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- Alice Evans is requesting an increase in her child and spousal support from ex Ioan Gruffudd
- The actress, who shares daughters Ella and Elsie with ex Gruffudd, claims that she and her girls were evicted from their Los Angeles home
- She also claims they had to rely on donations from friends and a GoFundMe to get by
Alice Evans is requesting that the court increase her child and spousal support from ex Ioan Gruffudd.
According to court documents obtained by PEOPLE, the actress, 56, is asking the court to increase Gruffudd’s child and spousal support payments from the $4,500 a month he is currently paying.
Evans claims that she and her daughters Ella, 15, and Elsie, 11, were recently evicted from their Los Angeles home because she couldn’t pay the $6,500 in monthly rent. She also claims that she had to borrow money from her friends and set up a GoFundMe account to raise donations.
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The mom of two alleges that she “burned through” her savings in order to pay for legal fees and living expenses. She also claims that Gruffudd, 51, can afford more than he’s paying in support and is asking for more money.
In a response, Gruffudd alleges that Evans “purposely got herself evicted” and was “intentionally ceasing paying rent and instead taking the children on a vacation trip to Europe.”
Gruffudd, who recently announced that he’s expecting a baby with girlfriend Bianca Wallace, claims that Evans’ motive is to create a false public narrative to harm his reputation and get him to give her more money.
He goes on to claim that he’s received “dozens of stressed messages from our minor children in which they have parroted Alice’s false and manufactured claims of becoming homeless in the immediate future,” which have left him “mortified.”
Reps for Evans and Gruffudd did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Back in October, a court ordered Gruffudd to pay $3,000 per month in child support for Ella and Elsie, whom Evans has full custody of. In addition to the child support, Gruffudd was to pay $1,500 in spousal support to Evans every month, which started in September.
At the time, the court also ordered Evans to “make a reasonable good-faith effort to become self- supporting.”
Additionally, “Failure to make these efforts could provide for a basis for lowering the amount of spousal support or even terminate spousal support altogether,” the documents stated. Evans will have half the length of their previous marriage to prove she’s practicing “reasonable good-faith efforts.”
Evans filed for financial support from Gruffudd back in July 2024, when documents obtained by PEOPLE revealed the actress claimed she was in “dire” need following their custody agreement that was settled two months prior. She added at the time that she would “not be able to survive” without financial support from Gruffudd.