Actress Alice Evans is searching for custody of her two youngsters after her estranged husband Ioan Gruffudd filed a home violence restraining order towards her.
Folks stories that Evans is searching for bodily and authorized custody over her daughters Ella, 12, and Elsie, eight, and is citing irreconcilable variations within the dissolution of her and Ioan Gruffudd’s marriage.
The transfer comes after Gruffudd, 48, filed for the home violence restraining order towards Evans, 53, on Thursday, citing within the petition that Evans had “repeatedly” harassed him.
“[Alice has] repeatedly informed me between August 2020 and our separation on January 1, 2021, that if I left her, she would make false public accusations about me, promote false tales about me to the press, and destroy me and my profession,” his petition learn. Alice has denied his allegations of home violence.
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In Evans’ custody petition, she has requested that little one visitation rights be granted to Gruffudd, in addition to numerous different requests.
In addition to full bodily and authorized custody, Evans is asking for spousal help, and for the termination of the courtroom’s capacity to award spousal help to Gruffudd. She has additionally requested that her legal professional charges be paid by Gruffudd and needs the courtroom to find out the rights to their shared dwelling in Los Angeles.
In Gruffudd’s restraining order request to a California courtroom on Thursday, he claimed that Evans has been harassing his new girlfriend, Australian actress Bianca Wallace, 29. But quite a few textual content messages filed by Gruffudd’s lawyer reveal over 100 “pleading” messages and emails despatched by Evans to Gruffudd after he filed for divorce final yr.
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Gruffudd is requesting that Evans has to remain 100 yards (approx. 91 metres) away from himself and Wallace, and that she shouldn’t be allowed to contact them.
Evans has denied all of Gruffudd’s claims and stated she doesn’t comply with a stay-away or no-contact order.
“I imagine that Petitioner is submitting this request merely as a ploy to achieve some form of benefit over me in our courtroom proceedings,” Evans says in courtroom paperwork, per The Mirror.
In his restraining order plea, Gruffudd expanded on Evans’ alleged abuse.
“Alice threatened to inform folks I had abused her and our daughters; she threatened to name the police on me if I didn’t comply along with her calls for; she threatened to inform folks I’m a drug addict and put me in jail; she threatened to jot down a faux diary that mirrored an abused sufferer, and to have the diary printed; and she or he threatened to destroy my mom,” he claimed.
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