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Ioan Gruffudd and Alice Evans are legally divorced — however their drama is way from over.
In response to 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 almost 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 through Twitter that her then-husband needed to name 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 handle 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 personal correspondence from their kids.
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The drama continued, nonetheless, earlier this 12 months when Us confirmed that the previous couple’s eldest daughter filed her personal restraining order towards Gruffudd and his girlfriend for “home violence prevention.” In response to docs obtained by the Each day Mail in Might, 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 capable of 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 bought bruised, and I had small bump on my head,” Ella claimed.
A decide denied Ella’s request towards Wallace in June, stating that the teenager “didn’t maintain the relevant burden of proof.” Nevertheless, the non permanent restraining order towards her father was prolonged till their July 13 listening to.