Ioan Gruffudd testified that his ex-wife Alice Evans threatened to ruin his career by making false and explosive accusations against him.
The “Fantastic Four” star’s trial against Evans begins Monday, in which he is asking the court to renew a restraining order he and his new wife, Bianca Wallace, had in place.
They claim Evans stalked them and trolled them online.
The Daily Mail reported that Mr Gruffudd claimed in court that his ex-wife had threatened to destroy him and his career by giving him an “amber hearing”. Gruffudd was referring to Johnny Depp’s successful 2018 lawsuit against Heard for $50 million for defamation in a Washington Post editorial about abuse.
The actor recounted an incident in which he was driving his children (daughters Ella, 16, and Elsie, 12) to his car after a scheduled visit when Evans loudly berated him and yelled obscenities “in his head.”
“She said she was going to destroy me and make me ‘Amber Heard,'” he told the court, according to the newspaper. “Then she told the girls, ‘If Daddy is being physically weird or creepy about you, please let me know.'”
“She accused me of being a child molester, a pedophile and a drug addict,” he claimed. “She said I was crazy about sex and drugs and millennials.”
The 52-year-old actor said he was “upset” by the lengths Evans would go to to defame him.
Mr Gruffudd claimed Mr Evans, 57, told him: “You’re not going to be an actor, you’re just going to beg for money.”
“I was worried that she would take advantage of my public image and create a bigger scandal than Brad and Angelina. I felt that was incredibly threatening,” he said.
Mr Gruffudd also claimed Mr Wallace, 33, whom he married in April 2025, was also threatened by Evans, the Daily Mail also reported.
“She fabricated false charges against Bianca and intended to have her deported,” he said, claiming that she hired a private investigator for Wallace.
Representatives for Gruffaz and Evans did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
The two separated in 2021, and their divorce was finalized in 2023. In October 2021, Evans accused Wallace, a former friend of hers, of having had an affair for three years, a charge Evans denied in court.
In February 2022, Mr. Gruffudd applied for a restraining order against Mr. Evans. In documents obtained by Page Six, he claimed that Evans “repeatedly told me from August 2020 until their separation on January 1, 2021 that if I broke up with her, she would make false accusations about me in public, peddle false stories about me to the press, and destroy me and my career.”
Evans also claimed that he “verbally stated on numerous occasions that Amber Heard would do to me the same thing that she did to Johnny Depp.”
He was sentenced to a three-year restraining order against her in August 2022, but the drama continued. The former couple’s eldest daughter, Ella, applied for a restraining order against both her father and Wallace in June 2023, but the request was denied.
In July 2024, Ms. Evans petitioned Los Angeles Superior Court to order increased child support and spousal support from Mr. Gruffudd, claiming that she was on the brink of bankruptcy.
“While I struggle to put food on the table for my children, Ioan jets around the world,” she claimed in court documents obtained by Page Six.
She also claimed that “I used up all my personal savings to pay my previous lawyers and pay their fees on this case.”
