As a former family law attorney and a continual advocate for DV awareness, etc. it’s great to see you covering this. I’ve seen how male victims get tossed aside and just be treated horribly. The DV community doesn’t do enough for them or really acknowledge them. I’m looking forward to this series.
agree Yet will add the system treats both sexes horrible when they report. Tossed aside, treated horribly. Men they shame in a different way than they shame women. So both get screwed again when they report.
This is the first time I'm hearing of this case, so thank you for covering this. I had an ex that was extremely abusive, staying up for days on Adderall, and when I left her (I stayed longer than I should cause I felt so bad for her then 8 year old daughter who clung to me). I was served a protection order although I was the one being stalked & harassed. I took it to court and brought all the text messages, where I only answered with one word, and the judge immediately tossed out the case. What I found amazing was if I didn't go to court that order would have went thru and would have been on record for any future employer to see. I had to take a day off work and print out over 50 pages of texts I somehow converted to my mother's computer, I'm not a tech guy so that took days. It was the worst situation I ever been in in my life with a woman. Thankfully God blessed me years later with my now wife, but it was an experience I will never forget.
How sad, but thank God you're in a better place now. Like Kevin, I'm very concerned for that woman with any child in her custody! So scary!! I listened to a stream last night where a single dad (the mom just bailed on be & her 3-year-old daughter) went from the kettle to the fire. He found a really good job, was able to buy a nearby house and hire the next door neighbor (the bosses wife) to babysit BUT after changing her story 7 times (sound familiar?) She was FINALLY charged with felony murder for...omg is awful, hitting this 3 yr old "upper cut with her fist knocking the child out!!" She never regained consciousness & died 9 days later!! I can't begin to fathom. Honestly, I've been fortunate when I hear some of these stories. I had one terrible sitter I fired quickly & early on with my first, I listened to my BABY, who let me know something wasn't right at that sitter! I thought she'd be great as she was a foster parent, but come to find out, she allowed the older children to "care for" my then 3 mo old. When I left the day the woman made fun of my daughter for crying upon seeing her, requested my belongings back (I left this items there during the week as it was too much to transport playpen - VERY EXPENSIVE from France my bosses have me, stroller, et al., I learned the playpen was destroyed where some older child tore out the side to get in with my daughter while she napped & do God knows what. Knowing what I now know, I should have turned that woman in to DHS and had her license as a foster care employee revoked. She was absolutely a nightmare! The other one later on did not hurt my children but she was more of a negligent sitter as opposed to an abusive one. I'll not go into detail because it's a long story and unlikely pales in comparison to what you've seen but it's just scary! We take for granted that the people we meet and deal with are as mentally competent and reliable as we are when in fact they're nowhere close!! Both those women needed mental help! Sadly, the 2nd one did what she did because she learned she was pregnant & treated it like she had become a porcelain doll who couldn't be bothered with my kids!
So glad you are covering this. I initially felt sorry for Alice. It looked like she had been blindsided when her husband left her for another woman. The reality appears to have been very different: her own unhinged behaviour has been her undoing. The vicious spite she has demonstrated and the obvious attempts to twist subsequent issues shows a very manipulative character. They were not wealthy in comparison to most Hollywood couples. Lived in Brentwood in a modest house that she refuses to sell. She hasn’t worked in years even though there was a full time nanny. She has now done her career irreparable harm as id imagine nobody will touch her with a barge pole.
I'm glad someone is paying attention to this. Alice Evans has been completely unravelling for quite a while now. I cannot imagine what Ioan suffered though.
As a female DV survivor, it is unacceptable that any parent should use their children to be pawns in the relationship. I was fortunate not to have a child with my ex-husband. So when I finally left, it was only myself to fend for. It would have been incredibly difficult if we had children. Although, he had taken that from me also through his abuse. I truly pray that he can find some legal help to resolve the issue of the children and get out of this insane situation!🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖
That’s really sad… a man hating element? Why am I not surprised… I wonder when Lundy Bancroft is going to write his next best seller, “Why Does She Do That?” I’m waiting…
UA-camr Prim Reaper is in Canada and works with a male DV organization. Her content shows there is space in a few places for helping heal DV against men.
Snoopy, when I was going through this, my mom had passed a few months before and I had a child who was only a few months old. While my city did have a group for DV survivors, it was made up of women and I mostly felt like the last thing they would really need is some male coming into their safe space. Perhaps I was just making a false assumption, but I wouldn’t want for that. I am not sure if there is a feeling of mocking or not. We did see some of that during the JD trial particularly from “journalists” during and after. But I wouldn’t want to assume that from survivors themselves
I'm very glad that Alice's behaviour and actions are now receiving more scrutiny. The very public way she handled him leaving the marriage and the way she seemed to have a vendetta against both him and his new partner was disturbing. It seemed at the time he left the marriage like she was using their children as a weapon against him, and as a child who grew up with a pair of personality disordered parents, her behaviour was very triggering to me, and hard to escape in the UK at the time, because she was popping up everywhere. Lots and lots of red flags. Ioan, on the other hand, was dignified and silent throughout. Very much like Johnny Depp has always been. I hope he's now able to get some justice. I can imagine that being in a relationship with her for the amount of time he was was very soul destroying.
He seems to have a good legal team behind him, making professional requests of the court while Alice takes all the rope she wants and hangs herself while he remains silent and dignified. I hope the justice system comes through for him and I hope those kids are getting the therapy that he has petitioned the court for them to receive. Their mother is a real danger to their mental health.
Thank you for covering this. Been a Ioan fan since Hornblower and was sad to see all of what has been revealed. Looking forward to your coverage of this - your series' are so well done!
Ioan must be going through absolute hell. I'm glad he has a supportive girlfriend by his side, but even so, it must be incredibly hard on him. I hope he knows there are many, MANY, who see what's going on here and he has our best wishes.
I am so glad you are looking into this new case. I have been interested in this relationship and the two people involved for a number of years. It seems that Ioan Gruffudd is going to have one hell of a time getting away from, getting a divorce, from Alice Evans. In fact, I remember reading that she told him she would pull an Amber Heard on him. She has been vindictive and scary on Twitter and threatens Ioan with his children; not allowing him to see them and all the dirty behaviors that some women pull to get even with a man when they no longer want to be with them. I have had the feeling that there may have been some IPV in their relationship, meaning Alice is the perpetrator. Anyway, thank you for looking into this.
I adore Ioan Gruffudd!!!!! It's so good for him finally fighting back. Bless him for how much he has endured.. He's simply brilliant! Thank you Andrea for covering this.
Thank you for covering this. I knew about this case two years ago. I felt so bad for him in that it's obvious Alice was abusive to him and continues to harass and abuse him.
I find it utterly ridiculous that people in this day and age that people think men can't be abused. I had a female friend when I was younger who was and still is an absolute psychopath. I had seen her attack her boyfriend violently every time she was drunk and he just took it. Any time I saw these alterations I never knew what to do I was so young at the time. They did eventually break up but she would not let him move on. She stalked and harassed him and his new girlfriend and she did so gleefully. I hated being her friend but I was scared of her and thought it better to keep quiet. The things this girl would do were so shocking. Years later after she moved and I didnt have to see her anymore I started telling people the things she had done one of which was smashing a brick into someone's face. Not ones person believed me, why? because men can't be abused and two she was an extremely beautiful blonde and petite. Model good looks which made her so narcissistic and yet somehow her looks meant she wasn't an Insane psycho and she used this to her benefit. I wish people would educate themselves on narcissistic abuse and what it looks like. She has children now I heard and I dread to think what growing up with her as a mother will do to them. I just hope she's changed but I doubt it because people rarely do.
I’m so glad you’re bringing attention to the damage women can do, not only to their exes but to their own kids because of personality disorders. Imagine if Johnny Depp & Amber Heard had kids in common, well I guess this new case will highlight what many men go through.
It is so many who take that easy way to judge,but this is not about how a woman are abusive compere to how a man are abusive! or react in a ugly divorce.This is about abusive or (disturbed) human beings! When a brake up happened ,it is very little truth we really know! In my experience (it is a lot) The reality could be the completely opposite than told from one of the ex partners. Using their children in the battle are very mean,so that tell a lot about the parents personality. So that is very revealing! and sad. Both men and woman could be a mess in this situation and act like their lost their mind -Both can be a She devil,like in the movie "She Devil" Lovesickness actually make some insane for a period,like being in love could make people in a way insane too ;) This is not a evidence they must have a personality disorder,or be an evil person. This could only be for a very difficult time in their life,and after a while they will be them selves again both men & woman. Having this in our mind please. Just read Helly Poppys comment under here! A war between woman & Men is not what the world need! It has to stop now! I must add: I have great respect for Andrea as a lawyer,and her wise speeches. But the genuin expert on this issues,are the real victims and people really been in this situations themselves. What we really need is a war against genuin Narcsisisst/Sociopaths/Psycopaths! Expose them in all levels in the society now!
I think what many of the commenters here don't realise is what's going down in real time on Twitter after Andrea posted this video link to her followers. Alice immediately jumped in and has been responding and commenting directly to tweets - denying everything that is alleged in court papers, saying Ioan is lying and that she will happily swear under oath blah blah blah, playing the doting mother who is worried how all this will affect her kids. Effectively breaking her TRO AGAIN by discussing Ioan on SM - to a lawyer no less who is covering her case - how Meta (and dumb) is that? The insanity is real. Hopefully Andrea will calmly point out how Alice has had multiple opportunities in a court of law to state her case 'under oath' and failed to do so. Hence the criminal charges. That she is using her kids again as ammo to stop Andrea from simply covering a situation entirely driven and escalated by Alice alone shows how depraved she is. She's never once cared about her kids and how her behaviour affects them. But suddenly she's Mary Poppins, is 'in a happy place' and meany old Andrea is going to ruin her life. No Alice, that's all on you. The court papers provide actual proof, not hearsay, of Alice's endless streams of publicly documented tweets and posts on IG about Ioan and Bianca - genuinely nutty and willingly spewing every aspect of her Divorce and private life - and that of her children - out into the public domain for any nutsack to latch onto. Ioan has always keeps resolutely silent, despite horrific goading by Alice in public on SM. This is irrefutable cold, hard proof and Alice seems to think if she deletes stuff, it didn't happen and won't be used in court. It's either rampant narcissism and arrogance, or serious mental illness, but her delusion game is strong. Edit: It appears Alice has closed her Twitter account. Again. Probably to delete all her latest nonsense. Except there are people out there who take screenshots and keep all the receipts. Give it till Andrea uploads the next video and she'll pop right back up again....
She might have deleted her Twitter (she'll soon be back as one of her aggressive supporters has told her followers) so her past tweets cannot be searched right now. As in the past, Alice has tweeted a lot in support of Johnny Depp and against Amber Heard (even claiming to be like a wronged Depp and comparing Ioan to Heard) and right now her aggressive (allegedly a lawyer?) fan is also a big Amber Heard fan is trying to get all the Amber Heard supporters to support Alice as well (against Andrea whom they disparagingly call a "Depphead") and try to make a case that Alice has always supported Amber Heard and therefore should be supported by Amber supporters who would help her to attack Andrea. (It sounds completely ridiculous. But their tweets are real. Even teenagers have more sense than these cyberbullies). I look forward to Andrea analysing and dissecting Alice's case and presenting it to us in her usual level-headed and poised manner. Just worried about the online abuse she will get from Alice directly, through her countless sock accounts, and by proxy.
@@PaleTyche The Wayback Machine is everyone's friend. Except Alice LOL. Yes she has some absolutely batshit crazy followers who swear black is white in her 'defence' despite literally mountains of documented evidence to the contrary available for all to see. They usually have agendas of their own or love living vicariously through Alice's drama as it gives them purpose and makes a change from talking to their cats. It's scary how myopic they are in their blind support of her and allow themselves to be whipped up to bully and harass on her behalf. Extremely infantile and extremely unhinged. Like Alice (in my opinion at least). Thankfully the Family and Criminal Courts in L.A don't operate via Alice's fantasy Court of Social Media. They do real world shit and it's hitting the fan for her in a very serious and very big way. Getting combative on Twitter and mentioning her ex (who she's legally bound NOT to mention thanks to a court issued RO) with actual lawyers and their followers - after failing to show for two court dates (where she had ample opportunities to state her case/defence under oath but chose not to) and now facing imminent criminal proceedings along with a custody hearing - has got to be one of the dumbest and most destructive things she's done (lately). It proves she doesn't give a shit about her kids and only about getting the last word and feeding off the attention. It all could've been so different...
I’ve been a fan of Ioan’s since Horatio Hornblower. Always knew Alice was bad, just not THIS bad. It’s been so sad to watch. Thank you SO much, Andrea, for giving visibility to this.
I am glad you are covering this. I love the way you present and educate us on the law. I remember this case coming out last year. Looking forward to more.
Thank you Andrea. Poor Ioan and the kids. My two boys watched all the Hornblower episodes so I recognised him but not her. I'm looking forward to your analysis of the legal situation.
So glad you've covered this one. I remember being shocked at it as I hadn't heard rumblings about it and they'd been together for a while. We need to show that anyone can be subjected to abuse
Andrea, thank you so much for discovering this DV case and delving into it for us! I was shocked when Ioan walked away from his marriage, it seemed sudden and for no reason, at least to me at the time. I never saw any red flags b3cause I wasn’t looking for any, but now that I think about it, I did see one! I used to follow them on IG and enjoyed the funny videos, but one day, Ioan got excited and very loud, watching Wales win a football match on TV, when his elder daughter began to cry. Alice reprimanded Ioan, “You know how scared she gets when you start yelling!” Ioan immediately hugged his daughter and apologised. I thought it was strange but never understood why she was like that. Now it makes sense!
She's known to post pictures against his will as well, so she most likely posted the humiliating video without his consent -- which is a red flag in itself.
Thank you for covering this. As someone who has been a DV survivor and who has a child and co parents with that same person (and sadly but for my own reasons I am still co-habitating with) I am always interested in hearing about the legal side. From my own experience I know that it’s hard as a male. In my experience my ex partner confessed to the abuse and was charged but they let her please down to breaking the restraining order (she called me from jail 17 times to bail her out and then had a bail bondsman call me to bail her out). In time I took her back because I believed she might have just been going through post pardum depression. I’ve had a unique experience to see that someone who has charges of DV even thought they only get charged with the lessor charge of breaking a restraining order, have their professional lives impacted. But I’ve also seen and experienced how that can change that person’s perspective (I’ve heard a few times now “if I’m going to be charged I might as well make it worth it”, though it’s only been a threat and nothing violent like that has happened to me personally, as I try and defuse situations and or leave). But I have also seen how hard it is to even report some situations. In my own experience it might not be personal violence. It can be withholding the child hand off, and when you try and report to the police / sheriff, they tell you to take it up with the family court. Of course family court will only take it up if you have some sort of documentation. And for every time that happens it just emboldens / empowers the other person to do it again. Now, factor that into the cost and time it would take to do court and add in the chances that your child will be affected or what might happen when not in your custody, and sometimes it just becomes easier to stay and try and keep things calm. Even at the high cost it can claim (both monetarily and in peace of mind at times). Anyways probably oversharing but I just mean to say, seeing someone, anyone, speaking to it is encouraging. I know personally even if I have felt like sharing I often hear people just say “report it or go to court” as if they fully understand what that process is like for a man. So really, I appreciate someone even speaking to this. ❤
@James B I understand your frustration & hesitancy to call authorities &/or report. If nothing else document if & when there is any abuse that way you have a record, just in case. Hopefully, family court will soon catch up to the fact that women can be the perpetrator of abuse, as well as recognizing the importance of maintaining the relationship between a father & any children. Ensuring there is no parental alienation & if there is, there needs to be consequences. Wishing you all the best.
Thanks, I have and I do. I confess that I am not always good at documenting all the days I take my daughter to school and pick her up but then the school does. And I’ve been more diligent about documenting other things. A few months back my ex took my phone while I was documenting and wouldn’t give it back. Thankfully I have another phone for work and the two are connected via find my phone, so I was able to find it later and get it back. But primarily I just leave things alone when I can and try to ensure that things stay calm. I doubt I will need to go to court unless I decide to challenge custody arrangement which is Saturday to Tues afternoon (my days) and Tues afternoon to Saturday morning (her days). Which is why I let my ex stay with me if I want to have my daughter in school in my town versus where her grandma lives (my ex’s mom lives about 75 miles away). Which means I almost always pay for everything, and try to stay outnumber her way when she is feeling depressed or frustrated ect. But, if you’re a parent you know that you’d almost do anything to be able to have your children around all the time and know they are primarily in a good place that you have some semblance of contributing to. So sacrifices are ok at this point, especially given the family law system. I’m actually lucky. I know of others who have had their ex’s claim sexual abuse or DV and end up with full custody as well as child support ect and they never get time with their kids. Or others who have spent countless trips to court and tens of thousands of dollars just to be able to have some kind of joint custody. The real victims in those scenarios always seems to me to be the children. :/
I am glad you are covering this as many men are abused just as much as women are! In my case with my ex husband, it was mental abuse against me and physical on his part and finaly after month s of counceling, total abandondment by him. After a few years I forgave him and chose to let him go on his own and live his own life and I live mine in peace and we did share our children respectfully. But this case is just shocking for me to hear as a lot reported about this divorce was mostly bad press about Ioan! I am so glad Ioan is getting his day in court but also shocked that Alice would be that bad twords him and use t hier girls against him, and I feel especially bad for the two girls!!!
This is always a sad situation. This is why my father would not divorce my mother. He endured life with my mother much too long. He was terrified that she would harm me worse, lose his job if she were to make allegations, and never be employable due to false allegations. Living in a small town has it's benefits and it's drawbacks.
I have been following this for a while. Huge fan of Ioan Griffith. I have read some of the comments his ex has written. Her vitriol and escalating accusations are completely suspect. Thank you for covering this.
Thank you for covering this. I’m Virginia we weren’t even allowed to say the words parental alienation. The court system was terrible in helping the child involved. There just isn’t enough insight and/or education within the court system.
Great job Andrea! This is something I certainly will be following with you . Any situation like this is always much more sad due to children being involved. I do agree totally with you that Johhny Depp had more physical resources than the average man, but as a human, that was being abused and emotionally controlled, I believe we all are on the same level. He could physically remove himself from the abuse at times but not emotionally.
Thank you for sharing another important case with us. JD was not the only man in an abusive relationship. Family law is tough. Administration abuse is a real thing.
As someone that got caught up in the system as the abused, yet portrayed as the abuser, I'm very interested in this series. Despite the many years ago (33+) and the strong relationship I've had with my children for 27+ years now, my heart will probably bleed empathy for the children in this case. Thank you for covering such a misunderstood (imho) topic and I trust your legal analysis as well as your humility in every video I've watched (all of them) along with precise and careful language...💜
My daughter had 6 years of her physically abusive ex continuing with verbal & emotional abuse after she left him. The 4 kids were horribly impacted by his tactics. He & his new g’friend & the g’friends best friend, concocted a story of lies & my daughter got arrested, facing 20yrs in jail. Thanks to CCTV & the ‘three amigos’ each telling a different lie, the case against my daughters was dropped by the state prosecutor (before it got to court) because of lack of evidence…..because of course, she didn’t do what she was accused of. Now she’s happily single, the kids refuse to have anything to do with their father (3 are over 18yrs of age). Awful time but everyone is healing…..
Johnny (and his kids) were also fortunate in that his kids weren’t Amber’s and could get out of the house. I feel worst for the kids. They are stuck in a horrible situation. I hope that they get the support they need to heal from this. I hadn’t heard about this situation but will definitely be watching future updates!!
I hadn’t heard of this case. Thank you for covering this. I am here for more conversation towards male victims of dv getting the recognition and vindication they deserve. I hope more conversation leads to more support and resources for male victims of dv.
This is the first i heard of this case. I can say he was excellent in the hornblower series, one of the best mini series i have binged. Thanks for digging into this
My family loved the Hornblower series and have rewatched several times. I saw mention of this situation a year or so ago and was so saddened by it. Thank you so much for your time and effort in bringing your excellent analysis to this case - really looking forward to it.
This case definitely has me curious! I loved the movie that introduced them and was sad to hear that things had gone so sideways, but then it flew off the rails entirely & started sounding awfullllly familiar with things that have been discussed in the last year. How you manage to break that all down to short videos without it feeling like there are a gazillion gaps I will never know but it is an artform you excel at! Looking forward to your continuing deep dive on this one!
For me he is mostly know from fantastic for from 2005 and the tv-show of Forever. He seems to be a really good actor always very likeable. If you want a good tv-show with only 22 episodes Forever is for you. ;) Thanks for making a video about it. It is a really bad situation he seems to be in and please continue to inform us about those things. It is really helpful. Thank you.
I'm glad you covered this although I feel sorry for you as I can only imagine the trolling/abuse you're about to receive. I used to be a fan of them both in my teens...well until she nuked his fansite but that's another story entirely 😭 I've been watching over this and sadly she hasn't changed one bit in nearly 16 years.
Please, oh please, oh please tell me he has primary physical custody of those two girls! I should say something here about Evans. In my spare time I administer to fansites. Fansites are those things one created on an actor such as Gruffudd. There was one a while back after he did "Fantastic Four" and the sequel "The Silver Surfer." The admins of the site were contacted by Gruffudd, himself, and was offered exclusive details and pictures and his contribution to the forum included with the site. Evans signed up and began posting things to the fans, but then ironically Evans' behaviour sort of came out at that point. It was believed at the time her conduct had to do with her disagreeing and or pushing up against the owners of the site. One of the owners of the site pushed back against Evans and called her out on her abusive behaviour. Evans shut the site down by contacting the ICANN registry and had the domain pulled. We all thought at the time it was the admins. Looks like it was her all along. Thanks for covering this Andrea. Could you please keep us posted?
@@aburkhartlaw And if you look at the court documents he filed on January 31, 2023 (Responsive Declaration to Request for Order), Alice keeps manipulating their daughters, so they are afraid to meet him or she attempts to be present at their meetings demanding her daughters to put her on speakerphone during their visits with their dad or claims that the girls are ill and cannot attend or claims that they are out of town with friends (when in reality this was not true) and so on. The result is that he can hardly see them at all. A full-blown PA is happening. It is absolutely heartbreaking.
I'm so glad Andrea is researching this case, I've been aware of it from the outset due to living here in the UK and it being played out in the tabloids/social media. Having worked in a solicitors (family law), it's egregious how men are treated - I couldn't help but overhear throw-away comments and conversations between solicitors who were so contemptuous of men in general and how confident they were at tying them up legally for a long time to the point they'd would give up attempting to gain access to their children, let alone joint or sole custody. That was back in the early 2000s, I hope things have changed considerably since then.
Thank you so much for lending your expertise to this story. I'd read this story several years back, although it wasn't given much media coverage. Ioan has really had a rough time. I feel for him. Obviously I feel for victims of DV as well but using accusations as weapons in family court is unfortunately more common that most people like to admit. Johnny Depp is a rich, handsome and famous one percenter and even he is still being slammed on social media, having various groups write Amicus briefs and open letters, etc. If he didn't have the finances to pay for years of lawyers I think Depp would still be considered an abuser. Heck some "people" still blame him. I digress. Bottom line he did clear his name in court. However I honestly doubt his career will fully recover mainly because of AH supporters who have spent the last 8 or 9 months poisoning the well and distorting the verdict.
His art & music his "true" ❤️ will save & sustain him. But hoping his does some Indy films while Disney, Warner Bros & others crumble out of existence. They chose "their" opinions over fans & now are paying the price. 😄
@@AuntClara0911 i agree. Depp is a very talented person. Musician, painter, great actor. Even if his career doesn't fully recover i think he'll be ok. If he never did another movie he still has a nice body of work and he will always have fans that appreciate his work.
Using your children as pawns is unacceptable in any situation. Men are more often than not, overlooked in situations such as these & I am glad you are highlighting this case. Looking forward to your views & knowledge on this, as I do in all that you cover 😊
It’s good that this case is more like the average female perpetrated DV case. Shedding light on rights of parents/children, and parental alienation is needed imo. Awareness is important to attempt to stop the cycle of abuse. Thanks.
This is a sad situation for Ione, but more so for their children. Children deserve a childhood they don't have to recover from. Ty Andrea! Looking forward to more videos about this case.
He also appeared as the only officer to return with a lifeboat in Titanic, and starred alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar in a short lived series called Ringer in the mid 2000s.
Andrea, I'm glad your bringing this to light. Hopefully this will bring more awareness to domestic violence , children being used as pawns!! And cause them harm mentality
So glad you are covering this! I have been compiling since August 2022 to see how it would develop and its been wild! It's interesting as this case has children involved and so many DV cases are like this. Ioann's receipts to rebut Alice's claims is very strong and Alice really is horrible to actually do all this! I think she even missed hearings.
Re: @12:35 I appreciate you differentiating between it being rare that women *commit* DV and it being rare that women *face charges* as a result of committing DV. Female-perpetrated DV is sadly no longer a rare occurrence at all.
So glad your covering this. I'd never heard of but after Depp trial & seeing actual book "How to Destroy a Man" I've been seriously worried. Glad MM has gone as it has Maybe people will pay attention I 🙏. Actually I rather surprised that with how Sue happy AH is she hasn't sued Me too or ACLU for telling & giving her false hope on winning! I SO wish she would.
imagine what the daughters have to hear Alice Evans spew about their father if she is so nasty as to rant and rage in texts, she is causing such ruination and in the end i think her daughters will choose to be estranged from her. She has demonstrated her malignant desire for control so clearly that she'll end up completely alone,hope it doesnt come to that and she just accepts its time to draw a line and move on and give up the fallacy that the world works according to her moods.
I really hope you make more videos on this case. She is AH 2.0 through and through and there’s not enough on the internet about this. She is an abusive female narcissist! Please do more videos!!
He's well knowed,he did 2 of The Fantastic 4 initial movies,he was mr fantastic,with Chris Evans,Jéssica alba,Michael chiklis,102 dalmatians,San Andreas with dwanye "the rock" johnson and he enter in a lot of TV series!!!!! He was always super Nice,i never thought that she was that type of person that would threatned people to get her way!!!!!
People are the worst when it comes to relationships ending. Especially with kids. You would think that knowing they will be bound together forever would make people make an effort to amicable…in reality it leads to the opposite.
Of course it's heartbreaking to be left for whatever reason, but I think that if you can come to an arrangement that is best for the wellbeing of your children, you can be dignified around your kids and estranged partner and vent your hurt and anger elsewhere. Easier said than done I realise.
From a child of severe domestic abuse from my father to mother but emotional from her to knowing a man who looked so happy and finding out he was being battered everyday by his wife this is so welcomed.
interesting case. but sorry to know that Ioan is going through this. that alice said she would do an 'amber heard' on him - don't know if you could have a bigger red flag.
Appreciate you checking the way to say his name! Ioan's probably better known for the two Fantastic Four films -- not great, though better than the more recent one.
Sounds like this guy needs #CamilleVasquez & BenChew from #JOHNNYDEPP's case. Wtf is wrong with these type of women abusers. Smfh. Don't know who the guy or chick is bcuz I am not a movie person but you are going to see more & more GUYS come out & let ppl know that chicks are so abusive & very narcissistic/manipulative/controlling. IF it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be. So many times in relationships there is cheating/adulterous behavior when they step outside the relationship. The s*x ring we all found out about lately a couple of people (cough-cough) were conducting early on. Hmm. Smh. Then their personality/ mannerisms flips when all the cheating behind their partner or significant other by wanting to look one way for someone when it wasn't them to do so before then. Seen it so many times, Gold Diggers, chicks wanting the Me, Me, Me attention. Oh F'ing LORD HELP US if that's how some chicks act. Imho they really need to GROW UP! It makes them look like ridiculousness. Thank you Andrea, it's great to see you! Have a beautiful Spring & Easter season! 😊✌
I remember the "do an Amber Heard" article. In the heat of the JD and nameless one case, all I had the energy to do was think "Oh no, there´s another one..." Looking forward to getting the details from you.
This is so interesting. I look forward to learning about the legal process and strategies that you explain so well in laymen terms. I’m sad when I think about how children get involved in the dispute between parents. Thanks so much for your interesting videos.
He's probably better known for playing Reed Richards in Fantastic 4 and Alice played the Mikalsons Mother in The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. It's so messy their story.
Parental alienation is very real. It’s one of the cruelest and most evil, insidious tactics that unbalanced and angry parents use. It should be legally punishable in my opinion, because healthy relationships between BOTH parents and their kids is paramount to the development of healthy and well children and will affect the adults they become.
I've been a fan of Ioan since I watched Hornblower (borrowed my friends DVDs) in about 2004, then he was playing Mr Fantastic in the 2005 Fantastic 4 movie (cheesy as hell but still better than the 2015 reboot aka Fan4stic) so I've said from the get go that I found it hard to believe that he'd be like he was described over the last few years
Yeah some of the stuff that she was saying, was just crass. If you want to be believed (if you are innocent), you don't start spouting that stuff. Plus don't start dragging your kids into it. It's between the two of you.
I know one short meeting is not enough to gauge someone, but I met Ioan Gruffudd briefly several years ago. He was so quiet and polite. Based on that minimal information, I can definitely see how someone like her would take advantage of him. To know that he's been going through this for a long time is heartbreaking.
In UK have seen cases of women found guilty of coercive control. Worst case was horrific victim was starved had boiling water poured on him!! Perpetrator was found guilty of GBH & got 7 years. First woman to be given this kind of sentence, but obviously women are capable of vile behaviour too.
As a former family law attorney and a continual advocate for DV awareness, etc. it’s great to see you covering this. I’ve seen how male victims get tossed aside and just be treated horribly. The DV community doesn’t do enough for them or really acknowledge them. I’m looking forward to this series.
agree Yet will add the system treats both sexes horrible when they report. Tossed aside, treated horribly. Men they shame in a different way than they shame women. So both get screwed again when they report.
This is the first time I'm hearing of this case, so thank you for covering this. I had an ex that was extremely abusive, staying up for days on Adderall, and when I left her (I stayed longer than I should cause I felt so bad for her then 8 year old daughter who clung to me). I was served a protection order although I was the one being stalked & harassed. I took it to court and brought all the text messages, where I only answered with one word, and the judge immediately tossed out the case. What I found amazing was if I didn't go to court that order would have went thru and would have been on record for any future employer to see. I had to take a day off work and print out over 50 pages of texts I somehow converted to my mother's computer, I'm not a tech guy so that took days. It was the worst situation I ever been in in my life with a woman. Thankfully God blessed me years later with my now wife, but it was an experience I will never forget.
May God help that woman's daughter!
How sad, but thank God you're in a better place now. Like Kevin, I'm very concerned for that woman with any child in her custody! So scary!! I listened to a stream last night where a single dad (the mom just bailed on be & her 3-year-old daughter) went from the kettle to the fire. He found a really good job, was able to buy a nearby house and hire the next door neighbor (the bosses wife) to babysit BUT after changing her story 7 times (sound familiar?) She was FINALLY charged with felony murder for...omg is awful, hitting this 3 yr old "upper cut with her fist knocking the child out!!" She never regained consciousness & died 9 days later!! I can't begin to fathom. Honestly, I've been fortunate when I hear some of these stories. I had one terrible sitter I fired quickly & early on with my first, I listened to my BABY, who let me know something wasn't right at that sitter! I thought she'd be great as she was a foster parent, but come to find out, she allowed the older children to "care for" my then 3 mo old. When I left the day the woman made fun of my daughter for crying upon seeing her, requested my belongings back (I left this items there during the week as it was too much to transport playpen - VERY EXPENSIVE from France my bosses have me, stroller, et al., I learned the playpen was destroyed where some older child tore out the side to get in with my daughter while she napped & do God knows what. Knowing what I now know, I should have turned that woman in to DHS and had her license as a foster care employee revoked. She was absolutely a nightmare! The other one later on did not hurt my children but she was more of a negligent sitter as opposed to an abusive one. I'll not go into detail because it's a long story and unlikely pales in comparison to what you've seen but it's just scary! We take for granted that the people we meet and deal with are as mentally competent and reliable as we are when in fact they're nowhere close!! Both those women needed mental help! Sadly, the 2nd one did what she did because she learned she was pregnant & treated it like she had become a porcelain doll who couldn't be bothered with my kids!
I hope her daughter got out also. Poor thing. You had choices, she has none.
Watched Alice Evans go twitter crazy and really felt for Ioan when it happened. She was off the wall.
So glad you are covering this. I initially felt sorry for Alice. It looked like she had been blindsided when her husband left her for another woman. The reality appears to have been very different: her own unhinged behaviour has been her undoing. The vicious spite she has demonstrated and the obvious attempts to twist subsequent issues shows a very manipulative character. They were not wealthy in comparison to most Hollywood couples. Lived in Brentwood in a modest house that she refuses to sell. She hasn’t worked in years even though there was a full time nanny. She has now done her career irreparable harm as id imagine nobody will touch her with a barge pole.
I'm glad someone is paying attention to this. Alice Evans has been completely unravelling for quite a while now. I cannot imagine what Ioan suffered though.
She did an interview with a publication in Ireland and had a meltdown during the interview. That sort of thing doesn't happen overnight.
@@x3csP I suggest you do a bit of reading because Evans' behavior is in no way explainable as merely an inability to cope with the way she was dumped.
@@rjmunster9600 Cool.
I see a woman who has been cheated on and dumped by a husband who ignored his marriage vows.
@@jannieannie5140 That's because you haven't been paying attention.
As a female DV survivor, it is unacceptable that any parent should use their children to be pawns in the relationship. I was fortunate not to have a child with my ex-husband. So when I finally left, it was only myself to fend for. It would have been incredibly difficult if we had children. Although, he had taken that from me also through his abuse. I truly pray that he can find some legal help to resolve the issue of the children and get out of this insane situation!🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖
I have volunteered for a domestic violence org and there is a man hating element there. So, this prospective is fascinating. Thank you, Andrea!
Always good to get another perspective 😉
That’s really sad… a man hating element? Why am I not surprised… I wonder when Lundy Bancroft is going to write his next best seller, “Why Does She Do That?” I’m waiting…
That's fairly common sadly, and also very common for them to mock male DV victims.
UA-camr Prim Reaper is in Canada and works with a male DV organization. Her content shows there is space in a few places for helping heal DV against men.
Snoopy, when I was going through this, my mom had passed a few months before and I had a child who was only a few months old. While my city did have a group for DV survivors, it was made up of women and I mostly felt like the last thing they would really need is some male coming into their safe space. Perhaps I was just making a false assumption, but I wouldn’t want for that.
I am not sure if there is a feeling of mocking or not. We did see some of that during the JD trial particularly from “journalists” during and after. But I wouldn’t want to assume that from survivors themselves
I'm very glad that Alice's behaviour and actions are now receiving more scrutiny. The very public way she handled him leaving the marriage and the way she seemed to have a vendetta against both him and his new partner was disturbing. It seemed at the time he left the marriage like she was using their children as a weapon against him, and as a child who grew up with a pair of personality disordered parents, her behaviour was very triggering to me, and hard to escape in the UK at the time, because she was popping up everywhere. Lots and lots of red flags. Ioan, on the other hand, was dignified and silent throughout. Very much like Johnny Depp has always been. I hope he's now able to get some justice. I can imagine that being in a relationship with her for the amount of time he was was very soul destroying.
He seems to have a good legal team behind him, making professional requests of the court while Alice takes all the rope she wants and hangs herself while he remains silent and dignified. I hope the justice system comes through for him and I hope those kids are getting the therapy that he has petitioned the court for them to receive. Their mother is a real danger to their mental health.
It must be very disturbing to discover as Ioan did that you’re married to someone who is seriously unhinged.
Thank you for covering this. Been a Ioan fan since Hornblower and was sad to see all of what has been revealed. Looking forward to your coverage of this - your series' are so well done!
@@rjmunster9600 not sure I understand what you're saying... picked for what?
The few things JD was lucky about is that he did not have children with Amber…
Ioan must be going through absolute hell. I'm glad he has a supportive girlfriend by his side, but even so, it must be incredibly hard on him. I hope he knows there are many, MANY, who see what's going on here and he has our best wishes.
I am so glad you are looking into this new case. I have been interested in this relationship and the two people involved for a number of years. It seems that Ioan Gruffudd is going to have one hell of a time getting away from, getting a divorce, from Alice Evans. In fact, I remember reading that she told him she would pull an Amber Heard on him. She has been vindictive and scary on Twitter and threatens Ioan with his children; not allowing him to see them and all the dirty behaviors that some women pull to get even with a man when they no longer want to be with them. I have had the feeling that there may have been some IPV in their relationship, meaning Alice is the perpetrator. Anyway, thank you for looking into this.
That is reed from fantastic four!
@@x3csP No one deserves to be abused. Certainly, the children don't deserve to be abused. Parental alienation is child abuse.
I thought her behaviour was a red flag. I accept you're upset and feel humiliated but she made herself look really bad, it was scary behaviour.
Jesus that is horrendous!!!!
@@x3csP jeez is that you Alice😂
I adore Ioan Gruffudd!!!!! It's so good for him finally fighting back. Bless him for how much he has endured.. He's simply brilliant! Thank you Andrea for covering this.
Thank you for covering this. I knew about this case two years ago. I felt so bad for him in that it's obvious Alice was abusive to him and continues to harass and abuse him.
I am so happy that an attorney is finally exposing the horrible person Alice Evans is.
I find it utterly ridiculous that people in this day and age that people think men can't be abused. I had a female friend when I was younger who was and still is an absolute psychopath. I had seen her attack her boyfriend violently every time she was drunk and he just took it. Any time I saw these alterations I never knew what to do I was so young at the time.
They did eventually break up but she would not let him move on. She stalked and harassed him and his new girlfriend and she did so gleefully. I hated being her friend but I was scared of her and thought it better to keep quiet. The things this girl would do were so shocking.
Years later after she moved and I didnt have to see her anymore I started telling people the things she had done one of which was smashing a brick into someone's face. Not ones person believed me, why? because men can't be abused and two she was an extremely beautiful blonde and petite. Model good looks which made her so narcissistic and yet somehow her looks meant she wasn't an Insane psycho and she used this to her benefit. I wish people would educate themselves on narcissistic abuse and what it looks like.
She has children now I heard and I dread to think what growing up with her as a mother will do to them. I just hope she's changed but I doubt it because people rarely do.
I’m so glad you’re bringing attention to the damage women can do, not only to their exes but to their own kids because of personality disorders. Imagine if Johnny Depp & Amber Heard had kids in common, well I guess this new case will highlight what many men go through.
It is so many who take that easy way to judge,but this is not about how a woman are abusive compere to how a man are abusive! or react in a ugly divorce.This is about abusive or (disturbed) human beings! When a brake up happened ,it is very little truth we really know! In my experience (it is a lot) The reality could be the completely opposite than told from one of the ex partners. Using their children in the battle are very mean,so that tell a lot about the parents personality. So that is very revealing! and sad. Both men and woman could be a mess in this situation and act like their lost their mind -Both can be a She devil,like in the movie "She Devil" Lovesickness actually make some insane for a period,like being in love could make people in a way insane too ;) This is not a evidence they must have a personality disorder,or be an evil person. This could only be for a very difficult time in their life,and after a while they will be them selves again both men & woman. Having this in our mind please. Just read Helly Poppys comment under here! A war between woman & Men is not what the world need! It has to stop now! I must add: I have great respect for Andrea as a lawyer,and her wise speeches. But the genuin expert on this issues,are the real victims and people really been in this situations themselves. What we really need is a war against genuin Narcsisisst/Sociopaths/Psycopaths! Expose them in all levels in the society now!
I think what many of the commenters here don't realise is what's going down in real time on Twitter after Andrea posted this video link to her followers. Alice immediately jumped in and has been responding and commenting directly to tweets - denying everything that is alleged in court papers, saying Ioan is lying and that she will happily swear under oath blah blah blah, playing the doting mother who is worried how all this will affect her kids. Effectively breaking her TRO AGAIN by discussing Ioan on SM - to a lawyer no less who is covering her case - how Meta (and dumb) is that? The insanity is real.
Hopefully Andrea will calmly point out how Alice has had multiple opportunities in a court of law to state her case 'under oath' and failed to do so. Hence the criminal charges. That she is using her kids again as ammo to stop Andrea from simply covering a situation entirely driven and escalated by Alice alone shows how depraved she is. She's never once cared about her kids and how her behaviour affects them. But suddenly she's Mary Poppins, is 'in a happy place' and meany old Andrea is going to ruin her life. No Alice, that's all on you.
The court papers provide actual proof, not hearsay, of Alice's endless streams of publicly documented tweets and posts on IG about Ioan and Bianca - genuinely nutty and willingly spewing every aspect of her Divorce and private life - and that of her children - out into the public domain for any nutsack to latch onto. Ioan has always keeps resolutely silent, despite horrific goading by Alice in public on SM. This is irrefutable cold, hard proof and Alice seems to think if she deletes stuff, it didn't happen and won't be used in court. It's either rampant narcissism and arrogance, or serious mental illness, but her delusion game is strong.
Edit: It appears Alice has closed her Twitter account. Again. Probably to delete all her latest nonsense. Except there are people out there who take screenshots and keep all the receipts. Give it till Andrea uploads the next video and she'll pop right back up again....
She might have deleted her Twitter (she'll soon be back as one of her aggressive supporters has told her followers) so her past tweets cannot be searched right now.
As in the past, Alice has tweeted a lot in support of Johnny Depp and against Amber Heard (even claiming to be like a wronged Depp and comparing Ioan to Heard) and right now her aggressive (allegedly a lawyer?) fan is also a big Amber Heard fan is trying to get all the Amber Heard supporters to support Alice as well (against Andrea whom they disparagingly call a "Depphead") and try to make a case that Alice has always supported Amber Heard and therefore should be supported by Amber supporters who would help her to attack Andrea.
(It sounds completely ridiculous. But their tweets are real. Even teenagers have more sense than these cyberbullies).
I look forward to Andrea analysing and dissecting Alice's case and presenting it to us in her usual level-headed and poised manner. Just worried about the online abuse she will get from Alice directly, through her countless sock accounts, and by proxy.
@@PaleTyche The Wayback Machine is everyone's friend. Except Alice LOL. Yes she has some absolutely batshit crazy followers who swear black is white in her 'defence' despite literally mountains of documented evidence to the contrary available for all to see. They usually have agendas of their own or love living vicariously through Alice's drama as it gives them purpose and makes a change from talking to their cats. It's scary how myopic they are in their blind support of her and allow themselves to be whipped up to bully and harass on her behalf. Extremely infantile and extremely unhinged. Like Alice (in my opinion at least). Thankfully the Family and Criminal Courts in L.A don't operate via Alice's fantasy Court of Social Media. They do real world shit and it's hitting the fan for her in a very serious and very big way. Getting combative on Twitter and mentioning her ex (who she's legally bound NOT to mention thanks to a court issued RO) with actual lawyers and their followers - after failing to show for two court dates (where she had ample opportunities to state her case/defence under oath but chose not to) and now facing imminent criminal proceedings along with a custody hearing - has got to be one of the dumbest and most destructive things she's done (lately). It proves she doesn't give a shit about her kids and only about getting the last word and feeding off the attention. It all could've been so different...
I’ve been a fan of Ioan’s since Horatio Hornblower. Always knew Alice was bad, just not THIS bad. It’s been so sad to watch.
Thank you SO much, Andrea, for giving visibility to this.
There are so many red flags 🚩 Thank you for covering this!! Please please cover more! She is a covert narcissist just like Amber Heard
Thank you for continuing to highlight this problem. It’s more common than everyone thinks.
True!
I am glad you are covering this. I love the way you present and educate us on the law. I remember this case coming out last year. Looking forward to more.
Thank you Andrea for covering this.I really liked him in Horatio Hornblower. I'll be interested.
Thank you Andrea. Poor Ioan and the kids. My two boys watched all the Hornblower episodes so I recognised him but not her. I'm looking forward to your analysis of the legal situation.
Thank you for the great video. I'm so sad to hear he has been going through this abuse (and his children too). I loved him in Hornblower!
So glad you've covered this one. I remember being shocked at it as I hadn't heard rumblings about it and they'd been together for a while. We need to show that anyone can be subjected to abuse
Andrea, thank you so much for discovering this DV case and delving into it for us! I was shocked when Ioan walked away from his marriage, it seemed sudden and for no reason, at least to me at the time. I never saw any red flags b3cause I wasn’t looking for any, but now that I think about it, I did see one! I used to follow them on IG and enjoyed the funny videos, but one day, Ioan got excited and very loud, watching Wales win a football match on TV, when his elder daughter began to cry. Alice reprimanded Ioan, “You know how scared she gets when you start yelling!” Ioan immediately hugged his daughter and apologised. I thought it was strange but never understood why she was like that. Now it makes sense!
She's known to post pictures against his will as well, so she most likely posted the humiliating video without his consent -- which is a red flag in itself.
Thank you for covering this. As someone who has been a DV survivor and who has a child and co parents with that same person (and sadly but for my own reasons I am still co-habitating with) I am always interested in hearing about the legal side.
From my own experience I know that it’s hard as a male. In my experience my ex partner confessed to the abuse and was charged but they let her please down to breaking the restraining order (she called me from jail 17 times to bail her out and then had a bail bondsman call me to bail her out).
In time I took her back because I believed she might have just been going through post pardum depression.
I’ve had a unique experience to see that someone who has charges of DV even thought they only get charged with the lessor charge of breaking a restraining order, have their professional lives impacted. But I’ve also seen and experienced how that can change that person’s perspective (I’ve heard a few times now “if I’m going to be charged I might as well make it worth it”, though it’s only been a threat and nothing violent like that has happened to me personally, as I try and defuse situations and or leave).
But I have also seen how hard it is to even report some situations.
In my own experience it might not be personal violence. It can be withholding the child hand off, and when you try and report to the police / sheriff, they tell you to take it up with the family court. Of course family court will only take it up if you have some sort of documentation. And for every time that happens it just emboldens / empowers the other person to do it again.
Now, factor that into the cost and time it would take to do court and add in the chances that your child will be affected or what might happen when not in your custody, and sometimes it just becomes easier to stay and try and keep things calm.
Even at the high cost it can claim (both monetarily and in peace of mind at times).
Anyways probably oversharing but I just mean to say, seeing someone, anyone, speaking to it is encouraging.
I know personally even if I have felt like sharing I often hear people just say “report it or go to court” as if they fully understand what that process is like for a man.
So really, I appreciate someone even speaking to this. ❤
@James B
I understand your frustration & hesitancy to call authorities &/or report. If nothing else document if & when there is any abuse that way you have a record, just in case. Hopefully, family court will soon catch up to the fact that women can be the perpetrator of abuse, as well as recognizing the importance of maintaining the relationship between a father & any children. Ensuring there is no parental alienation & if there is, there needs to be consequences.
Wishing you all the best.
Thanks, I have and I do. I confess that I am not always good at documenting all the days I take my daughter to school and pick her up but then the school does. And I’ve been more diligent about documenting other things. A few months back my ex took my phone while I was documenting and wouldn’t give it back. Thankfully I have another phone for work and the two are connected via find my phone, so I was able to find it later and get it back.
But primarily I just leave things alone when I can and try to ensure that things stay calm.
I doubt I will need to go to court unless I decide to challenge custody arrangement which is Saturday to Tues afternoon (my days) and Tues afternoon to Saturday morning (her days). Which is why I let my ex stay with me if I want to have my daughter in school in my town versus where her grandma lives (my ex’s mom lives about 75 miles away). Which means I almost always pay for everything, and try to stay outnumber her way when she is feeling depressed or frustrated ect. But, if you’re a parent you know that you’d almost do anything to be able to have your children around all the time and know they are primarily in a good place that you have some semblance of contributing to. So sacrifices are ok at this point, especially given the family law system.
I’m actually lucky. I know of others who have had their ex’s claim sexual abuse or DV and end up with full custody as well as child support ect and they never get time with their kids. Or others who have spent countless trips to court and tens of thousands of dollars just to be able to have some kind of joint custody.
The real victims in those scenarios always seems to me to be the children. :/
So sad for you. My father-in-law was in an abusive marriage which he endured until the kids were out of the home in their twenties.
I am glad you are covering this as many men are abused just as much as women are! In my case with my ex husband, it was mental abuse against me and physical on his part and finaly after month s of counceling, total abandondment by him. After a few years I forgave him and chose to let him go on his own and live his own life and I live mine in peace and we did share our children respectfully. But this case is just shocking for me to hear as a lot reported about this divorce was mostly bad press about Ioan! I am so glad Ioan
is getting his day in court but also shocked that Alice would be that bad twords him and use t hier girls against him, and I feel especially bad for the two girls!!!
This is always a sad situation. This is why my father would not divorce my mother. He endured life with my mother much too long. He was terrified that she would harm me worse, lose his job if she were to make allegations, and never be employable due to false allegations. Living in a small town has it's benefits and it's drawbacks.
I have been following this for a while. Huge fan of Ioan Griffith. I have read some of the comments his ex has written. Her vitriol and escalating accusations are completely suspect.
Thank you for covering this.
Thank you for covering this. I’m Virginia we weren’t even allowed to say the words parental alienation. The court system was terrible in helping the child involved. There just isn’t enough insight and/or education within the court system.
Great job Andrea! This is something I certainly will be following with you . Any situation like this is always much more sad due to children being involved. I do agree totally with you that Johhny Depp had more physical resources than the average man, but as a human, that was being abused and emotionally controlled, I believe we all are on the same level. He could physically remove himself from the abuse at times but not emotionally.
Thank you for sharing another important case with us. JD was not the only man in an abusive relationship. Family law is tough. Administration abuse is a real thing.
As someone that got caught up in the system as the abused, yet portrayed as the abuser, I'm very interested in this series.
Despite the many years ago (33+) and the strong relationship I've had with my children for 27+ years now, my heart will probably bleed empathy for the children in this case.
Thank you for covering such a misunderstood (imho) topic and I trust your legal analysis as well as your humility in every video I've watched (all of them) along with precise and careful language...💜
I have been waiting for someone to cover this case! So glad it’s you!
My daughter had 6 years of her physically abusive ex continuing with verbal & emotional abuse after she left him. The 4 kids were horribly impacted by his tactics. He & his new g’friend & the g’friends best friend, concocted a story of lies & my daughter got arrested, facing 20yrs in jail. Thanks to CCTV & the ‘three amigos’ each telling a different lie, the case against my daughters was dropped by the state prosecutor (before it got to court) because of lack of evidence…..because of course, she didn’t do what she was accused of. Now she’s happily single, the kids refuse to have anything to do with their father (3 are over 18yrs of age). Awful time but everyone is healing…..
Johnny (and his kids) were also fortunate in that his kids weren’t Amber’s and could get out of the house. I feel worst for the kids. They are stuck in a horrible situation. I hope that they get the support they need to heal from this. I hadn’t heard about this situation but will definitely be watching future updates!!
WHAT? He's Mr. Fantastic from Fantastic 4!!!
Best legal analysis on UA-cam.
I hadn’t heard of this case. Thank you for covering this. I am here for more conversation towards male victims of dv getting the recognition and vindication they deserve. I hope more conversation leads to more support and resources for male victims of dv.
This is the first i heard of this case. I can say he was excellent in the hornblower series, one of the best mini series i have binged. Thanks for digging into this
My family loved the Hornblower series and have rewatched several times. I saw mention of this situation a year or so ago and was so saddened by it. Thank you so much for your time and effort in bringing your excellent analysis to this case - really looking forward to it.
This case definitely has me curious! I loved the movie that introduced them and was sad to hear that things had gone so sideways, but then it flew off the rails entirely & started sounding awfullllly familiar with things that have been discussed in the last year. How you manage to break that all down to short videos without it feeling like there are a gazillion gaps I will never know but it is an artform you excel at! Looking forward to your continuing deep dive on this one!
For me he is mostly know from fantastic for from 2005 and the tv-show of Forever. He seems to be a really good actor always very likeable. If you want a good tv-show with only 22 episodes Forever is for you. ;) Thanks for making a video about it. It is a really bad situation he seems to be in and please continue to inform us about those things. It is really helpful. Thank you.
I'm glad you covered this although I feel sorry for you as I can only imagine the trolling/abuse you're about to receive.
I used to be a fan of them both in my teens...well until she nuked his fansite but that's another story entirely 😭 I've been watching over this and sadly she hasn't changed one bit in nearly 16 years.
Please, oh please, oh please tell me he has primary physical custody of those two girls! I should say something here about Evans. In my spare time I administer to fansites. Fansites are those things one created on an actor such as Gruffudd. There was one a while back after he did "Fantastic Four" and the sequel "The Silver Surfer." The admins of the site were contacted by Gruffudd, himself, and was offered exclusive details and pictures and his contribution to the forum included with the site. Evans signed up and began posting things to the fans, but then ironically Evans' behaviour sort of came out at that point. It was believed at the time her conduct had to do with her disagreeing and or pushing up against the owners of the site. One of the owners of the site pushed back against Evans and called her out on her abusive behaviour. Evans shut the site down by contacting the ICANN registry and had the domain pulled. We all thought at the time it was the admins. Looks like it was her all along.
Thanks for covering this Andrea. Could you please keep us posted?
He does not. Visitation on Saturdays was the most recent arrangement.
@@aburkhartlaw And if you look at the court documents he filed on January 31, 2023 (Responsive Declaration to Request for Order), Alice keeps manipulating their daughters, so they are afraid to meet him or she attempts to be present at their meetings demanding her daughters to put her on speakerphone during their visits with their dad or claims that the girls are ill and cannot attend or claims that they are out of town with friends (when in reality this was not true) and so on. The result is that he can hardly see them at all. A full-blown PA is happening. It is absolutely heartbreaking.
Thank you for talking about this 💜
I’m so looking forward for the next video
Looking forward to this. During the Depp trial I somehow ended up following a Twitter account who provided info about this case and it is wild.
I'm so glad Andrea is researching this case, I've been aware of it from the outset due to living here in the UK and it being played out in the tabloids/social media. Having worked in a solicitors (family law), it's egregious how men are treated - I couldn't help but overhear throw-away comments and conversations between solicitors who were so contemptuous of men in general and how confident they were at tying them up legally for a long time to the point they'd would give up attempting to gain access to their children, let alone joint or sole custody. That was back in the early 2000s, I hope things have changed considerably since then.
I loved him as Mr. Fantastic in the 1st fantastic four movies am sadden to hear that this is where his life is now. Thank you for covering this!
Heard of this case, not super caught up with all the details but from what I've seen so far she seems absolutely batshit crazy
FINALLY!! I have been talking about this for ages!! Thank you
Very well researched and presented. Interesting. Thank you.
Thank you so much for lending your expertise to this story.
I'd read this story several years back, although it wasn't given much media coverage.
Ioan has really had a rough time. I feel for him.
Obviously I feel for victims of DV as well but using accusations as weapons in family court is unfortunately more common that most people like to admit.
Johnny Depp is a rich, handsome and famous one percenter and even he is still being slammed on social media, having various groups write Amicus briefs and open letters, etc.
If he didn't have the finances to pay for years of lawyers I think Depp would still be considered an abuser. Heck some "people" still blame him. I digress.
Bottom line he did clear his name in court. However I honestly doubt his career will fully recover mainly because of AH supporters who have spent the last 8 or 9 months poisoning the well and distorting the verdict.
His art & music his "true" ❤️ will save & sustain him. But hoping his does some Indy films while Disney, Warner Bros & others crumble out of existence. They chose "their" opinions over fans & now are paying the price. 😄
@@AuntClara0911 i agree. Depp is a very talented person. Musician, painter, great actor. Even if his career doesn't fully recover i think he'll be ok. If he never did another movie he still has a nice body of work and he will always have fans that appreciate his work.
Thx Andrea Burkhart. Well done, interesting, as always. ✌
Using your children as pawns is unacceptable in any situation. Men are more often than not, overlooked in situations such as these & I am glad you are highlighting this case.
Looking forward to your views & knowledge on this, as I do in all that you cover 😊
Looking forward to this Andrea… love your videos!
HOly bloody hell!! I love him as an actor!!! He hasn't been in films for a while. The Horratio movies are incredible!!!
Thanks for covering this andrea. Interesting, and difficult when children is involved..
It’s good that this case is more like the average female perpetrated DV case. Shedding light on rights of parents/children, and parental alienation is needed imo. Awareness is important to attempt to stop the cycle of abuse. Thanks.
Thank you Mara! I agree, these cases are too often ignored or minimized. 🐟🐟🐟
This is a sad situation for Ione, but more so for their children. Children deserve a childhood they don't have to recover from. Ty Andrea! Looking forward to more videos about this case.
He also appeared as the only officer to return with a lifeboat in Titanic, and starred alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar in a short lived series called Ringer in the mid 2000s.
For Johnny, those people weren't always around.
Amber beat on him mainly when people weren't around😔
Thank you again🙏🏼
Andrea, I'm glad your bringing this to light. Hopefully this will bring more awareness to domestic violence , children being used as pawns!! And cause them harm mentality
Thanks Andrea.
this is incredible. Glad the truth is coming out finally.
He was in the first "Fantastic Four" movie as Mr. Fantastic with Chris Evans (Captain America), the human torch. 🙂
So glad you are covering this! I have been compiling since August 2022 to see how it would develop and its been wild! It's interesting as this case has children involved and so many DV cases are like this. Ioann's receipts to rebut Alice's claims is very strong and Alice really is horrible to actually do all this! I think she even missed hearings.
Thank you for covering this story. I remember hearing about it awhile back and then nothing. I look forward to your coverage.
Re: @12:35 I appreciate you differentiating between it being rare that women *commit* DV and it being rare that women *face charges* as a result of committing DV. Female-perpetrated DV is sadly no longer a rare occurrence at all.
So glad your covering this. I'd never heard of but after Depp trial & seeing actual book "How to Destroy a Man" I've been seriously worried. Glad MM has gone as it has Maybe people will pay attention I 🙏. Actually I rather surprised that with how Sue happy AH is she hasn't sued Me too or ACLU for telling & giving her false hope on winning! I SO wish she would.
Will be watching & listening Andrea!
Thanks for covering these issues!
imagine what the daughters have to hear Alice Evans spew about their father if she is so nasty as to rant and rage in texts, she is causing such ruination and in the end i think her daughters will choose to be estranged from her. She has demonstrated her malignant desire for control so clearly that she'll end up completely alone,hope it doesnt come to that and she just accepts its time to draw a line and move on and give up the fallacy that the world works according to her moods.
I really hope you make more videos on this case. She is AH 2.0 through and through and there’s not enough on the internet about this. She is an abusive female narcissist! Please do more videos!!
You like to SEE other people tragedies, interesting...
@Ioangruffuddoffcl is this the real Ioan? 🤨🤔
He's well knowed,he did 2 of The Fantastic 4 initial movies,he was mr fantastic,with Chris Evans,Jéssica alba,Michael chiklis,102 dalmatians,San Andreas with dwanye "the rock" johnson and he enter in a lot of TV series!!!!! He was always super Nice,i never thought that she was that type of person that would threatned people to get her way!!!!!
People are the worst when it comes to relationships ending. Especially with kids. You would think that knowing they will be bound together forever would make people make an effort to amicable…in reality it leads to the opposite.
Of course it's heartbreaking to be left for whatever reason, but I think that if you can come to an arrangement that is best for the wellbeing of your children, you can be dignified around your kids and estranged partner and vent your hurt and anger elsewhere. Easier said than done I realise.
From a child of severe domestic abuse from my father to mother but emotional from her to knowing a man who looked so happy and finding out he was being battered everyday by his wife this is so welcomed.
interesting case. but sorry to know that Ioan is going through this. that alice said she would do an 'amber heard' on him - don't know if you could have a bigger red flag.
Appreciate you checking the way to say his name! Ioan's probably better known for the two Fantastic Four films -- not great, though better than the more recent one.
This is so sad. Being in Australia, we know Ioan' movies. We get a lot of British film here. X
Thank you for covering the different cases.
Sounds like this guy needs #CamilleVasquez & BenChew from #JOHNNYDEPP's case. Wtf is wrong with these type of women abusers. Smfh. Don't know who the guy or chick is bcuz I am not a movie person but you are going to see more & more GUYS come out & let ppl know that chicks are so abusive & very narcissistic/manipulative/controlling. IF it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be. So many times in relationships there is cheating/adulterous behavior when they step outside the relationship. The s*x ring we all found out about lately a couple of people (cough-cough) were conducting early on. Hmm. Smh. Then their personality/ mannerisms flips when all the cheating behind their partner or significant other by wanting to look one way for someone when it wasn't them to do so before then. Seen it so many times, Gold Diggers, chicks wanting the Me, Me, Me attention. Oh F'ing LORD HELP US if that's how some chicks act. Imho they really need to GROW UP! It makes them look like ridiculousness. Thank you Andrea, it's great to see you! Have a beautiful Spring & Easter season! 😊✌
He also played the lead in the original fantastic four
I remember the "do an Amber Heard" article. In the heat of the JD and nameless one case, all I had the energy to do was think "Oh no, there´s another one..." Looking forward to getting the details from you.
I can see that I am not alone in this form of a scenario...I must say, it reminds me of PTSD.
This is so interesting. I look forward to learning about the legal process and strategies that you explain so well in laymen terms. I’m sad when I think about how children get involved in the dispute between parents. Thanks so much for your interesting videos.
Because I don't get enough of this in my 8-5...I'm here for this!! 🔥💜🔥
He's probably better known for playing Reed Richards in Fantastic 4 and Alice played the Mikalsons Mother in The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. It's so messy their story.
Parental alienation is very real. It’s one of the cruelest and most evil, insidious tactics that unbalanced and angry parents use. It should be legally punishable in my opinion, because healthy relationships between BOTH parents and their kids is paramount to the development of healthy and well children and will affect the adults they become.
I've been a fan of Ioan since I watched Hornblower (borrowed my friends DVDs) in about 2004, then he was playing Mr Fantastic in the 2005 Fantastic 4 movie (cheesy as hell but still better than the 2015 reboot aka Fan4stic) so I've said from the get go that I found it hard to believe that he'd be like he was described over the last few years
Looking forward to learning more about this case!
Yeah some of the stuff that she was saying, was just crass. If you want to be believed (if you are innocent), you don't start spouting that stuff. Plus don't start dragging your kids into it. It's between the two of you.
Ioan Gryfffyd also starred in two pre-MCU superhero films - 'Fantastic Four" (which was very good) and "FF: Rise of the Sillver Surfer" (not so much).
I know one short meeting is not enough to gauge someone, but I met Ioan Gruffudd briefly several years ago. He was so quiet and polite. Based on that minimal information, I can definitely see how someone like her would take advantage of him. To know that he's been going through this for a long time is heartbreaking.
In UK have seen cases of women found guilty of coercive control.
Worst case was horrific victim was starved had boiling water poured on him!!
Perpetrator was found guilty of GBH & got 7 years.
First woman to be given this kind of sentence, but obviously women are capable of vile behaviour too.
Thank you very much Andrea.
This will be very interesting to follow! Had not heard of this one before today