Ioan Gruffudd granted three-year restraining order against Alice Evans which ‘prohibits her from mentioning him on social media’-Mel Evans-Entertainment – Metro

Ioan Gruffudd has been granted a restraining order, following his split with Alice Evans (Picture: David Livingston/Getty Images)

Actor Ioan Gruffudd has been granted a restraining order against his estranged wife Alice Evans, which also bans her from mentioning him on social media amid their acrimonious divorce, according to reports.

The pair have been locked in a bitter battle since their split in March last year, which has played out on social media, with the Liar actor since moving on with new girlfriend, Bianca Wallace.

Alice – who shares daughters Ella, 12, and Elsie, eight, with Ioan – has shared several posts to her social media in the wake of their split, including screenshots purporting to be between Gruffudd and one of his daughters, as well as a video of her reacting to a legal declaration filed by the actor.

Earlier this year Liar actor Ioan filed a restraining order against Alice claiming that he was inundated with messages and verbal threats from his estranged wife, and previously won a temporary restraining order.

Now, according to MailOnline, a US judge approved a three-year Domestic Violence Restraining Order with restrictions ‘including a ruling preventing Alice from leaking private text messages from their children’.

The order is reported to expire on August 2, 2025.

The pair, here in 2018, met in 2000 (Picture: Alberto Terenghi/IPA/REX/Shutterstock)

The pair share two daughters (Picture: Amanda Edwards/WireImage)

A source told the outlet, which also reported Ioan was in attendance outside the LA court alongside two of his legal representatives: ‘Ioan had no choice but to up his legal fight over Alice.

‘She had become increasingly volatile and seemingly intent on destroying his career with her character assassination. He hopes this will put an end to it.’

Court documents obtained by the outlet show Ioan claimed his ex continued to ’cause him issues’ and that he wanted provisions added to the existing restraining order.

It’s also reported Alice shouldn’t share any posts on her social media, ‘including but not limited to Instagram and Twitter accounts, disparaging or harassing [Ioan] or the other protected person,’ which is listed as Bianca.

The actress has previously shared posts to social media amid their divorce (Picture: Instagram / Alice Evans)

Ioan also asked Alice ‘not to post any of his texts or other communications to the pair’s children, or the children’s text messages to their dad’, while she also reportedly shouldn’t contact the actor’s employer under the restrictions.

Alice and Ioan met on the set of 102 Dalmatians in 2000, marrying seven years later before Ioan filed for divorce last year citing irreconcilable differences.

Ioan has since moved on with Bianca Wallace (Picture: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

Ioan filed an initial restraining order against Alice at the beginning of this year, including over 100 documents showing messages thought to be from his ex, accusing him of drug use, threatening to ‘call every tabloid in the UK’ and hurling insults at him and girlfriend.

In his court filing, he also claimed Alice verbally threatened to tell the media he had abused her and she would ‘do to me what Amber Heard did to Johnny Depp’.

Alice rejected all the claims in the restraining order application and says she believes he is filing ‘as a ploy to gain some sort of advantage over me in our divorce proceedings’.

It was later revealed that she had filed to seek custody of their daughters, asking for Ioan to be given visitation rights.

Metro.co.uk contacted reps for Ioan as well as Alice for comment.

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