joint custody of their daughters Ella, 13 and Elsie, 9, claiming Alice had been making an attempt to chop communication between himself and the youngsters (pictured in 2018
February 2023: Youngster custody settlement is stalled once more after Alice is charged with ‘violating restraining order’
Evans appeared in courtroom in February 2023 to reply two prices of violating a restraining order that was put in place by her estranged husband.
The warring former couple had been scheduled to look later that month at a custody listening to however Evans requested for a postponement.
Her lawyer, Marie LaMolinara, argued that testimony Alice provides on the custody listening to could possibly be used in opposition to her in her later prison trial, which might violate her proper, below the fifth Modification, to not incriminate herself.
March 2023: Fees in opposition to Alice are dropped
Prosecutors in Los Angeles dropped prices in opposition to Evans who had been accused of defying a restraining order the Welsh actor has in opposition to her.
Evans had pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of violating the order and at a listening to at LA’s Airport Courthouse, Commissioner James Cooper dismissed the costs after prosecutors instructed the courtroom they had been ‘unable to proceed.’
At a follow-up listening to, Evans’ lawyer, public defender, Daniel Stefanic, filed a movement asking for a ruling that may declare her ‘factually harmless’ of the costs.
August 2022: Ioan efficiently obtained a three-year restraining order in opposition to Alice that banned her from mentioning him or his girlfriend on social media (Ioan and Bianca pictured Might 2022)
Might 2023: Alice strikes out of $2million household residence as ex Ioan is ‘too poor’ to pay for it
Evans and her youngsters moved out of her household residence and right into a rented abode with their two daughters after Gruffudd pleaded with a courtroom to permit the house to be offered, saying he did not have the cash to maintain up with mortgage funds for his household following their break up in 2021.
The Improbable 4 star instructed a courtroom in a doc filed final 12 months that neither he nor Evans might afford the $6,750 a month in mortgage funds, insurance coverage and property tax.
He stated he’d had only one paid job previously 12 months and was so poor he was counting on handouts from his younger girlfriend.
Might 2023: Ella, 13, applies for a restraining order in opposition to dad Ioan and his girlfriend Bianca
The teenage daughter of Evans and Gruffudd requested for a restraining order in opposition to her well-known father and his girlfriend in paperwork filed on Might 31 on the Los Angeles Superior Court docket.
Within the paperwork, Ella acknowledged that she is ‘afraid’ of her father and accuses him of ‘threatening to name the police on her anytime she misbehaves’ throughout their visitations.
Ella filed for a home violence restraining order in opposition to her father following what she stated was an unsightly incident at their residence, throughout which she claims Bianca ‘slammed a door on her head’.
In her submitting in opposition to her father, Ella requested that he be made to maintain at the very least 100 yards away from her and never contact her for 5 years and asks that Gruffudd be ordered to bear a ’52-week batterer intervention program’.
This system, which entails weekly courses, is meant – the doc states – to ‘cease abuse, educate accountability, abuse results, and gender roles’.
Ella requested that the restraining order additionally cowl her nine-year-old sister Elsie, noting that she ‘lives together with her sister and is afraid that [Ioan] will abuse and/or proceed to permit abuse to occur to my sister too’.
She additionally requested that her father be made to pay ‘for some or all of her lawyer’s charges and prices’ and requests that her cellphone account and that of her sister Elsie’s be transferred to their mom, alleging that Gruffudd has ‘threatened to cancel my sister’s cellphone account and my cellphone account’.
Alongside together with her home restraining order submitting, Ella included a declaration as proof to assist her case, during which she shared her recollection of a bitter spat that she claims passed off whereas she and her nine-year-old sister Elsie had been visiting their father’s residence on Might 26.
Ella admitted that she was ‘so mad’ at her father to search out that Wallace was at his condo when she arrived that she started throwing meals on his mattress, on the ground, and on him, earlier than she tried to flee the condo – which, she says, is when the actress ‘slammed a door on her head’, leaving her with ‘a small bump’ and a ‘bruise on her arm’.
Might 2023: The teenage daughter of Alice and Ioan requested for a restraining order in opposition to her well-known father and his girlfriend in paperwork filed on Might 31 (Alice and Ella pictured)
June 2023: Ioan accuses Alice of abusing him by way of faux Twitter accounts
In courtroom paperwork seen by MailOnline, Gruffudd claimed his estranged spouse screamed at him exterior his Los Angeles residence and known as him a ‘f***ing abuser’ and ‘abusive c***’ in entrance of their 13-year-old daughter.
Gruffudd additionally claimed Evans repeatedly damaged a three-year restraining order he took out in opposition to her which has resulted in prison prices – and flashed him whereas sporting no underwear when their youngsters had been being dropped off.
The bombshell papers additionally contained claims from Gruffudd that: Evans has made ‘hundreds of false, threatening and harassing posts’ about him; Evans claims to be home-schooling Ella, however has ‘offered no info’; Evans has interfered with the women’ remedy and they’re lacking appointments; and Ella poured rolled oats from a bag over his head, which left him ‘in shock’.
July 2023: Ioan and Alice are declared legally divorced
In a courtroom order handed down in LA Superior Court docket, Choose Josh Freeman Stinn lastly granted Gruffudd’s request for divorce amid the couple’s ongoing custody battle.
The Welsh actor had filed for bifurcation and termination of marital standing in Might which might permit him and Evans to be declared legally divorced whilst they proceed settlement negotiations of their break up.
A minute order obtained by DailyMail.com present the decide accepted the request on July 3, ruling: ‘The Court docket finds irreconcilable variations have arisen within the marriage and grants judgment for the dissolution of marriage as to standing solely, efficient right now.’
July 2023: Ioan’s daughter loses bid for home violence restraining order in opposition to him
Two months after Ella filed paperwork a decide on the Los Angeles Superior Court docket dismissed an utility by Ella for a home violence restraining order.
Gruffudd was current in courtroom, together with Ms Evans for the listening to, in addition to the lawyer appointed because the minor’s counsel final month.
The decide dominated: ‘The minor’s request for a home violence restraining order in opposition to the petitioner is hereby dismissed with out prejudice.’
The choice got here three weeks after {the teenager}’s bid to get a civil safety order in opposition to Gruffudd’s actress girlfriend Bianca Wallace, who suffers from a number of sclerosis, was additionally denied.
Ioan stated: Mates of the Liar star stated he was ‘very relieved’ on the consequence. Additionally they claimed that the scenario is a ‘nightmare’ however they’re ‘glad to see some progress’.
August 2023: Ioan accuses Alice of ‘baby abuse’ and maintaining their daughters from him
A Los Angeles decide tried to protect Gruffudd and Evans from the fallout of their dad and mom’ ugly battles by banning the press from a custody listening to, maintaining the proceedings secret.
However that did not cease the warring former couple – who’re each looking for custody of the women – from taking vitriolic photographs at one another in written courtroom filings which are public and never sealed.
The Welsh star known as his ex a ‘baby abuser’ – whereas Evans claimed Gruffudd hadn’t seen or known as his youngsters for nearly three months, in line with courtroom paperwork obtained by DailyMail.com.
Ioan stated: ‘Alice has continued to inflict severe emotional hurt on Ella and Elsie by her statements and by interfering in my relationship with them.
‘Alice has verbally abused and undermined me in entrance of the women all through their lives.
‘Since January 2021, Alice has additionally inspired and instructed them to not see me or talk with me and she or he has made hundreds of threatening and abusive communications to me and about me.’
Alice stated: ‘I’ve learn and disagree with the declaration of petitioner (Gruffudd) as to allegations that I’m inflicting or inflicting our youngsters ”severe emotional hurt”.
‘Nobody has ever contacted me or reported me for such conduct. No skilled, nor trainer, nor college administrator, nor counsel, nor therapist.
‘Petitioner has not seen, complied with, nor known as the youngsters for 11 weeks. I do not perceive how having no current info, “petitioner believes” there may be an urgency such {that a} baby custody analysis have to be commenced.’
June 2023: Ioan claimed in bombshell courtroom paperwork that Alice has interfered with their daughters’ remedy periods and they’re lacking appointments
