Following on from our earlier story about “Higella” and her drug use, it has emerged that there was “a culture of secrecy” between Lawson and ex-husband Charles Saatchi.

Just as American TV is airing a promo for her new series, the court case against her two former assistants is really hotting up.

Basically the defendants, the Grillo sisters, claim that Nigella allowed them to spend as much cash as they wanted, so long as Saatchi didn’t find out about either the drugs or the money. Saatchi tells the same story – but Nigella denies it.

This sheds light on the photo below, which was captured at a high-end London restaurant in June.

The strangling had reportedly happened because Saatchi had found out about Nigella’s drug use, and that she had got their 19 year-old daughter hooked on drugs, too.

Anthony Metzer QC, defending the couple’s former employee Elisabetta Grillo, told Isleworth crown court that Miss Lawson’s drug habit was a long-kept secret in the pair’s marriage .

If Mr Saatchi is telling the truth, then Miss Lawson is a habitual criminal. What is clear is that he still maintains and still believes that she is a habitual drug user. That’s clear from the statement he gives.

It is impossible for them both to be telling the truth. The two prosecution witnesses are fundamentally at loggerheads. One of them is telling the truth, the other is not.

[Source : Daily Mail]