Seal has shared the surprising revelation that he and ex-wife Heidi Klum have never worked as a team, hinting that their relationship is “in pieces.”
The pair, who wed in 2005 but split in 2012 have four children together – Leni, 17, Henry, 15, Johan, 14, and 11-year-old Lou. In 2020 at the height of the pandemic, Heidi claimed that the singer was stopping her from traveling to Germany with the four children over COVID concerns, and eldest daughter Leni petitioned the courts in favor of their mom.
Now, Seal – real name Henry Samuel – has acknowledged that parenting “can be challenging” and “requires teamwork.”
In a new interview, he shared: “If you are a team, if both parents are a team, then it is really easy and that’s not a real challenge at all. But you have to be a team. And if you’re not a team, then it can all fall to pieces.”
When asked if he and Heidi worked together as a team, he replied: “No. I never had that teamwork [with Heidi]. We never had teamwork.”
In 2020 Heidi requested an emergency hearing to allow her to fly her four children to Germany where she was contractually obligated to film Next Top Model. In the filing she shared how, in return, she planned to give Seal the children for the three-week Christmas break, even though “the children were originally slated to spend this Christmas break with me.”
“I am willing to agree that Henry spend the Christmas break with them again this year so that the children can be with their father during this time, if Henry would like this,” she wrote. The supermodel added: “Also, as Henry [Seal] has a British passport, he would be able to visit the children while they are in Germany if he wishes to do so.”
Daughter Leni, who was adopted by Seal in 2009, also submitted a statement to the court, which read: “This is hard because I love both of my parents, but I feel like I need to speak up. I understand that my siblings are too young to speak to the judge, so I am happy to speak for all of us. My mom needs to film in Germany for a few months and my siblings and I want to go with her.”
The pair reached an agreement and the children were given permission to travel to Germany with the singer entitled to “expanded time with the children” upon their return.
