Someone linked this forum to me earlier in the thread (I can't remember who it was, sorry!) to show that Alice had been awful for many years.
I found this comment there:
Post by kiwi on Mar 10, 2007 at 9:32am
Alice was also in a relationship with Picasso's immensely rich grandson when she met Ioan, as far as I remember. She's had a very unusual life -- I think she went to France in her late teens, started getting acting work, almost instantly hooked up with Picasso and was swept into a very privileged lifestyle (and she was no impoverished child prior to this). The level of attention this 8-year liason got in France was something akin to what JFK Jr got here. I recall reading some interviews at the time; when they split up and she got together with Ioan,
she made lots of references to not being a grown-up in that relationship. Considering the immediate segue to Gruffudd,
I'm thinking that she's never quite had to learn how to be a self-reliant, intelligent adult, and both the words "fairy tale" and "spoilt" spring to mind.