Nigella Lawson admits she felt 'exposed and under attack'

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Nigella Lawson shared how she felt 'exposed and under attack' when she laid bare the 'traumatic' aftermath of her drug and marriage revelations.

In a new interview with The Irish Times, the cook discussed the 'shame' she felt after the infamous row with Charles Saatchi and confessing in court she took cocaine. 

The 59-year-old told the publication: 'It was generally about feeling exposed and under attack. In a way, it would have been much better for me to be able to speak openly.' 

Nigella's comments refer to when she was pictured in a row with her husband of ten years eating at their favourite restaurant and a trial with her former assistants. 

Shocking photos captured the moment Charles put his hands round a tearful Nigella's throat at their usual table outside Scott's restaurant, in Mayfair in 2013.

Also, Nigella courted controversy when she said she had taken cocaine in a  dramatic courtroom confession in 2014. 

In reference to both incidents, Nigella went on sharing: 'It goes against my nature not to... Everything I went through then, shame, various things, in a way gave me a form of trauma of its own.'