Officials bar Nigella from flying to US

TV cook Nigella Lawson has been stopped from flying to the United States after she confessed to taking cocaine.

The 54-year-old was barred from boarding a flight from Heathrow to Los Angeles at the weekend.

At the trial of her and ex-husband Charles Saatchi’s personal assistants the self-styled “domestic goddess” admitted taking the class A drug.

The mother-of-two told jurors that she took cocaine with her late husband John Diamond when he found out he had terminal cancer and in 2010 when she claimed she was being ”subjected to intimate terrorism“ by Mr Saatchi.

An eyewitness told the Daily Mail that Lawson attempted to board a British Airways flight from London on Sunday morning but was turned away.

“She didn’t seem to say much but she did not look happy,” the onlooker said. “She could not get on the flight so she had to turn around and leave.”