Nigella back in control in gentle US TV grilling

Nigella Lawson arriving at Isleworth Crown Court London, on Dec 5, 2013, to give evidence in the trial of two former assistants who faced charges of fraud. - Photo EPA

Assured appearance, but show dodges drug issue.

ALMOST a month after she stepped into the witness box and admitted taking cocaine and smoking cannabis, Nigella Lawson has used her first television interview to describe the experience as “mortifying”, to attack the English legal system and to insist that her “only desire” throughout the fraud trial of two former personal assistants was to protect her children.