Ioan Gruffudd ‘files restraining order against estranged wife Alice Evans’

Ioan Gruffudd has filed a restraining order against his estranged wife Alice Evans, claiming that she threatened to do to him ‘what Amber Heard did to Johnny Depp‘. 

Court documents seen by MailOnline show the Welsh actor wants the 53-year-old – who he is in the process of divorcing – to stay 100 yards away from him and his new girlfriend, Bianca Wallace, and not be allowed to contact either of them. 

In a declaration attached to the restraining order, Ioan, 48, says he told Alice in August 2020 that he was unhappy in their relationship. 

He claims she then told him that if he left her she would make false public accusations about him and sell stories to the press.

‘Alice told me verbally multiple times that she would do to me what Amber Heard did to Johnny Depp,’ he wrote in the document. Alice threatened to tell people I had abused her and our daughters; she threatened to call the police on me if I did not comply with her demands.

‘She threatened to tell people I am a drug addict and put me in prison; she threatened to write a fake diary that reflected an abused victim, and to have the diary published; and she threatened to destroy my mother. Alice told me she would win, and everyone would believe her over me.’ 

In the declaration, Ioan goes on to claim Alice had already made ‘false and harassing’ posts about him on social media’, as well as sending ‘hundreds’ of abusive emails, texts and video calls. 

The actor claimed she had also turned on his new girlfriend, Bianca Wallace, such as by publishing private information about her.  

He continued: ‘It was extremely upsetting and stressful for me to continuously receive these types of hostile and aggressive text messages from Alice. On July 22, 2021, I blocked Alice’s phone number on my phone.’ 

Alice rejected all the claims made by Ioan in the restraining order application. 

She wrote: ‘I believe that Petitioner is filing this request merely as a ploy to gain some sort of advantage over me in our divorce proceedings. 

‘As Petitioner has not seen our children for over 8 months, I believe he is trying to set some type of record that I am a horrible mother.’ 

Alice was seen heading for a stroll in Los Angeles, with pictures showing her covering a ‘horrible’ black eye with sunglasses. 

The actress wrapped up in an oversized black kaftan and striped shorts while carrying her dog during the walk.

Alice, who split from husband in January 2021, revealed on Instagram she suffered a painful black eye after ‘falling down the stairs in heels,’ explaining she has had to put ‘a stack’ of her Cameo requests on hold due to the incident.

Alice cut a casual figure in a black kaftan wrapped around her as she headed out for a walk in the sunshine, teamed with cropped striped shorts and suede loafers.

The star was accompanied by her dog during the walk, having first shared the injury with her Instagram followers on Monday. 

Standing in the California sunshine in a striped top and red sunglasses, the doting mother explained: ‘Hi guys, quick update [gestures to bruising around her eye].

‘If you requested me on Cameo and it’s expired, please do it again. All I have to say to you is I tried to run up a couple of steps to pick up a dropped mask in heels on Thursday, just after I’d recorded my last Instagram.’

She added: ‘And, you don’t want to see what’s underneath here, but it’s horrible and I have a stack of requests that are piling up that I can’t do because eye-hurty. I’m thinking about three or four days for this, sorry!’

Alice previously announced her decision to join Cameo, sharing an Instagram video captioned: ‘I am on Cameo!! Watch this and PLEASE book me! I am a single mum and sadly need the money.

‘But the good news is that I’m cheap as chips! So do one yourself and pass it on! I love you guys [sic].’

Alice is selling video messages for personal use priced at £30 and messages for businesses at £207.

In the clip, Alice stated: ‘In case you didn’t know, I’m on Cameo now and will do anything you want. No, I will not take my clothes off.

‘No, I will not cut my hair off as there’s nothing left of it anyway. No, I will not engage in sexual acts with other people… that’s for the other site whatever it is. 

‘But I will, any questions you have to ask me, any anniversaries, any birthdays, any anything. I am a little bit clumsy so sometimes I get it wrong but it’s a little bit funny anyway.

‘That’s about it really. I just want you to know that I am fully, fully engaged in this and I will endeavor to do the best I can for anyone. And if you don’t like it I will do another one for free, ok.

‘Also, my husbands trying to take all the money away – I shouldn’t say that, but I’m going to make sure I make more money than him, haha, love you.’

Alice, who shares daughters Ella, 12, and Elsie, eight, with husband of 13 years Ioan Gruffudd confirmed their split in a series of furious tweets posted in January 2021.

She has since documented every toxic turn in their subsequent divorce proceedings across social media, and repeatedly slated him for being in a relationship with Bianca Wallace.

MailOnline has contacted Ioan and Alice for comment.