Their story began as a picture-perfect couple, young actors showing equal promise and a matching, almost impossible, beauty.
The deal was sealed with a New Year’s Eve proposal delivered via a Cartier engagement ring set into an ice cube in a Mojito cocktail.
‘Angel, will you do the marrying thing?’ were the fond words chosen that night in Cuba.
It’s ended now with a howl of pain, and accusations of lies, ‘gaslighting’ and ‘mental torture’ made via Twitter in the small hours.
Indeed, the drama surrounding the sudden collapse of Ioan Gruffudd’s 13-year-marriage to actress Alice Evans would scarcely be out of place in one of the twisted domestic dramas he has been starring in recently.