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You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

What I do, it's part of my job, but you want to bring your kids up the right way and give them everything - to be there for them and have that connection.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

As a new mother, you're so vulnerable and make mistakes all the time. I guess there's more pressure when you're in the public eye, but I'd never stand by and let anyone exploit my daughter.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.