Hello
I’m not exactly new. I joined last year, but then was so busy I didn’t come on for months.
I did know Ioan as an actor as I had friends who loved him in ‘Hornblower’. Also he’s Welsh and my maternal side of the family are all Welsh.
I didn’t know he was married to A and had never heard of her or seen her.
Before he left her a video came up on my Facebook feed, probably on one of the ‘Welsh’ pages I follow, where Ioan was watching a rugby match and cheering.
I don’t know if the eldest daughter filmed it, but then in came this woman with one of those belittling eye-roll
look-at-him-being-stupid-again smirks and my hackles rose. I thought, ‘What? He’s just watching a match.’
There wasn’t even any fondness or teasing in her expression and I wondered how he could be married to someone like that. It was only a passing thought and I forgot about it until she she started publicly ranting about their separation.
I came across a link to TL just after that and have intermittently followed along, and oof.
My first instinct about her was right, but she’s far, far worse. She reminds me a bit of a woman I knew back in the 70’s/early 80’s who would have been like this had there been any social media at that time and very much of an online narcissistic bully who spends their whole life creating sock accounts to build their own version of reality and lives in an echo chamber of flying monkeys.
As for people who supposedly support her online, I feel the same as I do about the above narc bully: There may be a few genuine ones but as with the one I know, I would go for 80% at least being socks.
Ioan always looked a kindly man to me. I know appearances can be deceptive but he’s handled this whole thing in a dignified and adult manner while A’s been an out of control screaming harridan with no self-respect and certainly no care for her daughters.
He needs to heal from what I think were years of abuse, emotional manipulation and control.
Nasty bitch that she is.