IOAN Gruffudd’s estranged wife Alice Evans has requested full custody of their two children, according to reports.
The move comes just two days after Welsh hunk Ioan, 48, filed a restraining order against his ex, 53, over fears she will make false claims about him.
US outlet People has reported Alice has offered to allow Ioan visitation rights to Ella, 12, and Elsie, eight.
The actress, who wants to keep the girls at her LA home, is also seeking spousal support and wants Ioan to pay for her legal fees.
She has cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for their split.
The pair are thrashing out their divorce in the courts, and an explosive filing revealed abusive messages Alice sent to Ioan labelling his new girlfriend Bianca Wallace a “vixen”.
According to court documents, the Welsh actor wants his former flame to stay 100 yards away from him and Bianca.
Fantastic Four star Ioan is also asking the court to stop Alice from being allowed to contact the couple.
Ioan filed for divorce from Alice in May 2021 after 13 years of marriage and in a declaration said he told her months before that he was unhappy in their relationship.
The 48-year-old claims Alice threatened to “destroy me and my career”.
In his 113-page application for a ‘Domestic Violence Restraining Order’, he said: “Alice told me verbally multiple times that she would do to me what Amber Heard did to Johnny Depp.
“Alice threatened to tell people I had abused her and our daughters; she threatened to call the police on me if I did not comply with her demands.
“She threatened to tell people I am a drug addict and put me in prison; she threatened to write a fake diary that reflected an abused victim, and to have the diary published; and she threatened to destroy my mother.
“Alice told me she would win, and everyone would believe her over me.”
According to documents, Ioan claims Alice had already made “false and harassing” posts about him on social media as well as “hundreds” of abusive texts and emails.
The actor – who starred in ITV series Liar – also claims his ex turned on his new beau Bianca.
“Alice has made harassing, threatening and false social media posts about Bianca, and she has publicised private information about Bianca’s medical condition,” he said.
“It was extremely upsetting and stressful for me to continuously receive these types of hostile and aggressive text messages from Alice.
“On July 22, 2021, I blocked Alice’s phone number on my phone.”
Dozens of texts were included in the docs, with one allegedly sent by Alice saying: “Dude your film with Bianca is the most embarrassing thing I have EVER seen in Deadline. . . You have left a family you were providing for.
“You had SPECIFICALLY asked this loving family to wait for you while you worked abroad. We did.
“Then you met the most psychopathic succubus ever minnow to man, and fell for her.”
Alice has strongly rejected all claims made by Ioan in the restraining order application.
She said: “I believe that Petitioner is filing this request merely as a ploy to gain some sort of advantage over me in our divorce proceedings.
“As Petitioner has not seen our children for over 8 months, I believe he is trying to set some type of record that I am a horrible mother.”
It comes after Alice accused Ioan of cheating on her in a three-year affair with actress Bianca.
After Ioan shared a snap of them together on Instagram last year, Alice tweeted: “So it turns out that my husband, after two years of telling me I’m a bad person and I’m not exciting and he no longer wants to have sex with me and he just wants to be on set abroad . . . has been in a relationship for THREE years behind all our backs.”
