Alice Evans’ ‘malicious and false’ social media posts about her ex-husband Ioan Gruffudd, hurt the Fantastic Four star’s acting career, his manager told a Los Angeles court Monday.
Veteran Hollywood manager Maryellen Mulcahy testified on the fifth day of trial where Gruffudd, 52, is trying to renew a domestic violence restraining order against Evans.
‘I definitely think they had an impact on his career,’ Mulcahy stated.
Gruffudd said his seeking the renewal was because of Evans ‘relentless five-year campaign of harassment and abuse’ against him and his new wife, Bianca Wallace, 33.
‘Many of Evans’ posts about her former spouse were ‘malicious, angry and bitter statements that had no basis in truth,’ said Mulcahy.
The first thing prospective movie industry employers, plus agents and publicists do when they’re thinking of an actor for a role, is ‘Google them,’ she went on.
‘And if they come up with stuff like that [Evans trash talking posts] their response is going to be, “Is there any truth to this?”
‘It caused hesitation. It was a problem – one hundred per cent.’
Gruffudd and Evans broke up in 2021 and went through a messy divorce that was finalized in 2023. Since then they’ve been locked in a bitter feud over money and their daughters Ella, 16, and Elsie, 12.
Last April the Welsh actor married Australian-born Wallace, who bore him a baby girl, Mia, in November.
Evans, 57, claims she’s broke and wants the court to order Gruffudd to increase the $1,500 a month he pays her in spousal support and the $3,000 a month he pays in child support for their two girls – who, he says, have been ‘poisoned and alienated’ against him by their mother.
He wants to stop paying spousal support altogether, based upon Alice’s persistent domestic abuse of him and her many violations of the [previous] restraining order and maintains that he has already ‘overpaid’ Evans by almost $400,000.
Mulcahy – who used to manage Evans as well – tried to persuade Alice to take down her derogatory posts about Gruffudd.
‘But her response was hostile,’ she added.
‘Her posts were provocative and dangerous and they weren’t helpful to the careers of either of them. It was not a good look.’
Mulcahy said she was shocked when, after asking Alice to kill her derogatory posts, Evans turned on her.
Evans even falsely accusing her of knowing ‘for years’ that Gruffudd was having an affair with Wallace while he was still married, according to Mulcahy.
In an email, Evans wrote to her: ‘He thinks he’s God. I have nothing to lose. When someone has nothing to lose they become dangerous.’
’Alice said I was choosing the wrong side and I would go down with him, that I would regret siding with him,’ Mulcahy said.
‘It was threatening. It was scary. I thought she was threatening my career and my business. I thought she was threatening to ruin Ioan’s career.’
