Eliza Szonert accompanied by two men from an unnamed organisation approach her estranged partner Ashley Crick in a Kuala Lumpur restaurant.
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Australian actress Eliza Szonert is calling on the Australian High Commission to help her and her son whom she retrieved from her estranged partner in Mid Valley Megamall, return home.
Within a week the 41-year-old got her son back in a dramatic fashion thanks to one of Australia’s leading child recovery agencies, which chooses to remain anonymous because of security reasons.
Szonert, however, is still stranded in Malaysia as she still does not have her or her son’s passports.
Video, supplied to Fairfax Media by the child recovery agency, recorded the dramatic moment Ms Szonert walks up to her ex-partner in a crowded restaurantl, assisted by two large men, picks up her child and walks away.
The parents have reportedly been involved in a bitter custody battle, resulting in Eliza allegedly being removed from her former partner’s Malaysian hotel without her son or passport.
She said in the second video that she is ‘feeling adrenaline and relieved – I’m crying’.
Ms Szonert has allegedly been stuck in the capital for the past week, following a dispute with Mr Crick.
The spokesperson also assured that Ms Szonert would not do the same to Mr Crick.
The relationship ended three years ago and Mr Crick, who is an accomplished skydiver, since relocated to Malaysia to roll out iflix, an online video platform similar to Netflix.
In an interview for a trade publication recently, Mr Crick was quoted as saying he was an Aussie “learning the South East Asian cultural quirks in a town none of us have lived in before, and enjoying it immensely working on a successful little project”.
It had earlier been reported that Malaysia is not a signatory of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Sydney Morning Herald reported earlier on Thursday.
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Ms Szonert starred in Neighbours as Danni Stark from 1993 to 1996. She has appeared in the movie The Dish, and had a role in Underbelly, in which she played Trish Moran.
