Breakups are never easy, but they become even more tricky when infidelity rumors are thrown into the mix. Heidi Klum sat down with Katie Couric on the Sept. 12 episode of Katie to set the record straight about her divorce from Seal.
When asked about Seal’s accusation that Heidi cheated with “the help,” the supermodel smirked and said, “Yeah, he has a very unique choice of words.”

“I don’t love that,” she continued, “and it’s obviously not true when I never looked at another man while I was with him.”

Timing aside, the Project Runway host seems quite smitten with her new bodyguard-turned-boyfriend Martin Kirsten.

“I’ve known him for four years and he’s been with our family for the last four years,” Heidi explained. “He’s cared for our entire family and I trust him tremendously. I trust him with my children’s life. He’s a great man.”

Though Heidi said doesn’t know where the “relationship” will lead, or if she can even “call it that,” the mother of four has nothing but praise for the new man in her life.

“He’s a great man,” she gushed. “We just got to know each other from a completely different side.”

Do YOU think Heidi hooked up with Martin while she was still with Seal?

— Jennifer Kamm

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Seal — You’re being big-time selfish! Telling the paparazzi — of all people — that you believe your ex, Heidi Klum, cheated on you with the family’s bodyguard, Martin Kirsten, is victimizing four little people you love.

Yes, that would be daughters Leni, 8, and Lou, 2, as well as sons Henry, 6, and Johan, 5.

Aren’t your children supposed to be the most important, precious thing in the world to you? Don’t you want to protect them? You should. You’re their dad.

That’s why you have to hold in your anger for your ex, even if it’s difficult. Yes, I’m sure it’s very hard to see Heidi moving on with her life. You had many happy years together. However, that ended in a separation last January.

Now both of you are free to take the next steps in your lives — including romantically. Still, you are clearly upset and jealous that Heidi is getting involved in a new relationship.

And again, that’s normal and understandable.

What isn’t understandable, and is terribly wrong, is that you’re lashing out verbally at the mother of your children in public.

It would be bad enough if you accused Heidi of cheating on you in private — and a source close to the situation assures HollywoodLife.com that it’s absolutely not true — but to do it in public is inexcusable.

You are straight up, flat out just hurting, upsetting and embarrassing your kids. It’s already traumatic for children to have their parents divorce. Their world is rocked. Children, of course, want their parents to be together for always.

But there’s a lot that a mommy and a daddy can do to ease their anxiety. And one of the key things is to NOT attack each other nor try and put their children into the middle of a tug-of-war.

When you accuse Heidi of cheating and do it in front of the cameras for the world to see, you are telling your children that you don’t care about their feelings, and also that want them to side with you against their mom.

That’s just terrible. Kids are to be protected. They aren’t pawns. Furthermore, you know that Heidi is a great mother and that your kids are the center of her universe.

You should be trying to be the best dad you can be for your darlings. It’s time to zip your lips, apologize to Heidi and your kids for being a giant jerk, and then work on having the most positive relationship you can have with Heidi.

Believe me — I was a child of a bad divorce — and I know that your kids will thank you if you do that.

What do you think, HollywoodLifers? Should Seal shut up and apologize?

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Heidi Klum is “very upset” following Seal‘s “crazy, untrue accusations” that she began dating bodyguard Martin Kirsten before she and Seal were separated. “Seal is upset that she’s moved on and is having a relationship with someone from their camp that he used to like and would have liked to have on his team,” a source close to the former couple tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively. 

For now, our source insists that “Heidi is focusing on family and moving forward with her life. It’s her time to take care of her family. She’s not interested in going out dating and clubbing. Martin is in her inner circle of five people she trusts and loves and relies on.”

And Heidi’s not the only person who’s enjoying having Martin around. Her children —Leni, 8, Henry, 6, Johan, 5, and Lou, 2 — are also crazy about him!

“[Martin] knows her kids, he loves her kids, and the kids love him,” our source says. “It’s hard to find somebody to know your kids and who will care for your kids. It’s lonely to do it alone and have nobody who cares for your kids like you do. It’s awful that [Seal] is putting down the mother of his children in front of the children. It’s someone who’s a very angry person, not someone who has his kids’ interests in mind.”

Our source is also surprised at Seal’s accusations, because they seem totally out of character.

“Seal normally gets off a plane and calls paparazzi ‘scumbags,’” the source explains. “He’s mercurial at best. He doesn’t act like he’s doing a 60 Minutes interview with paparazzi.”

HollywoodLife.com also reached out to Heidi’s rep, who had this to say:

“It’s sad that [Seal] has to resort to false accusations.”

How do you feel about Heidi and Seal’s unfortunate back-and-forth, HollywoodLifers? Was Seal totally out of line for accusing Heidi and Martin of getting together before she and Seal separated? Drop us a comment with your thoughts below!

— Reporting by Bonnie Fuller

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When Heidi Klum and Seal announced their separation in Jan. 2012, we all marveled at how maturely they were both handling the shocking split — but now it sounds like there’s a whole lot more to the story. Multiple sources tell In Touch that Heidi has been “seeing” her 39-year-old bodyguard Martin Kirsten for three months, adding that “she’s so happy and feels so safe around him.” But what does Heidi’s ex have to say about it?

Nothing good, as it turns out. TMZ’s cameras caught up with Seal Aug. 31, and he pretty much tore into the new couple.

Here’s what he had to say:

“That’s what happens when two people separate. They move on, and that generally means other people in their lives. I certainly don’t expect Heidi to all of a sudden become a nun. But as always, my main priority is the emotional well-being of our children. And to be quite honest, if there is going to be somebody else in their lives, I’d much rather it be a familiar face. I wouldn’t have expected any better from him, but I wish Heidi would have shown a little more class and at least waited until we separated first before she started to fornicate with the help. But I guess you all now have the answer you’ve been looking for the past seven months.”

Ouch! Not only did Seal accuse Heidi of having no class, but he also said the public now has the answer it’s been looking for. Was he insinuating that Heidi’s relationship with Martin began right after they decided to separate?

UPDATE: A rep for Heidi tells HollywoodLife.com, “It’s sad that [Seal] has to resort to false accusations.” We’ve also obtained exclusive details about Heidi’s relationship with Martin, including how it began ”well after” Heidi’s separation from Seal!

Watch Seal’s outrageous speech below:

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