Former 'NCIS' Star Zoe McLellan's Ex-Husband J.P. Gillain Believes Actress Is Mentally Ill And 'Capable Of Anything,' Doesn't Know If Kidnapped Son Sebastian Is Alive Or Dead
July 22 2021, Published 6:57 p.m. ET
For all intents and purposes, former NCIS: New Orleans star Zoe McLellan has fallen off the face of the Earth, which would be well within her right to do if the safety and well-being of a young boy were not being called into question.
It's been a long and contentious road for Sebastian's formerly married parents – Zoe and Jean-Pierre "J.P." Gillain – whose divorce and subsequent custody battle have played out in the media for years.
In May, Los Angeles County issued an arrest warrant for McLellan for outstanding charges of kidnapping, child custody deprivation and child stealing.
Last anybody heard, Zoe was living in an apartment in River Ridge, Louisiana, with Sebastian, who is now 8.
If J.P. was concerned before, he is incomprehensibly desperate now; he believes his son – who he claims he has not spoken to or seen in over two years – is in imminent danger.
"My No. 1 goal, at this point, is to find my child," he told Breaking Celebrity News in an emotional interview.
"The last time I saw my son was April 6, 2019. I heard from his mom not too long ago over emails when we tried to find her and find my son, and then she vanished," he said. "That was sometime in April of this year."
When asked what Zoe's motive would be to stop their most recent email communications, J.P. told us, "I don't know how much I can disclose of this, but Zoe's psychological and mental state is not normal. I lived with her and I know her family background, and I know there was abuse going on with her when she was a small child. She's not totally there."
When they were together, J.P. said Zoe did not speak to her father or stepmother for a decade "over nothing – over the choice of her career, that she wanted to be an actress, and they wanted her to go to college. That's it! She divorced her entire family and didn't speak to them for 10 years. Extremely radical response."
"When I met her, she had quit the business twice as an actress," he went on. "She was extremely suicidal just before I met her. I know for a fact that she's not all there. Her family knows that. As a matter of fact, when her parents came to see our child for the first time, they told us that they had a plan B because they didn't know me [that well at the time], but they knew enough about her that that they had a plan B, which was, 'If we see that Zoe's incapable of taking care of a child, we're taking the child and we're moving back with the child to Seattle,' where they lived."
"She's got this delusional view of life that she maybe thinks she can get away with things and that it's gonna be OK," he added. "I'm sure she's convinced that what she's doing by escaping life and taking our son with her is good for him. It must be something in her head that says that's the best thing to do. She's extremely paranoid, extremely defensive. I just can't begin to explain it."
J.P. said Zoe's mother is diagnosed with having bipolar disorder and that she lost custody of Zoe for a period of time when