Gruffudd Wins Court Battle Against Alice Evans

'Ioan and Bianca have a reasonable fear that Alice will continue her behavior, based on her many violations of the restraining order.'

He added, 'Alice cannot remediate the damage she has done. Her derogatory posts on the internet are available forever for all to see.'

Langlois scoffed at Evans's 'unconvincing show of remorse' last week and her claim to being sorry about her online harassment of Gruffudd and Wallace, saying, 'Her confession was nowhere near good enough to prove that she has moved on.

'Alice has a lack of true contrition. She is still denying and making excuses for her abusive behavior. She has never taken any steps to reform her abusive character.'

Evans's attorney, Verano, told the court that when Evans embarked on her online harassment of Gruffudd in 2021, 'It was the end of covid, she was isolated, she was facing the loss of her marriage.'

Any hope of reconciling with Gruffudd was 'crushed' when she . 'She lost her mind, she was devastated,' said Verano.

But today, her lawyer went on, 'Alice is in a very different place. She has moved on with her life.'

Verano insisted that Evans's abusive emails and texts had stopped. 'There are no threats. Alice has deactivated her Twitter account.,' she told the court.

She added that while some of Evans's more recent social media posts 'talk about what she's been through….they are not meant to disturb Ioan's peace. Alice's conduct has changed quite a bit.'

The three-year RO imposed on Evans in August 2022, impacted her ability to work and travel, said Verano who told the court that she had lost jobs because of the RO and flying into the USA with her daughters, she and the girls are always detained at airports, 'which frightens the girls because they're afraid she might end up in jail.'

She said that renewing the RO, which has a 'stay away' clause requiring Evans to keep 100 feet away from Gruffudd, would mean that her daughters would have to choose which parent shows up at their school graduations and other family events.

Verano closed asking Judge Convey to deny Gruffudd's request to renew the RO, telling the court, 'Alice is learning. She has grown.'

Wednesday's RO ruling marks the end of the first phase of what's expected to be a nine-day trial. The second phase this week will deal with the child and spousal support disputes of the former couple who spent more than 20 years together.

Evans claims she's broke and wants the court to order him to increase the $1,500 a month he pays her in spousal support and the $3,000 a month he pays in child support.

Gruffudd maintains that their girls 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 restraining order' and insists that he has already 'overpaid' Evans by almost $400,000.