Heidi Klum: Seal and I Aren't "the Greatest Friends Right Now" After His Comments About Bodyguard

USMagazine, Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 2:00pm (PDT)

Heidi Klum and her future ex-husband Seal are trying to make it work -- from a distance, that is.

Last week, things got ugly for the former couple, who announced their split in January and filed divorce papers in April. Seal, 49, commented on Klum's supposedly romantic relationship with her longtime bodyguard, Martin Kristen -- quipping to TMZ that Klum lacked "class" and sniped that the supermodel should "at least wait until we separated first before deciding to fornicate with the help."

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Klum, 39, retorted via a statement from her rep: "It is sad that Seal has to resort to this kind of behavior and spread these untruths about the mother of his children." The "Kiss from a Rose" singer than clarified that "he was not implying his wife was cheating while they were together, but he was merely pointing out that their separation and divorce were not final and they are still legally married."

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And while the one-time power couple aren't warring in the aftermath of the scandal, things aren't picture-perfect, either.

"I don't know if we're the greatest friends right now, especially because of the things that he said," Klum admitted to Katie Couric in a pre-taped interview for her show, Katie, this week. "I just saw him on, on Sunday. We were talking and we're in an okay place."

Married for seven years before announcing their split, the pair share four kids: Leni, 8, Henry, 6, Johan, 5, and Lou, 2.

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"It's a work in progress. You have to take it one day at a time," Klum told Couric of dealing with her ex after the scandal. "It's hard especially when you are in the public eye too. People are always looking at you closely and at everything you do. And they also don't always see exactly how it really is."

She added: "I haven't felt like correcting every rumor that is out there. I'm focusing on moving forward."

In a Sept. 3 statement, the Project Runway hostess told Us:  "I cherish all of the great memories Seal and I created together over the years. Our separation was based on issues between the two of us."

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