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Ioan GruffuddandAlice Evans'13-year-old daughter Ella has filed for a restraining order against her father.
In documents filed on May 31 at the Los Angeles Superior Court, the teenager applied for a temporary restraining order from her dad, 49, and a civil harassment protection from Gruffudd’s girlfriend, Bianca Wallace,The Daily Mailreported.
The restraining order request was reportedly filed after an incident at Gruffudd and Wallace’s home in Los Angeles. Ella and her sister Elsie, 9, were in town visiting their father, the outlet said.
A source close to the family tells PEOPLE: “I wouldn’t put the blame on Alice. Ioan wants to have Ella be friends with Bianca and she’s unwilling to do that at the moment. I think that’s been a source of conflict.”
Representatives for Gruffudd, Evans and Wallace did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Gruffudd and Evans, 54, met in the 2000 set of102 Dalmatiansand were married in 2007. The actorfiled for divorcein March 2021.
Ella’s move against her actor father and his girlfriend, 29, is the latest in a string of restraining orders tied to the family.
Evanswas cleared of charges after allegedly violatingher ex-husband’s restraining order against her in March.The Daily Mailreported that prosecutors chose to drop the charges against Evans after they told Commissioner James Cooper during a hearing at Los Angeles' Airport Courthouse that they were “unable to proceed” with them.
The actress had previously pleaded not guilty to two charges of violating the restraining order, which bars her from posting remarks about Gruffudd or his current girlfriend on social media.
In his petition, Gruffudd claimed he had told Evans he was “unhappy” in their relationship in August 2020. The actor said Evans “repeatedly told me between August 2020 and our separation on January 1, 2021 that if I left her, she would make false public accusations about me, sell false stories about me to the press, and destroy me and my career.”
source: people.com
