SINGER Joss Stone has revealed she no longer shares a bed with her husband after just 18 months of marriage.
The pop star, 37, who sharesthree children with her husband Cody DaLuz, have very different bedtime routines.
While Joss does the “night shift” and gets their sons six-month-old Bear, Shackleton, two, and daughter Violet, three, ready for bed – Cody instead spends his nights watching horror films in another bedroom.
Speaking about why they sleep separately, Joss said: “It can work – I should hope so, because I sleep with my daughter Violet now.
“Cody watches horror movies. Every now and then I'll wake up and I'll go in and give him a little cuddle.”
Joss said she prefers to sleep in the same room as daughter Violet to avoid waking her husband during “the rearing stage” at home.
“It's so crazy – we have so many children, I have to make sure that they stay asleep without screaming. So this is a children's scenario,” she said.
“I'm like, I'm not going to be in there, waking [Cody] up every five minutes. I go in with my baby Violet who, by the way, will not go to sleep unless I'm there – that's probably my fault, but I love that – and then I do my whole night shift. But it's crazy.'
“People are like, ‘Oh, that's so bad!' But I'm still not going in there because he watches horror movies. I'm not doing that.”
Despite the lack of bedroom time, the pair still manage to fit some quality time together to keep the spark alive.
She said on the latest episode of her podcast,A Cuppa Love, she went on to say: “We find time to be romantic with each other.
“It can work if you are romantic with each other – if you're not sleeping in the same room, and that's your only time for romance, then it's a problem.
“You've gotta be like, ‘I love you babe but I'm going back in the other room because you're watching a slasher movie. Goodbye. I'll see ya later! I'll see you when I pop her out and get my body back.”‘
“Because we tour and spend so much time in a hotel room on our own, we get that peace – we're like, oh we don't mind. Also, Cody was away for months at a time.
“It's because of his job, previously, as well. When I met him he was out in Iraq, contracting, doing security. So we were on FaceTime all the time. We're completely linked. So he was out for three months at a time, sleeping in a tiny little… almost like a prison room. And he had his own spot and he was cool. He's very good in his own company.”
Joss, who shot to famein late 2003 with the release of her debut album, The Soul Sessions, said she can also be a chatterbox at night, which is another reason for their separate bedrooms.
She continued: “For me, I love a chat at night time, and he's like, ‘Jesus Christ, Joss, it's past nine o'clock, I'm going to bed! Can you shut up?'
“I actually wrote a song about that. It is crazy but it sort of works.
“Cody was actually saying, you know, there is this whole thing with marriage… he says things like, ‘Partners that work out together, stay together'.
“So when we get the chance, instead of going on a date – he loves the gym – we go and work out. I don't even work out but I'll do it because he likes it.
“I sometimes will just get on him and he'll stand up. He gets his workout, he gets his glutes done, and I'm like, “Great, that was fun”. It's about finding what works for you individually.'
She added: “I think it's important to just try to nurture being in love. I know that's really hard past a certain amount of years, but there are little tips and tricks – like that six-second kiss. It's a small thing that you can do. It can start something.
“And also the hug – if you can hold onto somebody for a while, it heals a part of you… A hug is so important. If you don't have hugs it really is sad.”
In December Joss revealed she is – just weeks after .
The Super Duper Lovesingerappeared absolutely stunned when she announced the happy news to fans.
She posted a montage of selfies showing her bewildered reaction to the news, writing over the top: “The one where mummy finds out”.
– who was pregnant with her first child when she wonin 2021 – captioned her post: “Honestly. Shocked was an understatement.
“Nothing and no one can take our joy now. We are so chuffed !!!! Maybe we should call the ‘less is more tour the preggo tour.”
The star, who is already a mother to her three-year-old daughter, and, two, recentlywith husband Cody DaLuz.
