Nigella: Courtroom revelations were ‘mortifying’
LONDON (AP) – Nigella Lawson said having her private life raked over in a London courtroom was “mortifying” but she is putting the case behind her.
The celebrity cook testified last month at the fraud trial of two former aides, who were ultimately acquitted of funding a luxury lifestyle with credit cards loaned to them by Lawson and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi.
The trial was overshadowed by allegations about Lawson’s and Saatchi’s domestic life, including claims that Lawson regularly used cocaine.
She denied regular drug use, although she admitted taking cocaine a handful of times.
Lawson also was asked during the trial about a June incident in which Saatchi was photographed grabbing her neck outside a London restaurant. The couple divorced soon afterward.
Lawson, 53, told “Good Morning America” Thursday that “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.”
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Bill Nye “The Science Guy” is set to visit Kentucky to debate evolution and biblical creation with the founder of the Creation Museum.
Ken Ham wrote on his Facebook page Thursday that he will square off Feb. 4 with Nye, the former host of a popular science TV show for youths.
The event is likely to attract plenty of attention in scientific and faith circles, as Nye is a high-profile advocate of science education and Ham is a respected leader among Christians who believe the Bible’s origin story is a factual account of the Earth’s beginnings.
Ham had been hoping to attract the star of TV’s “Bill Nye The Science Guy” to the northern Kentucky museum after Nye said in an online video last year that teaching creationism was bad for children. The video was viewed nearly 6 million times on YouTube.