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Ioan Gruffudd and Alice Evans are legally divorced — however their drama is much from over.
In keeping with paperwork obtained by Us Weekly, a Los Angeles court docket granted a “dissolution of marriage” in “standing solely” efficient as of Monday, July 3, after discovering that “irreconcilable variations have arisen within the marriage.”
The ruling comes practically two months after Gruffudd, 49, requested to be made legally single as he and Evans labored out a settlement — which has not been reached but. Per Monday’s submitting, Evans, 54, agreed to the request so long as “sure circumstances” had been included. Her circumstances weren’t specified within the docs.
Us confirmed in March 2021 that Gruffudd filed for divorce from Evans after 13 years of marriage. Two months prior, the actress claimed by way of Twitter that her then-husband wanted to call it quits. (The duo share daughters Ella, 13, and Elsie, 9.)
“Unhappy information. My beloved husband/soulmate of 20 years, Ioan Gruffudd, has introduced he’s to depart his household, beginning subsequent week,” Evans wrote in January 2021. “Me and our younger daughters women [sic] are very confused and unhappy. We haven’t been given a motive besides that he ‘now not loves me’. I’m so sorry.”
Gruffudd went public together with his romance with Bianca Wallace in October 2021. Evans, for her half, accused him of getting an affair.
“So it seems that my husband, after two years of telling me I’m a nasty particular person and I’m not thrilling and he now not need so to have intercourse with me and he simply desires to be on set overseas … Has been in a relationship for THREE years behind all our backs. Good luck, Bianca,” she wrote in a since-deleted tweet. (Gruffudd, for his half, didn’t tackle the claims on the time.)
After Evans’ Twitter allegations made headlines, Gruffudd obtained a three-year restraining order which banned her from mentioning him on social media and sharing private correspondence from their kids.
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The drama continued, nevertheless, earlier this 12 months when Us confirmed that the previous couple’s eldest daughter filed her own restraining order in opposition to Gruffudd and his girlfriend for “home violence prevention.” In keeping with docs obtained by the Daily Mail in Could, the order was filed as a result of Wallace, 30, allegedly “slammed a door on” Ella’s head after a heated argument throughout their preliminary assembly.
“I used to be in a position to stroll midway out the door, however whereas I used to be nonetheless within the door body, [she] slammed the door on me, inflicting the door to hit me on the top in addition to my arm. My arm acquired bruised, and I had small bump on my head,” Ella claimed.
A choose denied Ella’s request in opposition to Wallace in June, stating that the teenager “didn’t maintain the relevant burden of proof.” Nonetheless, the momentary restraining order in opposition to her father was prolonged till their July 13 listening to.
