Ioan Gruffudd accused his estranged wife, Alice Evans, of verbally abusing him during their 14-year marriage, alleging in new court documents that she mocked his hair loss and told him he had “droopy vagina eyes”.
The “Titanic” actor also claimed in custody documents obtained by the Daily Mail that Evans “belittled” and “sweared” him in front of their daughters Ella, 12, and Elsie, 8.
“Alice told me regularly, in front of the kids, that she wanted a divorce, that I was stupid and a failure, and that if I didn’t do what she demanded, she would call the police,” Gruffudd, 48, said in a statement. documents.
The “Fantastic Four” actor filed this week with the Los Angeles Superior Court for joint custody of his daughters, arguing that the “Vampire Diaries” actress has “verbally abused and undermined me all their lives in the with the girls”, he wants some sort of “provision for guardianship and therapy assignments”.
Gruffudd, who filed for divorce in March 2021, claimed that Evans, 53, since they left their home in January 2021, “has caused serious emotional harm to Ella and Elsie by her statements and by disrupting my relationship with them.”
He also claimed that since his move, Evans has “encouraged and instructed them not to see or interact with me”, which is why he has not spent any personal time with his daughters — despite claiming to be the primary caregiver during their marriage. – since July 2021.
The actor accused the “Originals” actress of telling their daughter that he told Evans to “commit suicide” and that she “wouldn’t have a mummy again.”
“Ella said to me, ‘Daddy, this makes me very sad,’ and ‘If I don’t agree with her, I’m apparently a bad daughter,'” Gruffudd claimed in the documents.
Evans responded to the papers via her Instagram, calling her ex “disgusting.”
“Witch Hunt,” she began in her Instagram caption on Wednesday. “He has been refusing to see them for over a year. I’m so nauseous I’m about to give up… You’re disgusting.’
The former couple’s latest lawsuit comes five months after Gruffudd filed a restraining order against his estranged wife.
“Alice threatened to tell people that I abused her and our daughters,” his petition read. “Threatened to call the police if I didn’t comply with their demands…threatened to tell people I’m a drug addict and put me in jail…threaten to write a fake diary that reflected an abused victim, and have the diary published; and…threatened to destroy my mother.”
The ex-couple, who married in 2007, have been through quite a tumultuous and bitter divorce battle.
Evans first announced their separation by tweeting that Gruffudd would “leave his family” and claimed he said he was doing this because he “no longer loves me”.
A week later, she took to Instagram to share how “excruciating” the breakup had been for her.
“I never thought this would happen to us,” Evans wrote in a since-deleted February 2021 Instagram post. “I’m still fighting it because I love our kids, and I still love him, but there something happened in his head and whatever it is, I don’t see him coming back to us.”
Evans also claimed in March 2021 that she learned that Gruffudd filed for divorce over the internet.
Meanwhile, Gruffudd began dating girlfriend Bianca Wallace — who Evans says was her boyfriend — shortly after the split. In October 2021, Evans accused the two of a three-year affair behind her back.
“So it turns out that after two years my husband told me I’m a bad person and I’m not aroused and he doesn’t want to have sex with me like that anymore and he just wants to be on set abroad. … in a relationship for THREE years behind our backs,” Evans wrote in a since-deleted tweet.
In February 2022, Evans filed for both physical and legal custody of the girls, as well as spousal support.