The Malaysian-born singer was married to wife Sahodra for 55 years before separating earlier this year.

Kamahl made the sad announcement in a new interview with New Idea earlier this month and confessed he’s “praying” for a reconciliation.

Speaking on A Current Affair, the 87-year old said he blames himself and his peculiar addiction to social media for the separation, adding to previous comments about his fame distracting him “from what really matters”.

“I was isolated with my computer,” he said, revealing he was spending up to five hours a day scrolling social media.

“I think she was sick and tired, I’m consumed with politics. I’m tweeting from morning to night … I’m paying a terrible price for it.”

Kamahl, who said his musical inspiration came from being “an incurable romantic”, has gifts waiting for his former wife, but said he’s unsure if she’d want them.

“She might throw it back at me, but I’m going to give it to her anyway,” he said.

“She really is the wind beneath my wings. I now realise I probably wasn’t the most attentive husband.

“Fame can do that – it can distract you from what really matters. But I’m keeping everything crossed we can work through this rough patch, as she really is my everything.

“At the end of the day, I am the sinner. She is the saint.”

Kamahl and Sahodra have two children together – son Rajan, 52, and daughter Rani, 50, who enjoyed a brief pop career in the late ’90s.

He said that despite the split, he and Sahodra “remain close”.

“Thankfully, things are convivial – we see one another regularly. She still cooks me her unbelievably delicious lamb shanks every fortnight,” Kamahl said.

The singer’s latest interview came after his public denouncing of the treatment he was subjected to on Hey Hey It’s Saturday in the 1980s. Resurfaced clips, including one of an unsuspecting Kamahl being ambushed mid-song and hit in the face with a white powder puff, were received poorly online.

Kamahl admitted it “hurt” being subjected to racist jokes on the variety show, pointing out that the same gags wouldn’t have been played out on white performers.

Appearing on Studio 10 this month, he said of the saga: “There is a reason why they did what they did.

“The reason is that I was successful … They couldn’t understand it … It’s a form of envy, jealousy, hate. It was their form of cutting the tall poppy down.

“It hurt, of course it hurt. It’s terrible to be humiliated. I know they wouldn’t hit John Farnham or Jimmy Barnes in the face with a powder puff, but the root of it was I was too successful for them … If I was a nobody, they wouldn’t have done anything.”

As the uproar over the resurfaced clips raged in March this year, Daryl Somers publicly apologised to Kamahl, saying the show “never set out to offend anybody” and that “all members of the Hey Hey team do not condone racism in any form”.