Oliver Pocher and child benefit: Ex-wife Amira Aly has “no entitlement”

Even though Oliver Pocher (46) and Amira Aly (31) are now “officially divorced”, as he announced a few days ago, he does not leave previous events and allegations uncommented. In the new episode of the series he has with his first ex-wife Alessandra Meyer-Wölden (41), the comedian responds, among other things, to the fact that he is allegedly not supposed to pay anything for their children.

Olli Aly and the “name talk”

“When a divorce is served, it’s another emotional moment,” says the 46-year-old. “When you read it in black and white and there’s a form there and it’s summarised in a very official, sober, factual way that the whole thing is just done.”

Pocher first talks about the “name talk” – because his ex-wife is no longer called Amira Pocher, at least unofficially, but Amira Aly. In August, she took part in the TV show “Beat the Star” under her new old name and won prize money of 100,000 euros. “So the [Name] “It’s not even through yet,” says Pocher now. “She has to go back to the registry office, it has to be recognized first. But in principle she is still Amira Pocher until the name is registered in the registry office, changed, everything else.” It is a procedure that takes several weeks.

“I have applied to the registry office for a name change. It is not official yet, just a formality. But my appearance as Amira Aly on ‘Schlag den Star’ will help me get used to my new or old name,” she said. In “Liebes Leben”, with her brother Hima, she also explained shortly after the appearance: “I wanted to compete in this show as Amira Aly and win.” She is “really happy to be able to use my name again. It always feels good.”

“We sometimes play podcast ping-pong so that Amira can tell us something, and I sometimes find it difficult when she simply says or claims things that aren’t true,” Pocher accuses his ex. He says that she had “three different variations” when the discussion turned to dropping the name. First came the argument that she wanted to be called the same as her children, then that she didn’t care about the name, and finally that he suggested a double name. But he didn’t even notice that: “When have we ever discussed a double name?” He, for his part, would have liked to take Amira’s last name at the time, “because I just thought Olli Aly was incredibly cute.”

100,000 euros and no child benefit?

“Then came the next number where she said I don’t pay child support,” Pocher explains elsewhere. And he continues: “To be honest, that annoyed me too, because that is simply a false statement. First of all, you have to be entitled to child support first. That’s just like if I say: ‘Yes, I haven’t received any citizen’s allowance for a year.'”

When asked by her brother about the prize money from the TV show, Aly said in her podcast that she would “definitely find a use for it” because she was “creating a home for my children and me”. The money “definitely goes straight into the house. A good cause for the children.” “Since I am currently building a house in Cologne for myself and my two sons and my ex-husband Olli Pocher, contrary to his public claims, is not paying anything for the children, I will keep the 100,000 euros.” And: “He has not paid child support for a year.”

“Then Amira said something about child benefit. […] Because we have joint custody, we each bear the children’s costs ourselves,” says Pocher. And the time with the children is also split 50/50. “In Amira’s perception, she has the children 480 days a year, and I have four hours.” According to Pocher, it is a fact “that I not only pay the children’s health insurance, but also pay for the kindergarten…” He does not have to explain or justify himself, Meyer-Wölden interjects. “Yes, I have to explain,” Pocher replies. Many people want to make it seem as if he is exaggerating.

“There is no entitlement,” Pocher returns to the original thought. So that his ex-wife would no longer take the name, the comedian “gave up a lot of money, just to make that clear.” Aly “got something too,” even if she had earned a lot of money since the two met. “And then to say: ‘I would like to have 500 euros here, 800 euros there, I would have liked to have paid something here and so on’,” Pocher finds “difficult.” Because if something were to happen with the children, “then you can always rely on me and I’m always there” – regardless of whether it’s about money or emotional things.