The shocked ex-husband of doomsday Utah mom Elleshia Seymour, who allegedly abducted her four young children and fled to Europe, revealed he had no idea of her bizarre beliefs until her secret TikTok account came to light.
Kendall Seymour, who shares three kids with his ex-wife, insisted she had shown no signs of her paranoid worldview during their marriage or divorce proceedings.
The mom allegedly bundled her kids onto a a one-way Delta Airlines flight from Salt Lake City to Croatia on Nov. 30, believing the “end times” were coming, the father said.
“I didn’t know about any of these ideas of hers until a couple of weeks ago when someone found her TikTok account,” Kendall told KSL-TV.
“She thinks Salt Lake is going to be destroyed and she is trying to get the kids to safety. My only hope is that she is motivated to protect them,” he said.
“There were no signs of that when we were married or divorced in the last five years,” he added.
Elleshia was spotted leading the couple’s three children — along with a fourth child from a previous relationship — through a terminal at Salt Lake International Airport, ABC 4 reported.
The Utah Department of Public Safety issued an endangered and missing advisory on Dec. 10 for Landon Hal Seymour, 11; Levi Parker Seymour, 8; Hazel Rae Seymour, 7; and Jacob Kurt Brady, 3.
Elleshia has been charged with four counts of custodial interference — a third-degree felony — according to the Utah State Legislature.
Kendall previously said his his ex-wife forged passport documents for the kids and left behind and left two ominous notes at home.
One was a “delusional message from God promising her she would be in Italy by Christmas,” and the other was a to-do list, which included throwing away her phone and purchasing a pre-paid phone.
Kendall last saw his children between Nov. 24 and 25, when he dropped them off at school at the start of their scheduled custody time with their mother, he said.
Days later, he was called by a child care worker asking why the children hadn’t shown up for day care.
A welfare search was conducted on Dec. 2 after Elleshia’s colleagues reported that she hadn’t shown up for work and wasn’t answering messages.
That same day, the mom left a voicemail for one of the fathers, explaining she was already in France with the children, according to police.
She allegedly claimed she was planning to seek permanent residence in Europe, and said she had taken her children because the apocalypse was imminent.
“She’s been planning this because she took off on Nov. 30 during my long custody break for Thanksgiving,” Kendall said.
“It has been three weeks now. She has no family in Europe. As far as I know, no contacts out there,” he added.
