how hurt Kerstin must have been over the breakup all those years ago. As Kerstin wants to leave with Leonie, Jan's mother Clarissa von Anstetten threatens her to allow Jan and Leonie a normal father-daughter relationship, otherwise Kerstin would know what she's capable of. Kerstin realizes in the end that Jan has really interest in getting to know Leonie and agrees that she can stay a while with him. Kerstin returns a few months later to Düsseldorf, where Leonie followed Timo Mendes, Julia's teenaged son, to after he found out the truth about his father's murder. Leonie got in a terrible accident and Kerstin is concerned for her. She makes arrangements to take her daughter back to Paris, but Leonie wants to stay in Düsseldorf with Timo, who finally has become her boyfriend. Kerstin tries to support the relationship and offers Timo to visit every time he wants since Paris is only a few hours away. But when Kerstin realizes how happy Leonie is in Düsseldorf with her new group of friends, she agrees to let her daughter stay. Leonie is over the moon and mother and daughter are left on good terms. References Verbotene Liebe characters Television characters introduced in 1997