Alice Evans claimed Ioan Gruffard told him that he would leave her, if she gained weight in her latest tirade about her estranged husband.
The actress, 50, launched into a fresh Twitter attack against the Welsh actor, 48, after revealing her young daughter is ‘inconsolable’ over her father’s new romance.
Ioan shared a picture of himself with Bianca Wallace (29), and Alice launched a series of tirades against Ioan, accusing him for engaging in the relationship for three years.
It comes after Ioan filed for divorce from Alice in March, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason behind their split.
Alice claimed in a series of tweets that Ioan had repeatedly told her that he would not leave her if she gained weight.
Row continues: Alice Evans launches into an angry Twitter tirade against Ioan Grufudd (both pictured 2018), after declaring that her young daughter is unable to accept her father’s new relationship.
Her comments were in response a tweet that read: “Some words of caution for @BiancaWarren, new side chick and marriage destroyer… don’t gain an inch of weight.
@IoanGruffud loves his women to be anorexic. Time to break out the thighmasters, and light up the cigarettes.
Alice responded to the tweet with a row if crying, laughing faces before insisting that the tweeter was correct.
She said that she was not wrong. He said to me many times over the years, he couldn’t bear ‘fatties’ and would leave if I gained weight.
“I suppose he was faithful to his word this year!”
Fat shaming: In her latest tirade, the actress, 50, alleged that her estranged husband, 48, told her more than once that he would leave her if she ‘gained weight’
New love: Ioan shared a picture of his lover, Bianca Wallace, on social media. Alice launched a series of attacks against Ioan.
MailOnline reached out Ioan’s representatives to request comment.
Alice, who is known for her online candour, lamented losing her pre-pandemic thinness last month. She shared a slim throwback snap and wrote: ‘Oh, Pre-pandemic Thinness, where have you gone? (sic).
When a fan wrote “Oy, I can relate”, she replied “right!” It’s when your phone gives you a MEMORY’ that’s not what you asked for. And you think, “Wait, that was ME ???’!”
In the midst of her latest series of shocking allegations against Ioan she claimed that her young daughter is ‘inconsolable’ over her father Ioan’s new romance. This after he had promised her last week that he didn’t have a girlfriend.
Elsie’s mother said Elsie had to stay home from school because her whole world was falling apart.
Alice stated that Ioan has yet to tell their children, Elsie, 8, and Ella (12) about their divorce. They are under the impression that Ioan may return home.
She posted on Twitter: “He hasn’t even told them about divorce yet. They think he might be back. All his clothes are still in the same place he left them one year ago. Toothbrushes, creams, and everything else.
Tough times: On Wednesday, Alice was seen with supportive friends waving her wedding-ring free hand shortly before she continued her Twitter tirade
When she was asked if he maintains regular contact with his daughters, since he no longer lives in the family home, she replied: “No. Elsie calls him twice a week for 2 minutes and talks about the beauty of his hotel.
On Wednesday, Alice was seen with supportive friends waving her wedding-ring free hand shortly before she continued her Twitter tirade, which was laden with shocking claims about the couple.
After Ioan, 48 and Bianca (29), shared a love-up photo on their respective social media accounts, she launched a furious attack on the couple. She accused Bianca of engaging in the relationship for three years while also claiming that she was ‘friends with Bianca’ before the affair.
As her online pals and critics flooded social media with response to her diatribe – with both positive and negative comments – Alice spent hours responding to the messages with explosive claims and bold comments, including allegations that Ioan promised their daughters Ella he would stay single.
She continued her tangent by taking to Twitter to insist that using a public platform for venting had ‘helped’ her, despite claims that she was ’embarrassing’ herself. After vowing to stay away herewith’
Alarming: Alice accuses the Liar actor, who she claims has been in a relationship for three years, of being ‘friends with Bianca’ prior to the affair.
After her meeting, Alice took to Twitter to repeatedly likened her agony to her grief after losing her Mum, Dad, step-sister and best friend, accused Ioan of cruelty in branding her a ‘bullying manipulator’ and defended airing her dirty laundry online – as she insisted those who took issue with her behaviour should ‘just scroll past’.
Alice lost her mother in September 1999, and her step-sister, aged 15, committed suicide in February 2012.
She wrote, “Ok guys. Thank you so much that I was able to talk and discuss all of this with you.” Ioan and I have been together for 22 years. We never missed a single day of each other. What I learned today was a shock to my heart. Twitter has allowed me to see what is 1/2…
“Wrong” and “What is right.” Although I know that many of you felt embarrassed by my public disclosures, I want you to see how much it helped me. I will try to avoid this from now on. (Unless I’m confronted with something worse.)’.
After Ioan’s post that Bianca had ‘put a smile on her face again’, Alice launched a tirade. In which she made accusations about the couple and their romance, insisting that they were a married couple for three years.
Promise: Following her tangent, she later took to Twitter to insist using a public platform to vent had ‘helped her’ despite claims she was ’embarrassing herself’, before vowing to ‘stay away herewith’
Open and honest: In her frequent online candour, last month, Alice lamented losing her ‘pre-pandemic thinness’, as she shared a svelte throwback snap and penned: ‘Oh, pre-pandemic thinnness, where did you go?’
After her initial outburst, wardrobe assistant Amy Douglas – a friend and co-worker of Ioan, who worked with the star and Bianca on Australian series Harrow – denied Alice’s claims in a series of tweets, as she accused Alice herself of being ‘abusive,’ and insisted they didn’t begin speaking until filming for series three began in 2020.
Amy, who stated that Ioan and Bianca granted her permission to speak, stood by her pals after Alice claimed she had cheated on her for three consecutive years with the actress. Alice is 21 years her senior and told her fans she was a ‘lost and sorry’ woman.
Alice later wrote: ‘You completely and absolutely know that they began seeing each other before I was told he didn’t love me and wanted to divorce me. We can help you with this. But it’s not a great look to spitting on the victim. Even for a fashion designer.’
One of her Twitter fans wrote: “Alice,” my dear. You are not above public exposure. Alice replied, “Please don’t,” I have nothing left. The threats are worse. What would you suggest? (And you know that ai value your opinion)
Another online friend wrote: “You have all of us. Even though we don’t know each other beyond Twitter, I’d be happy to help you in any way I could. This is going to be one of the hardest journeys in your life but you’re strong and those girls will grow up strong because of you.’
Alice graciously replied: ‘Thank you. It doesn’t really matter. It won’t matter in the future. People who still talk about “IRL” friends are the same as those who were talking about books spring toys or wall phones spoiling letters. We evolve. MOST of my friends online are friends!
Alice replied to Ioan’s defense when one of her followers ran after her. Instead of saying “Look I’m sorry, my love has fallen in love”, he said that I was basically worth nothing…
Rage: In response to Amy, Alice later penned: ‘You totally and absolutely know that they started seeing each other before he told me he didn’t love me and wanted a divorce. We can help you with this. However, spitting on the victim is not a great look. Even for a fashion designer’
“He IS. He also posted an instagram picture today that showed more or less what everyone had been thinking. He has not only gone against his “OFW”, but he has also gone against his “no family photos” policy! I mean, WHO doesn’t want photos with their kidsz?
The follower then wrote: ‘You’re constantly trying to shame this guy, what’s the plan here? Forcing him into staying with you? Forcing him to love you? If a person feels like they don’t want to be with someone anymore, they have a right look for happiness elsewhere. Marriage is not the same as owning another person. 2/3’.
Alice replied, “What? Is it too much to expect that if he falls madly in love with a mother after 20 years of being together, he will sit down and tell me kindly? What’s better than spending 18 years sending threats via lawyers, refusing my calls and telling everyone that I am a bully or a manipulator?
Continuing in their reactions, the follower penned: ‘I really do feel your pain Alice, it’s one of the worst things in the world to be left & told you’re not loved anymore, but what are you trying to achieve here? It’s like you’re trying to reason feelings, someone fell out of love with you…
Anger: She slammed her critics and thanked other people for their support in her series of angry tweets
It happened to all of us. 1/3… I really do have sympathy, someone you love leaving you is the worst, but also she’s too cought up in her pain, not seeing she’s hurtful to others too. She says he had to let her know he’s dating someone. Did she tell him she would trash him on Twitter?
Alice, furious, wrote: “WHAT? WHAT THE F**KIN F**K? Who am I “hurting”? Because nothing shoots in LA, and we were a TEAM, I gave up my beloved career. How can you possibly compare the feelings I feel now to someone who has hurt their feelings? This is worse than losing Mom. Or my sister.
Another follower commented on Amy and her intervention, “Uh who is that person?” She doesn’t know s**t. Just trying to cover up to their cheating ways’, leading to Alice writing: ‘Her name is Amy Douglas. She has only ever worked on a film once – one episode of HARROW. She was a Extra. Bianca Wallace was an Extra. I’m not sure how many scenes or days. They seemed friendly.
One follower claimed Alice’s behavior was due to her star sign. He wrote: “This is a very Leo moment. Attention is more important than any other thing. Even when it’s embarrassingly desperate. It makes me sad.
Denial: After her initial outburst, wardrobe assistant Amy Douglas, and a friend of Ioan’s, denied Alice’s (pictured in 2015) claims as she accused Alice herself of being ‘abusive’
Not happy: She was furious at the situation
Alice swiftly responded: ‘Absolute crock of s**t Leo whatever. Nothing so terrible has ever happened to me (despite losing Mum, Dad and best friend). I don’t want attention. I know that I don’t want your prayers. You think I’m ’embarrassingly desperately’? In your dreams a*shole’.
She refused to be called a victim and wrote: “Oh Jeez. I am not “a victim”. In this scenario, I am “the victim”. I came from nothing, and everything I’ve achieved, I have done so entirely by my own efforts. This too will pass. Victim – my a*s.’
She revealed that her children knew about the drama in further messages. Ella wrote: “We’re all around breakfast table and Ella already saw in on hers. Mine comes up. (Elsie has it on hers, but isn’t really interested). What do YOU think “not telling truth” to kids is a good MO ?…
Anger: She made her anger known via social media later in day
“I did! What’s the alternative to that? Let her continue to believe that her Dad would never have another girlfriend, a mantra she’s stuck to for the past year. You think I should lie ????’
She continued, “I have never been able to understand people who don’t like divorcing or fighting over dirty linens on Twitter.” Why don’t people scroll past? My take? Disingenuousness. Disingenuousness.
‘I said “He blamed the collapse of our marriage on things I had done wrong, forcing me to try to change myself, when all the time he was s**ggin the 20 yo extra and I had nothing to do with it. HE LIE. He could have been truthful. It’s so hard ?… Oh wait! I get it! Are you saying there are “RULES?” God, that’s so silly. So…
“Tell us where the rules are.” There are no rules in marriage. Who would disagree? (Cos he can go and shag an random while we’re still married.) So tweet if s/o hurts you, I have to stay [quiet]”.
One fan brought it to her attention and asked: “Have ye seen this?” Alice replied, “Yep. It was my first scream of the morning. I hope that the middle thing isn’t a ring,” he wrote, referring to the shooting stars emoji he added in his post.
Prior to her latest onslaught on tweets, sources spoke to The Sun about the scenario, with insiders stating: ‘Ioan has denied so many things since they separated, and at times Alice began to doubt herself and wonder if she had things wrong in her own mind. She now feels that this confirms her beliefs.
Pain: One fan brought her attention to the image, saying: ‘Have you seen this? Alice replied: “I’m sure you have.” It was my first scream of the morning. It is my first cry of the day.
‘She had asked him many times if this was all about someone else, but Ioan told her it wasn’t — even though she suspected that may have been the case because his behaviour towards her changed so dramatically.
‘Now that she knows he has met someone else — and it’s someone he has known for so long — all of her other suspicions and doubts have come flooding back and it has totally floored her.
“Stuff she had been capable of burying and moving on from is now back in her mind and she has all those doubts and uncertainties again. It’s a terrible time.
A source within the industry said that he believed his relationship with Alice was over. He didn’t try to hide anything. Bianca and he certainly seem happy and at ease together. It is hoped that it will work out in the best interests of all.
Alice accused Tamzin Ofhwaite of knowing about it in a now-deleted comment. The former EastEnders actress wrote in a now-deleted commentary: “You look amazing. And younger somehow.’
Alice furiously replied, “@glamzin Tzin?” What the heck? This ???’ was something you knew. Tamzin, however, denied that she knew about Ioan’s affair with Bianca. Tamzin stated to MailOnline: “I didn’t know.” But I have nothing to add.
Rage: She attacked Bianca, claiming that they were best friends
Alice’s tweets were sent just minutes after Ioan made his love for Bianca official by sharing a beaming photo of him on-set with the caption: “Thank you for making my smile again” – which Chanel shared later and thanked Ioan for bringing Bianca joy.
Bianca’s social channels offer insight into her daily life. While her Instagram feed is full of bikini-clad shots, her Twitter feed contains profound quotes and multiple retweets. These accounts are all focused on the Law Of Attraction, which is a spiritual movement that promotes positivity in one’s lives.
Alice hasn’t been shy to openly discuss the end of her marriage and Ioan’s death on social media.
Alice filed for divorce in March from Ioan. They cited irreconcilable differences to be the reason they split.
The document, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on March 1, showed that the former couple divorced on New Year’s Day. This was a month after they made public their relationship status.
They had made a joint statement, which read: “As we can imagine, this has been an extremely difficult time in our family’s life and we remain committed towards our children. Thank you for respecting my privacy.
It was also reported that divorce papers state that the exes are in “collaborative processes” and plan to settle all issues, including spousal support, through written agreements.
Sister act: Bianca’s sister Chanel, 26, gave the relationship a firm seal of approval, as she shared the post on her Instagram stories
Alice had, however, addressed the split in a shocking statement she shared to Twitter in January. She claimed Ioan had’mentally tortured her’.
The mother-of-two also accused her estranged husband of ‘winding the s**t up me’ as she posted a vitriolic video about their ‘collaborative divorce’ talks.
Alice and Ioan They met at the set of 102 Dalmatians when Alice was in a relationship to Olivier, Pablo Picasso’s great-grandson.
Ioan and she were engaged six years later when Ioan gave her an ultimatum about her relationship. In September 2007, they tied the knot in Mexico in an intimate ceremony.
Ioan has not publicly addressed the couple’s divorcement.