Ioan Gruffudd Exposes AI Scammer Who Faked a Year of Romance With a Fan

Ioan Gruffudd is sounding the alarm after meeting a fan who spent more than a year believing they were having an affair. The woman approached him at a Chattanooga Comic Con in Tennessee and showed him hundreds of AI-generated images and videos that a stranger posing as the actor had sent her. Gruffudd called the material “explicit and disturbing” in an Instagram post Sunday, writing that he found the situation “incredibly distressing.”

The con started on a Facebook page for the CBS drama “Elsbeth,” according to Gruffudd. He appeared in one 2025 episode of the show as Angus Oliphant-Donnachaidh. From there, the scammer obtained the woman’s phone number and pushed her onto Telegram to keep talking.

Gruffudd drew a hard line for his followers: he never hands his cell number to strangers, and the only account of his is @ioangruffudd. “Please do not engage and never send money,” he wrote, urging fans to block anyone claiming to be him. He said he has reported the scheme to police and passed along the scammer’s phone number.

In a follow-up on his Instagram story, the “Fantastic Four” actor stressed that no cash ever changed hands. “No funds ever requested from her or sent by her,” he wrote, adding that the woman told him the lack of a money ask was exactly why she never doubted the relationship was real. That detail, he said, is why he wanted to correct the record publicly.

Gruffudd has been married to Bianca Wallace since April 2025. The couple’s daughter, Mila Mae, was born last November, and he also shares two daughters with ex-wife Alice Evans.