"This is an aberration," Peter Cook said through a lawyer, according to a column by Cindy Adams that was published yesterday in the New York Post. "I'm sorry. I'm contrite. I'm stupid. Foolish. No excuse."

"He hopes there's no divorce. If she wants one, and he certainly hopes this doesn't happen, but if -- it will not be nasty," [Norman Sheresky] said, according to the Post. "She can have whatever she wants."

"I'll be honest with you, it hurts me more than it hurts her," the 57-year-old R&B singer tells Access Hollywood in an interview that was to air Monday. "I must tell you, I'm the basket case."