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Zara Woodcock

Alice Evans was 'slayed' when she discovered husband Ioan Gruffudd had a 'mistress'

Hollywood actress Alice Evans opened up about finding out on Instagram that her husband Ioan Gruffudd had a mistress.

The Vampire Diaries star split from fellow actor Ioan earlier this year after he filed for divorce.

Alice, 53, claimed that the 48-year-old was having a three-year affair behind her back.

Appearing on Lorraine, the star said: "My phone pinged and it said, 'Ioan Gruffudd has unblocked you on Instagram' or whatever.

"I thought, 'Oh! Maybe there's a chance he wants to talk.' And then it was announced by him and his mistress that they were a couple on Instagram two weeks ago.

"I just looked at the picture and it said something like, 'Finally somebody who can make me happy.' And then people started pinging from his set in Australia saying, 'So glad you guys are finally out and allowed to be happy and you're not being held back anymore.'"

She added: "I was just slayed. I was slayed. This is my husband!"

Alice appeared on Lorraine to share her side of the story (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Alice also told host Lorraine Kelly that her estranged husband only talks to her through lawyers and 'rarely talks to the children on FaceTime'.

She claimed everything was fine until he returned from Australia after filming his new project.

"I feel like such a fool... he came in and hugged the kids, then dryly gave me a kiss on the cheek and that was how I knew something was wrong," Alice added.

It comes after the Welsh actor recently went public on Instagram with co-star Bianca Wallace.

The actress had lashed out at Ioan after she found out her relationship was falling apart due to an extra-marital affair.

In a scathing post, she penned: “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.”

He recently shared a snap of his new girlfriend (Instagram)

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Following her outburst, Alice has since confirmed that she has yet to hear from her husband of twenty years.

“Still nothing. We were together for 20 years,” she told.

“We spoke every day, at least three or four times. He was my best friend, my twin soul. I don’t know how to move on. I will, but at the moment I have no idea.”

Alice and Ioan fell in love with each other on the set of 102 Dalmatians back in 2000.

Six years later, the pair got engaged and they then tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in Mexico in 2007.

Following several years of blissful marriage, the pair’s relationship came to a very public end in January when Alice revealed that her marriage was over on social media.

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