The result is the latest chapter of what is considered one of the most bitter splits in Hollywood history<\/a>. <\/p>\n In 2022, Evans was banned from mentioning Hornblower actor Gruffudd, 52, on social media after he alleged she used accounts to \u201charass, threaten and disturb the peace\u201d of him and his new wife, Bianca Wallace<\/a>, whom he married last year.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Alice Evans has a five-year restraining order preventing her from going near ex Ioan Gruffudd (Getty)<\/p>\n Evans, an actor who appeared in The Vampire Diaries and Lost, was also urged to keep 100ft away from the couple.<\/p>\n During the latest Los Angeles trial, the Daily Mail<\/a> reports that Evans confessed to sharing negative comments about Gruffudd and Wallace online, stating she was \u201cashamed and regretful\u201d of her actions. <\/p>\n However, the judge, noting the \u201cmultiple\u201d times Evans violated terms of the original order, ruled she must stick to the rules of the restraining order until at least 2031.<\/p>\n Judge Convey described Evans\u2019s flurry of social media posts aimed at Gruffudd and Wallace as a \u201cconcerted, focused, intentional and caustic campaign of denigration\u201d, adding that her \u201cthreats of force and intimidation\u201d led to fears of their \u201cphysical safety\u201d. <\/p>\n He added: \u201cShe intended to hurt him economically and damage his career.\u201d<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Gruffudd and new wife Biance Wallace, who the judge said have been targeted by a \u2018caustic campaign of denigration\u2019 (Getty)<\/p>\n The judge acknowledged that Evans\u2019s bombardment had \u201cabated somewhat\u201d, but questioned her apology, asking: \u201cIs it true remorse? I am not persuaded. But it is a positive step forward.\u201d<\/p>\n Judge Convey said Evans\u2019 \u201cpattern of abuse\u201d, which led to her \u201cvowing to dedicate her life to fighting\u201d her ex, endangered his relationship with their two daughters, whom Evans said Gruffudd has not seen for two years. Judge Convey urged the pair to \u201cfind a way to co-parent\u201d. <\/p>\n The Independent has contacted Gruffudd and Evans for comment on the ruling, which follows a week-long court case. They married in 2007 and separated in January 2021, finalising the divorce two years later.<\/p>\n During the trial, Gruffudd, 52, said he was \u201cdisturbed\u201d and \u201canxious\u201d over the lengths he believed Evans would go to generate a scandal. The actor described alleged incidents involving Evans, in which he told the court his ex \u201csaid she was going to destroy me and she was going to \u2018Amber Heard<\/a>\u2019 me\u201d. <\/p>\n Actor Heard, 39, lost a libel lawsuit brought by her ex-husband Depp<\/a>, 62, for implying he abused her in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed. Depp previously lost his lawsuit against The Sun newspaper after the newspaper referred to him as a \u201cwife-beater\u201d. Depp has always vehemently denied being violent towards Heard.<\/p>\n In his original restraining order filed in 2022<\/a>, Gruffudd alleged that Evans told him repeatedly between August 2020 and January that if he left her, \u201cshe would make false public accusations about me, sell false stories about me to the press, and destroy me and my career\u201d.<\/p>\n In a response to the petition in 2022, Evans said that she had \u201cno idea what [Gruffudd] is going to accuse me of\u201d.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Alice Evans and Ioan Gruffudd were married in 2007 and separated in 2021 (Getty)<\/p>\n \u201cI have not hit, struck, attacked, threatened, assaulted, harassed, followed, stalked, molested, destroyed the personal property of, kept under surveillance, impersonated, blocked the movement of, annoyed by phone or electronic means by repeated contact, or disturbed the peace [of Gruffudd or Wallace]\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n In July 2024, Evans said she had been left destitute and was applying for food stamps<\/a>. The actor said she had been left \u201cstruggling to put food on the table for the children\u201d while her ex-partner is \u201cjet-setting around the world\u201d, according to legal documents seen by the Daily Mail.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI cannot wait months for a trial to receive child support and spousal support,\u201d she wrote, adding that she currently makes $300 a month in royalties, but hopes to increase her income through appearances at conventions.<\/p>\n Gruffudd is known for his early roles in James Cameron\u2019s Titanic and as the lead in Hornblower. He later rose to wider fame opposite Clive Owen and Keira Knightley in the 2004 historical adventure film Lancelot, as Reed Richards\/Mr Fantastic in the 2005 superhero movie Fantastic Four, and in ITV\u2019s critically acclaimed series Liar.<\/p>\n Evans has appeared in films including 102 Dalmations and British sports-comedy Blackball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-459026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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