Ioan Gruffudd’s wife Alice Evans reveals the actor is ‘leaving their family’

Ioan Gruffudd’s wife has claimed the actor is ‘leaving the family next week’ after 13 years of marriage and two decades together. 

Actress Alice Evans, 49, took to Twitter on Monday evening to share the ‘sad news’, claiming the Welsh screen star, 47, said he ‘no longer loves her’ and has left her young daughters, Ella, 11, and Elsie, seven, feeling ‘very confused and sad’.

The mother-of-two wrote in the shock statement: ‘Sad news. My beloved husband/soulmate of 20 years, Ioan Gruffudd, has announced he is to leave his family, starting next week. 

‘Me and our young daughters girls are very confused and sad. We haven’t been given a reason except that he ‘no longer loves me’. I’m so sorry.’ 

Break-up: Ioan Gruffudd has split from his wife Alice Evans following a 13-year marriage (pictured in 2018)

'Our young daughters and I are very confused and sad': Actress Alice, 49, took to Twitter on Monday to share the 'sad news', claiming the Welsh screen star, 47, said he 'no longer loves her'

‘Our young daughters and I are very confused and sad’: Actress Alice, 49, took to Twitter on Monday to share the ‘sad news’, claiming the Welsh screen star, 47, said he ‘no longer loves her’

The couple met on the set of 102 Dalmatians in 2000, when she was in a relationship with Pablo Picasso’s grandson Olivier.

The pair became engaged six years later after she gave him an ultimatum about their relationship, and tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in Mexico in September 2007. 

Ioan previously gushed about their strong bond and ‘fantastic relationship’.

He stated in an interview with Who: ‘When we first got engaged, there were a lot of people who were like, ”Oh actors who are married can get quite difficult because there’s too many egos involved.” But we’ve just had a fantastic relationship.’

The couple’s daughters were conceived through IVF after discovering Alice had a low antral follicle count at the age of 38.  

Background: The Titanic star and the Liars All actress became engaged on New Year's Day in 2006 later and tied the knot in Mexico in September 2007 (pictured in 2016)

Background: The Titanic star and the Liars All actress became engaged on New Year’s Day in 2006 later and tied the knot in Mexico in September 2007 (pictured in 2016)

Early beginnings: The couple met on the set of 102 Dalmatians in 2000 (pictured), when she was in a relationship with Pablo Picasso’s grandson Olivier

Early beginnings: The couple met on the set of 102 Dalmatians in 2000 (pictured), when she was in a relationship with Pablo Picasso’s grandson Olivier

They welcomed their first child after one round of IVF, while their youngest girl arrived after eight rounds of treatment – which costs upwards of £7,000. 

Alice wrote in Daily Mail in 2016: ‘Extremely high blood pressure earned me total bed rest for the last two months of the [first] pregnancy and then there I was, in a hospital bed, sweating and screaming and writhing about – just like on television.

‘A mere 40 hours later Ella arrived, a 6lb 2oz lobster-red baby-alien. Instantly none of my other plans mattered. This was the thing I should have done years ago. The only thing. It was as close to being in heaven as I’d ever get.

‘This time our first cycle failed. As did our second. Our third didn’t even produce any eggs to fertilise. Our fourth gave us a few to freeze. It wasn’t working. 

Tough journey: The thespians' daughters were conceived through IVF after discovering Alice had a low antral follicle count at the age of 38 (pictured in January 2020)

Tough journey: The thespians’ daughters were conceived through IVF after discovering Alice had a low antral follicle count at the age of 38 (pictured in January 2020)

'I won the lottery': They welcomed their first child after one round of IVF, while their youngest girl arrived after eight rounds of treatment (pictured in May 2020)

‘I won the lottery’: They welcomed their first child after one round of IVF, while their youngest girl arrived after eight rounds of treatment (pictured in May 2020)

‘Finally, physically, mentally (not to mention financially) depleted, we decided sadly that cycle eight would be our last. Elsie Marigold Evans-Griffith was born on September 13, 2013. 

‘She has her dad’s big brown eyes but not his unfeasibly long tongue, thank goodness. I know how lucky I am. I won the lottery. 

‘I get to kiss goodnight to the two most precious human beings I’ve ever met. My goal now is to get the word out. Don’t wait until it’s too late.’

In 2017, Alice spoke about a ‘sinister’ encounter she had with disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, just hours after Ioan screen-tested for one of his movies in Cannes in 2002.

The Vampire Diaries star claimed the producer propositioned her and invited her to join him in a hotel bathroom.

Ioan shared his support for as he said in an interview with The Guardian last year: ‘I was very proud of Alice. Because women were not being believed.

‘She wanted to say, ‘No, this is definitely his modus operandi. This is how he behaves. I’ve witnessed it.’ So she wanted to present the case, help bolster the case.’

The Aberdare native is best known for his roles in Fantastic 4, W. and Horrible Bosses, while UCL alum Alice has starred in The Vampire Diaries, The Originals and Dangerous Parking. 

MailOnline has contacted Ioan and Alice’s representatives for further comment. 

'I was very proud': Ioan recently shared his support for Alice (pictured in January 2020), after she spoke about a 'sinister' encounter she had with disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein

‘I was very proud’: Ioan recently shared his support for Alice (pictured in January 2020), after she spoke about a ‘sinister’ encounter she had with disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein