Ioan Gruffudd separated from Alice Evans in January 2021. We know because Alice’s descent into madness began at that moment. She spent two and a half years ranting and raving about Ioan online, on social media and in interviews. While Ioan is far from perfect, it became clear that his biggest crime was simply leaving his wife. That’s it – he wasn’t happy, and Alice showed us why he was so unhappy with her. Ioan quickly moved on with Bianca Wallace, and Alice began targeting Bianca in her hate campaign as well. The divorce finally came through last summer, but not before a series of last-ditch dramatics from Alice.
Well, at least Ioan and Bianca are getting their happy ending – Ioan proposed and Bianca is thrilled. She posted the engagement photo with the ring – an emerald center stone with two diamonds on either side. It’s a pretty ring, although I’m not a huge fan of emeralds as engagement rings. I’m sure she loved it and they’ve been through a lot. It would not surprise me if they were somewhat trauma-bonded from everything they’ve dealt with over the course of their relationship. Incidentally, Ioan timed the proposal so it was almost three years to the DAY when he told Alice he was leaving (and she freaked out and began live-tweeting through it).
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Instagram.
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- 61st Television Festival of Monte-Carlo Closing ceremony red carpet. Ioan Gruffudd and Bianca Wallace.,Image: 701788706, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Olivier Huitel / Avalon
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- 61st Television Festival of Monte-Carlo Closing ceremony red carpet. Ioan Gruffudd and Bianca Wallace.,Image: 701788739, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Olivier Huitel / Avalon
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- 61st Television Festival of Monte-Carlo Closing ceremony red carpet. Ioan Gruffudd and Bianca Wallace.,Image: 701788757, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Olivier Huitel / Avalon
I’d kind of forgotten about this situation! I wish them well and hope the children are adjusting too.
Yeah same here, although I am sort of frightened his ex wife will go overboard with her insanity again.
Wishing them well!
Wishing both them and the children well, hopefully they are able to have a positive relationship with the kids but am not holding my breath considering how insane Alice is.
I hope the kids are doing better now. I remember reading about Alice’s attempts to harass Ioan and weaponize their oldest daughter against him. Alice came across as mentally unstable with a drinking problem, so hopefully that situation has also improved somewhat.
I just feel for those girls. So much damage has already been done and that woman will not relent. Alice is hateful and psychotic and Ioan seem to be coping with her abuse by being removed from it all.
I really hope Ioan is able to be a parent to his kids. That part of this story is tragic.
I like Bianca and Ioan together. She has Multiple Sclerosis and talks about it a lot and when she is struggling with current medication etc., my late mother had MS and it’s a disease that really takes a toll on whole families and relationships.
Being attacked relentlessly by a person can cause exacerbations from the stress which is what I think Alice was trying to accomplish with her whole social media thuggery.
It is refreshing to see how Bianca handles the disease and as a result I am a fan of her.
Wow! I didn’t know she was also struggling with MS. My FIL passed due to complications from MS. It is a terrible and relentless disease. I’m glad she now has an additional support system and I hope the ex lets them have peace!
From what I remember, I think Alice outed Bianca having MS when she was on one of her revenge tirades on Twitter which makes Alice even less sympathetic. I can’t find any reference to it but I have a vague memory of Alice mentioning Bianca having health issues but maybe not stating outright she had MS. I could be wrong about this though…
Gorgeous ring! Could it be a peridot? I know a couple of Leos who adore their birthstone, and a quick Google says she’s born in August.
Count me as another fan of hers, as someone with a chronic illness, I admire her outlook and sense of humour about things. Hope she’s doing okay with her MS.
It is indeed a peridot. She confirmed this.
Congratulations to them. I guess we can all just wait for the next meltdown from Alice.
I am not saying that Alice’s was or is not toxic or that below is their story, but in a general sense –
I have always resented how men leave their women After they have children and the women are older (the women were not thinking about starting a new life, and in some cases, they were the caregiver to the children and did not keep up with themselves); the men then move on with younger women and start a brand new life. I also hate how the ‘left women’ are supposed to be quiet and gracious and wish the men well. In many cases, the stories are the same, the women suspect something and asked and are repeated assured they are wrong; then boom, out of left field…the men are out.
100%.
Until Alice went completely over the edge and involved the children, I had a lot of sympathy for her. She had a career which she put on hold to raise their girls while Ioan had a steady job to support them. That said, I don’t think her issues came from out of the blue. I hope all parties involved find peace and happiness. It’s been rough for all of them.
She was abusive even before… if the genders were reversed we would support the woman who left the abusive husband, no matter what…
True, in a general sense, but why post that on this story? This is a story of a man who was married to an abusive, lazy, alcoholic wife, who laid around addicted to social media, often posting negative stories about her own private husband under the guise of joking, or getting into fights with Black political commentators on Twitter back during the 2020 election year telling them to read the room and telling them how they should feel.
Looking at transcripts, she from the beginning began parental alienation in respect to their children. How about discussing the times men have stayed with an abusive wife for the sake of the children until they couldn’t take it anymore? The guy has gone through a fortune fighting just to see his children. It’s terribly sad.
But discussing on this particular thread women who have been left later in life falls flat. Alice is trash. I don’t say that lightly. It’s why her own father cut off all contact decades ago, because she was abusive to her stepmother.
Reading that in memory of tweet she put out years ago using a stepsister she barely knew, before her father became estranged from Alice, as a dig against her father and stepmother tells me the type of vile person Alice is. The teen committed suicide years before. Alice did a post going into graphic detail regarding how she committed suicide, insinuating dark things about her stepmother and father, and then puffing herself up, all just to cause pain publically to her stepmother, a woman who lost her young daughter in a horrific way.
@Jayna – it is rather ironic that you are reprimanding me about my post, please look at yours.
This is a story about a man that got engaged and not what you said it is about.
He couldn’t even have a conversation with his parents without her listening in. He says she was abusive and controlling throughout their entire relationship and from her behavior after he left, I believe him. No one has to stay with their abuser and yes women can be abusers.
I am not saying that Alice’s was or is not toxic OR that below is their story, but in a general sense –
The above was the first line of my post…people have gone off into “if men were abusive etc”…where is all that coming from…?
I am not supporting her…the only thing I know about her is that she spoke crap about Meghan M…and I was out… no sympathy for her…
But I remember when Denise R was called crazy.
Hey, while you may have a point here when it comes to other men, I think AE very visibly suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder and this is something the family lived with for many years before we heard about their break-up. While I am tired of midlife crisis middle aged men doing a „reset/restart“ with a new younger wife, I feel this is a whole different scenario. Life with BPD is hard. I hope he and his kids finds happiness and Alice finds healing.
@Caribbean
Jayne is stating facts from court documents about the situation that led to Ioan divorce based on your comment. While you went off on a tangent on a situation that doesn’t even apply to Ioan .
The problem is you keep saying but which negates everything you say before it. Like Kanye weve seen pruff of Alice behavior on social media.
@theotherviv-
You just hit a bullseye. It screams BPD, for which she could get a specific type of therapy. 🤷🏼♀️ It is truly a shame that she has no insight.
Alice has a history of lashing out at anyone who disagrees with her. Ioan didn’t leave her because she gained a little weight. He left her because she was abusive towards him.
@Raven…
If I am supposed to stay on topic…which I did not see where I was thread hijacking (I believer that is what it is called 🙂 ?) ..So should Jayne…
She is talking about another woman and all the things she did (her words are true and so are mine), but that was not what the topic was about. So, if I am ‘wrong’ so is Jayne.
@CARIBBEAN
Again, Jayne is taking about Alice and Ioan situation in response to your comment about a situation that doesn’t apply to them.
Your words aren’t true because it has nothing to do with this specific situation and couple.
@Raven
I did say in my writing that it may not apply to them…But I am glad you know them so well.
I am open enough to know that the no one is All good. I am open enough to know that sometimes a man’s behavior can make a toxic woman go even more toxic and even insane and the man comes out smelling like roses. Maybe it seems like I am supporting the ex, I AM NOT…
I am saying (again) that this is a pattern that I have noticed in men and then the women are supposed to stay quiet, or they are labeled as being (fill in the rest).
But it has been confirmed that she was abusive to him long before he finally left. He stayed because he was worried about his children. If he was a woman would you still blame him for leaving? This isn’t a “she got old I’m out” situation. This was a toxic marriage and she is a very destructive person who has apparently also a substance abuse issue. He was right to leave.
Counterpoint:
Alice is an abuser.
She was abusive before (see engagement story) and during their marriage. She cheated on her then fiancé/partner with Ioan, and she cheated on Ioan on the set of TVD (and probably other occasions).
She hit him with a golf club – an accident, they claim.
Ioan should be applauded for leaving an abusive relationship.
And she did f*ck all childcare – at one stage they had a nanny AND a housekeeper.
She committed legal and financial abuse towards him too.
Yes there are millions of middle-aged women who get a raw deal.
Alice isn’t one of them.
I’d usually agree with you but Ioan had actually talked to Alice for months about getting divorced and she refused to hear him. He finally moved out and then she flipped out, bad mouthed him, poisoned the kids, etc.
And he was single for a year after leaving her. and he did not leave her for a younger woman who during Alices claim of a 3 year affair was bedbound for whole of year 1 and locked up 15000 miles away from him in Oz due to their Covid travel bans for year 3
Bianca confirmed that it’s her birthstone, a peridot.
Alice has been extremely quiet about it, surprisingly!
Very wise to have a birthstone ring. When he tires of her she can switch it to her right hand and make it do double duty. In this economy, looking ahead and planning for the unexpected is mandatory.
Why are you being so bitter about this? You don’t know either of them. Ioan left a highly abusive marriage to a woman who was clearly suffering some sort of personality disorder, who weaponized their children against him, threatened suicide, and painted him wrongly as some sort of manipulative monster. He appears to have found love again and their relationship is stable and happy. That he is marrying a woman with a life-altering disease says even more about him as a great partner.
Libra – I understand the impulse to be dismissive. My uncle was married 4x, by the 4th wife we were all rolling our eyes. Well, theyve been married for 20 years now. Im sorry if this divorce/engagement hits a nerve for you, but it seems like there were other issues a play here in his divorce from Alice.
I saw in some digital tab somewhere that she started bitching about it right away. She also successfully pushed the older daughter to lodge a complaint of abuse against her father at some point. Commenters were in support of her. Almost certainly was a British tab.
@jaded’; I was being sarcastic. It appears to have landed wrong.
@Libra — it wasn’t sarcasm and it didn’t “land wrong”. It was a really nasty jab at someone who doesn’t deserve it.
I wonder if Alice has been given some legal boundaries to what she can and cant say about them. My hope is that she has gone to therapy and moved on as well.
Knowing Alice’s track record with sock accounts, she’ll be manically tweeting about this or posting in the daily mail comments under fake names lol 😂
Congrats to Ioan and Bianca. I hope Ioan gets some custody of his kids so he can repair the alienation Alice caused.
Congratulations to them! It’s a beautiful ring and they look happy!
Congratulations to both of them and I wish them every happiness together.
Looking back at the timeline of these stories, it seems like Ella is the one who is the one who acts out more in regards to her father. Is that true? Is it just that the younger one is too young?
I am happy for them and wish them well as well as the children. We don’t talk enough about abused men who exist out there in unhappy marriages. My father has been screamed at and berated by my mother for decades and she also listens in on a lot of his phone conversations. My father will sadly never leave my mother because there is an element of codependency there as well coupled with the fact that I think he is being treated similarly to how his father mistreated him as a child. It took strength for Ioan to get out because these types of scenarios, all kinds of threats can occur and the men in these scenarios can be just as afraid as the women in male abusive relationships. Ioan honestly had a nightmarish divorce and custody battle compared to most. I would bet money he wanted to leave her for years, but was afraid to.
The “daily fail” has reported that a judge has ordered the kids to attend something like reunification (?) therapy together with their dad, and on their own, and therapy sessions for Alice, as well, I think. Really hope that helps all of them.
Incorrect use of the phrase “trauma bonded”. Trauma bonding occurs between perpetrator and victim, not two victims.
I wish them all the happiness in the world. I also hope for the kids to heal as well. I cringed a little when I saw the announcement on social TBH. Because like a few people here are saying, how will this set off Alice? I know Alice is not a part of this, but her past behavior on social makes me apprehensive that their engagement news will set off another tirade of publicly abusive posts. All in all, I hope she gets help too.
I have no doubt Alice is a garbage human being, but I am not cheering for the guy who goes off with a woman two decades his junior, especially with kids involved.
Biology and aging are not fair to women. Of course an older guy is going to be more interested in the significantly younger, more attractive woman. Shocker. That’s not some noble act that warrants praise.
This case is a bad example and I’m not saying he should have stayed, but I am always going to judge the men who leave the older wives – especially wives who had their kids – for something newer and shinier.
I don’t understand the need to bring this up at all regarding him when you KNOW his situation isn’t like that.
Good on him for finding ‘something newer and shinier’ – great depersonalisation of his partner btw – when he escaped an horrific marriage. Better for the kids that they spend some time away from their mother in a normal environment where they have a chance of growing up emotionally healthy.
Please; his focus is not on his children. That’s abundantly clear from the fact that he had no problem leaving them primarily with Alice for years to accommodate his work schedule and leaving them primarily with her now while he pursues his current relationship. His decision to leave was for himself, not his kids. But nice try!!
I really like the depersonalization part too! I’m sure that if you are married to a man and have kids, you wouldn’t find anything remotely unfair about him leaving you because he wants to sleep with someone younger and hotter. Good luck!
@SandyK
Wait, so men can’t can’t go off and work full time now? They can’t have a job that involves business travel? That’s insane. It’s not like Alice was a good actress, she had barely any roles. And she refuses to get a job even now!
“Leaving his kids primarily with Alice while he pursues his new relationship” – uh no, he’s been in an expensive custody battle for years because she’s hoarding the kids. Read the court documents, she’s a next level abuser. He’s TRYING to see his kids and he’s been asking for shared custody from the start. It’s horribly sad to see what has happened.
I’m married to a man and I have kids and if he left me for someone younger, then good riddance. I would never use my kids as a weapon as Alice has. It’s disgusting.
@SandyK — he didn’t just leave his kids with Alice, he had work commitments that he couldn’t get out of. Alice knew that being with an actor would require him to work in other countries. I’m sure he missed his kids terribly but are you suggesting he tank his career in favour of staying with a woman who has shown again and again that she’s mentally unstable to the point of making his life miserable? He didn’t leave Alice because he found someone younger and hotter, he left because his marriage was irrevocably ruined. We’ve all seen how she weaponized her kids, we all know she’s an alcoholic, we all know she vilified him and lied about him publicly endlessly. I wouldn’t want to be married to someone like that. Oh, and by the way, there’s no reason to take a swing at their age difference, 19 years is no biggie and they appear to be deeply in love. The fact that he’s happy marrying a woman who is battling MS shows how devoted he is to her.
I think we need to not paint everyone with a broad stroke. I am someone who typically dates older men. I dated a man 13 years older when I was 25. Now, at 42, I wouldn’t be opposed to dating someone as old as 60. Does that mean I am newer and shinier? To be honest, men my age seem SO immature, that men older are up to my maturity level. I think this man may have simply been relieved to have a more emotionally stable partner. I think sometimes we can project how we would react or feel onto these stories. His former wife was terrifying to me and very reminiscent of my current narcissistic mother. I am not sure we can pull the Dane Cook card on this story.
Anyone else think Alice is on here posting under a bunch of different names????
Apparently in the DM comments under the engagement article Alice has been feverishly posting her standard narrative under alt names because whilst reunification therapy has started due to her hardcore PA of daughters, pending custody decision, court orders prevent her from continuing to still trash IG and BW openly on SM.
Ah yes, she’s taking a page from the Samantha Markle book of “How To Post Sh*t About People Under Multiple Pseudonyms”
Congratulations to them! Wishing them every happiness; they’ve been through a lot.