An hour after being ordered to return her two children – eight-year-old Hermes and Helena, who is six – to their father, Daniel Giersch, by a New York judge, the 46-year-old actress filed a federal lawsuit which was dismissed.
Kelly was allowed bring her children to the US for the summer but when she failed to return them to their father last Thursday a judge stepped in.
According to The New York Post, after the incident Kelly accused the judge of being cruel and incompetent and made a bid to take the case to federal court, which was rejected on the grounds that it’s a state matter.
Her attorney, Wendy Murphy, has criticised the court’s decision, saying: “The federal court’s decision was obviously incorrect, and we are appealing.”
Talking about the hearing and being accused of child abduction by her ex, the actress said: ''He was in communication with them every day. You know, I talked to my lawyers, they were saying, this is concerning on many levels."
''I walked into a courtroom where everything felt like it was already done. It was a done deal. And his mother was sitting there with plane tickets, smiling, ready to take them. Nobody had heard our argument," she said.
