Alice Evans claims a bitter feud with ex Ioan Gruffudd helped his career
Alice Evans has claimed her bitter feud with ex-husband Ioan Gruffudd has boosted his career.
RadarOnline.com can reveal 102 Dalmatians The 57-year-old actress responded to a question in court asking whether her campaign of intimidation and trash talk against the Marvel star was intended to get him blacklisted in Hollywood.
Evans answered categorically “no,” before ranting about the morals of the movie business and its stars.
“Hollywood is not a bastion of morality,” she told the trial in LA Superior Court, where she is asking Gruffudd, 52, to pay out more than the $1,500 a month he pays her in spousal support while he tries to pay her nothing more.
“Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck and Jude Law have all been involved in fraud scandals,” she said. “Brad Pitt was accused of assaulting his child on a plane, but he’s still winning Oscars and Golden Globes.”
“Many people have been involved in fraud scandals,” she continued. “That kind of thing doesn’t hurt actors, it makes them more interesting.”
Evans’ surprising comments came during a bitter court battle in which Judge Michael Convey had already imposed a five-year restraining order on her over her harassment of Gruffudd, and his new wife, Australian actress Bianca Wallace, 33, the woman Evans accused him of cheating on during their marriage.
In the second phase of the trial, Gruffudd asks the judge to stop spousal support altogether, based on Evans’ “ongoing domestic violence” and her “many violations of a previous restraining order,” plus the actor’s claim that he has already “overpaid” Evans by nearly $400,000.
In the witness box, Evans told how her career took a back seat to Gruffudd’s after they decided to have children when she was 39.
Because of her age, “nothing happened,” so they went for IVF treatments, which meant she had to stay within four hours of Los Angeles and couldn’t travel.
After becoming pregnant with their daughter Ella in December 2008, she filmed one episode Lost.
But after Ella, now sixteen, was born, she said: ‘Ioan and I decided that one of us would always stay at home with her.’
At one point, she said, she thought she could continue with her acting career: “I can have a baby, I can be a superwoman.”
She soon realized this wasn’t possible, especially after their second daughter Elsie, now 12, was born, also with the help of IVF.
“I had to turn down acting jobs – I had to forego auditions,” said Evans, who often took the children to foreign film sets where Gruffudd worked. ‘It was impossible for me to audition or travel for work.’
With Gruffudd’s career taking off, she said the two decided to focus on his success.
“His earning power was so much greater than mine,” she explained, as her compensation per TV episode was $7,000 while Gruffudd’s was $105,000.
When asked by her lawyer, Janina Verano, if she had helped Gruffudd’s career, Evans said: “Absolutely. I read every script that was sent to him… we discussed every role. He always referred to me as his other manager.”
