Ioan Gruffudd makes red carpet debut with girlfriend Bianca Wallace as she admits she ‘feared’ revealing MS diagnosis

Ioan Griffudd and Bianca Wallace made their crimson carpet debut a a charity occasion near her coronary heart (Image: Getty)

Ioan Gruffudd and his girlfriend Bianca Wallace have made their crimson carpet debut collectively at a charity evening for the MS Society. 

The actor, 48, has been relationship Bianca, 29, since October 2021 after he cut up from spouse Alice Evans, 53, in the beginning of final yr. 

Bianca had spoken out about her personal MS analysis in January, revealing it had left her unable to stroll at occasions. 

She admitted she ‘lived in worry’ of talking about it publicly, telling the Day by day Mail on the SMS Battles Quiz for the MS society on Thursday: ‘I wasn’t certain when the second would come for me to open up about my analysis. 

‘Like so many others I lived in worry of what would occur if folks discovered. I might have by no means predicted the overwhelming response that got here with my submit.

‘Listening to how a lot I've already helped so many others on their very own journey is why I'll do no matter I can to help this trigger. 

Bianca has been open about her personal MS analysis (Image: Dave Benett/Getty Pictures)

The couple have been collectively since October 2021 (Image: Dave Benett/Getty Pictures)

‘You by no means really know the way a lot you possibly can assist change lives till you do.’

Bianca had been identified in 2018 and instructed her followers earlier this yr: ‘I used to be identified with a really aggressive kind, it was aggressive in nature and it got here on arduous and quick.’

She had been working in accounting on the time and was taken to A&E when she went to choose up a pen and realised she couldn’t. 

Bianca revealed: ‘Inside just a few weeks I couldn’t stroll any extra, the whole lot of my proper facet was fully worn out.’

She added that she will get tremors in her arms, explaining: ‘I take care of a variety of drama due to the analysis. I'm going blind in my left eye, I've botox to elevate it up. My whole proper facet has nerve injury.

Ioan and Alice cut up final January after 14 years collectively (Image: Toni Anne Barson/FilmMagic)

‘During times of excessive stress and excessive unfavorable emotion, I lose my stroll. This occurs with out fail, I’ve received no approach round it so this is the reason I needed to learn to management my feelings.’

A number of sclerosis is a lifelong situation that may have an effect on the mind and spinal wire and result in a variety of signs, together with issues with imaginative and prescient, arm or leg motion, sensation or stability. 

In lots of instances, signs will be handled and the situation is mostly identified in folks of their 20s and 30s, though it could develop at any age, and is extra widespread in ladies than males. 

The occasion marked the primary time Ioan and Bianca have attended an occasion collectively, after recurrently coming beneath fireplace from his ex Alice. 

The couple had been married for 14 years earlier than Ioan filed for divorce in March final yr, and filed for a restraining order in February 2022. 

Alice in the meantime utilized for authorized and bodily custody of their kids, Ella, 12, and Elsie, eight.