The musician split from the 43-year-old actress in 2014 after almost 10 years of marriage but worked hard to "maintain a friendship" so their children Apple, 11, and Moses, nine, would never have to read negatives stories about their relationship, reported Femalefirst.
"If you have kids and they start reading about their parents not liking each other, that's not good. We just spent a long time trying to maintain a friendship so there wouldn't have to be any kind of battle," he said.
Despite the high profile of their marriage breakdown, the 38-year-old singer managed to avoid reading media coverage of their split as he felt there would be "no good" in doing so.
"Especially if you go through a big break-up, there's no point reading about it. There's just no good gonna come from it.
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