Fans of Alice Evans have poured $1,253 into her GoFundMe account in the hours after she took to social media to make a desperate plea for help.
The actress, 56, admitted she has hit ‘rock bottom’ and claimed she and her two daughters are about to be homeless. She begged supporters to offer up a spare room and admitted she is ‘terrified’ in the distressing Instagram posts.
The posts prompted a flurry of donations to the GoFundMe account Alice set up for herself in 2021 when she split from her Marvel actor husband Ioan Gruffudd, the father of her daughters Ella, 15, and Elsie, 11, and began acrimonious divorce proceedings.
The goal set for the online fund has a target of $25,000. So far $8,792 has been raised over the past four years – including a flurry of donations topping $1,253 in the 24 hours since her renewed request for help.
Alice Evans claims she and her daughters Ella, 15, and Elsie, 11, are about to become homeless.
The actress set up a GoFundMe for fans to donate to help her find a new home after claiming she is about to lose her house after an acrimonious divorce with Ioan Gruffudd.
In a message on the platform, Alice wrote: ‘I’m so embarrassed about this. If you’re here you know my story. You know how much I struggle to keep my two girls healthy and happy and a roof over their heads. You know what I’ve been through. It never ends.
‘I’m just getting squeezed in every which way and smeared in the media so that nobody even wants to employ me.
‘I need help getting the girls and I to our next place. Moving costs and deposit. We have found such lovely little places – tiny, but they felt like home. We don’t need much. I am selling most of my stuff and have jobs lined up to keep us on our feet. We just need that extra bit to get us over the finish line.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all those of you who have shown me compassion and love and understanding. I will never, ever forget your kindness – every single one of you.’
In court documents file this month Alice claimed that she, Ella, 15, and Elsie, 11, would soon be left on the streets because her financial situation is so ‘dire’.
She claims her former husband Ioan Gruffudd, is living in comfort in a $5,500-a-month apartment and a home gym while she and their two children cannot afford ‘basic necessities’.
Ioan, who starred in the Fantastic Four superhero movie, filed for divorce from Alice in March 2021, shortly after she announced on social media that her husband of 14 years was walking out on her and their children.
Alice has been actively updating her social media amid the divorce, and on Wednesday night begged her 97,000 Instagram followers to ‘please help her’ and offer up any accommodation.
Alongside a picture of her floorboards, she penned: ‘I’m not doing well. I need help. Somebody please. I’m terrified.’
Alice Evans admitted she has hit ‘rock bottom’ as she begged her fans for help
The actress, 56, claimed in court documents this month that she, Ella, 15, and Elsie, 11, would soon be left on the streets following her divorce from Ioan Gruffudd (pictured in 2018)
Legally Blonde actor Matthew Davis – who starred alongside Alice in The Vampire Diaries – was quick to comment, writing: ‘Reach out anytime. I’m here for you.’
Alice then shared another post that read: ‘Four years of hell. And now the girls and I are going to be homeless.
‘Somebody please help. I think I have reached rock bottom.
‘In 16 days we have nowhere to go. Does anybody have a spare room? I’m so sorry for this. So embarrassed.’
On her Instagram stories she reflected on the period since her split from Ioan.
The former couple have been engaged in an increasingly bitter divorce which has been playing out in legal filings at the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Alice wrote: ‘I can’t do this anymore. It’s been over four years. Just me and the girls. Keeping them safe. Trying to provide for their every need.
‘We have nowhere to live from June 1st. I’m so sorry for putting this on everyone but I am at my wit’s end.
‘I just want a safe place for me and the kids to call home. We have found some lovely little places but we need a co-signer. I’m desperate.’
In court documents, Alice accused Ioan, 51, who married his second wife Bianca Wallace last month, of ‘intentionally’ turning down acting gigs to keep his income low during their split and avoid having to pay her more.
She wrote that she has long been in a ‘precarious’ financial situation and has already applied for benefits to make ends meet.
Alice has been actively updating her social media amid the divorce, and on Wednesday night begged her 97,000 Instagram followers to ‘please help her’
Legally Blonde actor Matthew Davis – who starred alongside Alice in The Vampire Diaries – was quick to comment, writing: ‘Reach out anytime. I’m here for you’
Alice then shared another post that read: ‘In 16 days we have nowhere to go. Does anybody have a spare room? I’m so sorry for this. So embarrassed’
On her Instagram Stories she reflected on the period since her split from Ioan. Since then the former couple have been engaged in an increasingly bitter divorce
In September last year Ioan agreed to pay her $3,000 per month in child support and $1,500 a month in spousal support.
But Alice claimed that her financial situation has become ‘dire’ because that $4,500 is not enough to live in Los Angeles.
Even combined with her earnings from attending fan conventions – she starred in the 2011 TV series The Vampire Diaries, among other projects – was not enough.
The money is ‘insufficient to cover the children’s and my basic necessities’, Alice wrote in a 60-page court filing.
During a hearing in March this year, Ioan claimed that he ‘does not really believe I am really facing eviction’ and secretly has enough money to pay for it, Alice wrote.
She claimed: ‘He went on to testify that I was faking eviction in an effort to make him look bad and negatively impact his public image, and even, quite bizarrely, to “increase Alice’s personal exposure”.
‘Apart from the fact that this is simply untrue, it is both shocking and offensive that Petitioner would stoop to such a level as to accuse me of faking not only my own impending homelessness and level of poverty but that of the two children we share who he has chosen not to see in order to affect him in some way. I am astonished by his assertions’.
Despite working constantly including teaching French, Italian, piano, tutoring actors and selling merch related to her career, Alice claimed she hasn’t been able to pay her rent.
Ioan, who starred in the Fantastic Four superhero movie, filed for divorce from Alice in March 2021, shortly after she announced on social media that her husband of 14 years had left her
She wrote that in January her landlord had begun eviction proceedings, known in the US as an unlawful detainer case.
Alice wrote: ‘I was pleased that we are able to come to an agreement that allows us to continue living at this apartment through June 1, 2025, so the children can continue in their current schools through the end of the school year.
‘It is my belief that Petitioner is taking advantage of my dire financial situation in order to force me into agreeing to an overall settlement that is not in my best interests nor the best interests of our children’.
Meanwhile, Ioan and Bianca have ‘managed to upgrade to a more spacious apartment for just the two of them with a pool, a home gym and more natural light, for which they pay $5,500 per month’, it is alleged.
Alice claimed she appealed to Ioan for help being the co-signer on an apartment because her income is not high enough for most homes.
But he rejected her requests, Alice said in the court documents, adding that she had contacted homeless shelters in Los Angeles but they are ‘all full’, in part due to the recent wildfires.
‘Much as I hope to find a home for us, I need to be realistic and given that the date of June 1st is quickly approaching, I will probably have to place all of our belongings in storage and find a motel or similar temporary lodging for the children and I,’ Alice wrote.
‘It is incredibly scary – I have friends who have offered to put me and the girls up should we not find a place, but only for a week or two.’
Alice also made claims about Ioan’s acting career: his latest movie, Bad Boys: Ride or Die grossed more than $403million worldwide but it is unclear how much he will get from it.
Alice accused Ioan, who married Bianca Wallace (pictured) last month, of ‘intentionally’ turning down acting gigs to keep his income low during their split and avoid having to pay her more
According to Alice, Ioan once made more than $1million a year but has been turning away work on purpose.
She claimed: ‘I believe that Petitioner is intentionally not taking jobs because we are in the middle of litigating the financials of the dissolution of our marriage.
‘I believe that he will go back to working regularly, and therefore earn additional income after the support orders are set’.
A judge ordered that both sides attend court on August 2 for Ioan’s application to renew a restraining order on Alice.
In court documents Ioan said he will testify, as will Bianca and Linda Blank, who was one of the managers of both Ioan and Alice’s fan clubs between 2016 and 2014.
Ioan claimed that Alice has repeatedly breached the terms of the order, which was put in place in August 2022, including by barging into their child’s school while he was having a meeting with a teacher – despite checking they had not booked an appointment at the same time.
Another alleged incident happened in July 2020 when Ioan received panicked phone calls and text messages from his children, stating that their mother was ‘openly consuming cocaine’.
He added that while he was on a Facetime call he witnessed Alice attempt to give their daughters the Class A drug, the documents he filed in court say.
It came after the children claimed their mother had left the door to their family home unlocked so a ‘drug dealer could enter’, the documents also say.
Ioan’s lawyers refused to comment when contacted by MailOnline.
