*Heidi Klum says her ex Seal is preventing her from taking her four children to Germany later this year to film “Next Top Model.”
The supermodel has now requested a hearing with her ex-husband over the issue, ET reports.
In the filing, Klum claims the singer does not want the children traveling to Europe amid COVID-19. The ex couple share custody of the kids but they primarily live with Kilm and she says the time their father spends with them is “sporadic at best.”
Klums alleges Seal, whose real name is Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel, “has not yet approved” the kids’ upcoming trip to Germany so she can work on the show. The pair share four children: Leni, 16, Henry, 14, Johan, 13, and Lou, 10.
“I am well aware of all of the necessary precautions associated with the COVID-19 virus, and would never put our children at risk — I have taken all the precautions for Germany the same way I do in the United States,” Klum wrote in her declaration.
She also explained that usually “Next Top Model” is filmed in Los Angels but it has been moved to German to accommodate local cast and crew members who are unable to enter the U.S. because of the pandemic.
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Klum is prepared to alter their previously custody schedule if Seal agrees to the children accompanying their mother to Germany.
“There will be a three-week break for the Christmas holidays … Though the children were originally slated to spend this Christmas break with me (as Henry spent Christmas 2019 with them), I am willing to agree that Henry spend the Christmas break with them again this year so that the children can be with their father during this time, if Henry would like this,” wrote Klum.
“Also, as Henry [Seal] has a British passport, he would be able to visit the children while they are in Germany if he wishes to do so,” she added.
Their daughter Leni (Klum’s child from a previous relationship) also submitted a declaration to the court.
“This is hard because I love both of my parents, but I feel like I need to speak up. I understand that my siblings are too young to speak to the judge, so I am happy to speak for all of us,” she wrote. “My mom needs to film in Germany for a few months and my siblings and I want to go with her.”
“So far, my dad is not allowing us to go, though we have tried to tell him our reasons why we want to,” Leni said, adding that traveling to Germany would be an “amazing opportunity” for all four of them to see their grandparents.
Leni wrote a handwritten letter to her dad, acknowledging that the situation “is not ideal at all,” and that she hopes they can “come up with a plan.”
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