I know I've posted about Alice's interview with the Daily Mail several times, but it's even more revealing now to read it in light of her abuse being revealed. How many lies does it contain too?
Who was this girl?! I'd never seen her face. Never heard her name. I did what any normal(ish) person would do — I went straight to Google.
You literally screamed her full name down to Ioan before he revealed his relationship on Instagram.
They didn't have answers any more than I did. Something was wrong, clearly. And we were in a pandemic. I was stuck at home while my daughters Ella, 12, and Elsie, eight, were (ostensibly) doing online schooling.
Why "ostensibly"? Because you're a neglectful mother who doesn't supervise her daughters?
I just lost the plot. I tweeted this: 'Help. He's told us he's leaving us. I don't know what to do.'
His reaction was instant. (He read all my tweets, because he said he 'needed to keep an eye on me'). He grabbed my computer and deleted my tweet.
He was raging at me. Screaming at the top of his voice. 'How dare you?' His eyes were wide and white — it was terrifying.
I think there's a whole lot of projection going on here. Someone in this relationship was raging and terrifying alright, and the evidence shows that it was you.
The next day he lawyered up. Suddenly, I was on Zoom meetings with five or six legal eagles fearing I might lose custody of my children. The advice was clear. I had to keep quiet. Stop airing my laundry in public.
It might seem odd, but the more I was pushed, prodded, told to get in line, the more the lawyers told me not to talk, the more I felt like doing it.
Because you're an immature 53-year-old woman who actually said she's the smartest person in the room, and won't even listen to legal advice.
There was a ten-second silence, that seemed to go on for ever. Then another ten seconds. And then my world changed for ever.
'I'm sorry, Alice, but I'm afraid I don't. I don't love you any more.'
We had always said we'd be together for ever, I reminded him, but his eyes remained cold.
People are allowed to fall out of love and to end a relationship. Ioan isn't your slave who is bound to you for all eternity.
Some commentators even branded my exposure of our problems as very 'unfeminine'. They said it was un-British to do what I did. Where on earth was my stiff upper lip? Someone from a psychology magazine even wrote a ridiculous open letter to me wondering what, 15 years from now, our daughters would think about my divorce!
Fifteen years from now, do you really think that's what they will be worried about?
So, you're worried about my girls? But you're not worried that their father left them? Can you imagine what people would think if I had walked out and left them? It would have been an outrage.
Yes Alice, your actions now are going to scar them for the rest of their lives, but you are too selfish, full of anger and short-sighted to see this.
I'd have been the scarlet woman, their terrible mother. Yet men like Ioan can just glide away into a lovely new life, walk out on their families and responsibilities, while I am left to pick up the pieces and try to glue our family life back together again, and somehow I am the bad one?
I have also been criticised for telling my daughters about their father's lies, but what am I supposed to do? Continue his lies for him?
Here it is. Why she's so angry. It's about the loss of her lifestyle.
All of a sudden I'm on my own, but I'm pretty resilient. I just wish he had told me the truth much sooner. I'm a problem solver, a realist and a pragmatist.
Of course, if he had done that, I would have been upset. But I would think, 'OK, let's sort this out', and then we would have discussed, you know, how much he thought he was in love with this woman. How much?
I might have been able to persuade him to salvage us. Let's somehow be a two-parent family until our children were at least teenagers.
All I can do now is focus on the girls, on giving them the happiest upbringing I can in the circumstances.
How were you going to "persuade" him Alice? How were you going to "somehow" get him to stay with you until the children had grown up? Oh that's right - you wanted him to move into the garage.
I'm certainly not interested in finding another man even though I do joke about it on Twitter.
So the men you refer to as dating in your hideous messages to Ioan were all fabricated?
ALICE EVANS: There was a ten-second silence, that seemed to go on for ever. And then my world changed for ever. 'I'm sorry, Alice, but I'm afraid I don't. I don't love you any more.'
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