Seal & Heidi's "Separation"...

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A Story of Love gone sour...

Seal and Heidi Klum were "shocked" by their separation.

During an interview with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres on the 24th January 2012, Seal spoke openly about his break up with supermodel Heidi."I think we were shocked," Seal explains on Ellen. "You go into these things with the greatest intentions when you say 'I do' and you say ''Till death do us part.' Those vows hold value. They are not just words.

These things happen. We pretty much said how we feel and made it clear in the release statement."But ... you just grow apart after awhile. You try and you work through it and the thing that you quickly realise when you are married and you become a parent is you do the best that you can. It makes you actually appreciate your parents a lot more.

"The thing that I'm most proud about this great woman who I married—and I really do mean that from the bottom of my heart—is that together she has given me four incredible gifts…four beautiful children.

"She still, in my opinion, the most wonderful woman in the world. I think our priority was to remain civil and do this thing with dignity," he continued. "We still very much love each other. It's not a question of we were never to follow suit of some breakup or separations that you hear about, especially in our industry. It's a shame.

"To say that neither of us were grieving would be an out and out lie, and I don't mind telling you that. I think the operative here is that we are civil to each other and we both have a tremendous amount of respect and love and we try and do this with as much dignity as we possibly can. And of course, when you have four children, you hope and pray that the rest of the world will respect that we have four children and that their little hearts are at stake, too."

He also insisted that his split from Heidi was not really an "issue".

"Just because you decide to separate—I don't think you all of a sudden stop loving each other, I don't think you all of a sudden stop becoming friends. Especially when there are other things to take into consideration, like family. So to be honest, it's not really that difficult and it's not really that much of an issue.

"What one has to do in this situation is to remain civil and to retain one's dignity and to be professional and to understand we are not the only people on this planet that go through this. It is just, unfortunately, a chapter of life."

He also told Ellen that he has no intention to remove his wedding ring just yet.

He told Ellen: "I think it's just pretty much a token of how I feel about this woman. We have eight years. Eight wonderful years together. Just because we have decided to separate doesn't necessarily mean you take off your ring and you're no longer connected to that person. 

"We will be connected in many ways till the rest of our lives…through our children and also through this tremendous admiration, respect and love that we have for each other. Will we wear the ring for the rest of our lives? Who knows? But right now it feels really comfortable on my hand, so I have no intentions of taking it off anytime soon."

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Simply Cheska.