Lawson faces police probe over drug use

Police in Britain said they are reviewing evidence that TV cook Nigella Lawson took cocaine.

Lawson faces police probe over drug use

Claims that the self-styled Domestic Goddess was a habitual cocaine and cannabis user emerged during the trial of two personal assistants who were cleared last Friday of defrauding Lawson and her ex-husband, the millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi.

Lawson, aged 53, insisted during the trial that she was not addicted to drugs and had only used cocaine and cannabis occasionally in the past. London’s Metropolitan Police said after the verdict that they would not be investigating the drug claims.

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