14 DAY TRIAL // Nigella Lawson had a very rough couple of months to round up 2013 but she’s not about to wallow in self-pity or lament her cruel fate on television. In an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America, the celebrity chef and TV personality pointed out that there are people out there with far bigger problems than her own.
Below is an excerpt from the interview, which was meant to promote a brand new season of the cooking show The Taste, which features Nigella on the panel of judges.
Last year, Nigella saw her marriage to Charles Saatchi crumble to pieces amidst talk of domestic abuse and then, as if that weren’t bad enough, in a defrauding trial Saatchi filed against 2 of her former PAs, she was exposed as an occasional drug user and was forced to admit to snorting cocaine and smoking pot in front of her children.
She and Saatchi lost the case, and Nigella came very close to losing her career as well. Surely that would be reason enough for anyone to launch on a “woe me” diatribe, but Nigella chooses to go down a different path.
“I have to be honest, to have not only your private life but distortions of your private life put on display is mortifying. But there are people going through an awful lot worse and to dwell on any of it would be self-pity and I don’t like to do that,” she says.
“My only desire really was to protect my children as much as possible, which I couldn’t do, but that’s what I wanted to do,” Nigella continues.
Since that failed, she says, she finds consolation in the thought that there’s always pie.
Always a foodie, the star admits to eating “a lot of chocolate” to recover from the split from Saatchi and the more recent events from the defrauding trial. “[And I] had a very good Christmas and I’m into the New Year,” she adds with typical optimism.
