Renowned TV chef and domestic goddess Nigella Lawson continues to go under fire for her now confirmed drug use. Called out by Italian sisters Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, who were her former personal assistants, Lawson admitted to have experiences with cocaine and marijuana though blatantly denies claims that she is an addict.

She confirms and enumerates the times when she used these drugs but say that under no circumstances has she abused them. Nigella Lawson's drug use first started with her first husband, John Diamond. She recounts that when Diamond was ill, they took cocaine together as a form of release. She owned up to using the drug about six times until Diamond died of cancer in 2001.

The Examiner reports that Lawson's more recent troubles could be traced back to her marriage with reclusive millionaire husband Charles Saatchi. The pair were photographed with Saatchi's hands on Lawson's throat, a photograph that caused the TV personality to flee their home. During the course of their separation, Lawson says that Saatchi threatened to make her look bad in the public eye if she does not come back to him. She says that Saatchi is on a terrifying path with intent to ruin her and is a manipulative control freak.

Nigella Lawson also stated that her personal drug use up to date stemmed heavily from the last year of her marriage to Saatchi. On July 2010, while in the process of divorcing herself from Saatchi, she says that she took cocaine which was offered to her by a friend and smoked marijuana periodically.

Ace Showbiz has also reported that Lawson vehemently denies any allegations of being a drug addict, "the idea that I am a drug addict or habitual user of cocaine is absolutely ridiculous." "I have to say, since freeing myself from a brilliant but brutal man, I'm now totally cannabis, cocaine, any drug-free. I don't have a drug problem. I have a life problem," she continued.