She was attractive visually, but her eyes are really cold
I think this is the gist of it. Alice is cold and hard, playing the victim your whole life does that to you, she sees everyone through her harsh
imagined reality. She thought she was the prize, Ioan was happy to be with her while she swanned about on Olivier’s money and the clandestine nature of that relationship was exciting. The excitement continued for a few years, then the reality of life creeps in. Alice who had been part of the “Paris jet-set clan” was now a wife and the lesser known of the two actors. Motherhood comes with it’s happinesses but challenges. He is still living the jobbing actor life and she feels inadequate. Her life is now defined by being a mother, before that she was the baby Angel atop the Christmas tree.
I think she’s insecure, when you start a relationship essentially cheating, it’s hard to get over the fact they might do it to you if they did it with you, sorry that sounds like the FM’s views on relationships, trust me it’s different. She simply didn’t trust him enough.
Her nastiness became more apparent on social media, if she’s saying these things about him online, I can only imagine it was ten times worse at home. Any flop or cancelled show and she’d go off. She liked living the perceived high life, for some reason she believes she deserves nothing less. It’s unsustainable.
There’s only so much browbeating and arguing you can take, I personally think she was physically abusive to him and he tried for years to get away.
Then he did.
What we see now is a hurt ego, Ioan hasn’t died but she talks about him like he has. She reaches out for his hand but he worked away for 8 months of the year etc etc.
I have very little sympathy for her, she’s a spoiled brat having a ridiculous and threatening tantrum.