Nigella must have a hidden ageing portrait in her attic

[Housewife2010]

She looked amazing today & 20 years younger than her true age.

When he had her hands round her throat I bet the first thing that crossed her mind was 'never mind I look bloody gorgeous and my forehead is line free!'

Don't care if she's used drugs past or present, no one deserves to be abused and mistreated by anyone

I think she's shown grace and dignity with the way she has handled this cringe worthy saga.

My last post was directed at notcontent btw

Sorry Val. I did for a moment think that I was being shallow to comment on her vanity related stuff rather than what is priority for her at the moment. Sadly, having good looks like having money doesn't mean that you are immune to unhappiness. Agree.

I think she looks amazing. I also think the scum she was married to has spectacularly fucked up with this smear campaign against her. The more I hear the more I hate him, I am sure many others feel the same.

What I can't get my head round is why she'd stay with him when she had the independent means to leave. I can't get my head round that at all. Mind you I was shocked when she married him tbh. I totally get why someone can be trapped in an abusive relationship if they have no way of supporting themselves and getting out.

All I can think of is that he threatened her with all sorts and I don't mean just physically.

Just musing out loud...

Arf@gold make up

She looks like she has had a Sophie Loren makeover tbh

Not a good look Nigella. Her lips turn down at the sides. A shame as she really was naturally beautiful. I think she's ruined her looks.

Diddledumpling - I totally agree. She looked like she was going to a funeral. What's wrong with her mouth ? Why does it look so disproportionately large compared with her face. She had dyed her hair and looked creepy, sorry, she looked like a corpse.

How the hell anyone could find that attractive is beyond me. In her earlier years, before she became the size of a bus, fair enough. The photo of her going to court is one of the most unflattering picture I've seen of her. That includes that full body suit she wore while swimming in Australia a couple of years ago.

I personally think he can't bear to lose her and he would rather destroy her and himself with her, if necessary, than let her go and be happy. Fair enough, nigella herself has admitted to using drugs but I think all this addiction nonsense (and indeed bringing the drugs stuff out in the first place) is just a way to try and ruin her career (and yes, the British public has really shown their love for her but I do wonder how she'll get on with her US career ... I hope it will be fine but it's a gamble I guess). I do think domestically its backfired though as now she's on the witness stand she can say what she likes without fear of being sued by him.

Housewife2010 - do you want to borrow my glasses ?

Charming post there ghettoprincess

Cocaine isn't an entry level drug. So, we can sympathise with a millionaire celebrity married to another celebrity millionaire when she self medicates with illicit drugs to ease the burden of being in an abusive relationship.

However, the same scenario played out between two people who's faces the general public does not recognise, living on benefits are considered to be a scourge by society.

Sorry, when it comes to the former, I don't buy it.

What does entry level drug mean?

Cocaine is rarely, I guess, used by people who have never ever taken illicit drugs before. It's got to by starting on softer drugs.

Smoking a joint i.e. weed and/or cannabis is a habit that can start easily enough. Harder drugs are required as the body gets used to it.

Then a hard drug such as cocaine is required.

I've only ever tried three drugs

-I once tried speed, it made me very argumentative. Once was enough.

• I've tried cocaine probably three times, it never had much of an effect so didn't bother again.

-Every few months I'm happy to take a puff on a joint, I like the nice chilled feeling.

That's the extent of my drugs career, illustrated only to demonstrate that these days cocaine is everywhere, it's no longer seen as an illicit A class drug that belongs to hard core druggies.

Oh yeah, I accept that cocaine was once a, 'dinner party drug'. It was fashionable to, 'do a line' after eating along with coffee and liqueurs. Whether it was done out of irony or because the cost of cocaine had dropped, I don't know.

As you say, cocaine is everywhere. However, and this is not meant as a criticism of squoosh, that, in itself does not make it acceptable.

Oh, please!

Cocaine pretty much is an entry level drug in certain London media circles, which I dare say Nigella is exposed to.

Cocaine is/was an entry level drug for many a clubber back in the 90s and 00s. And this 'harder drugs are required' nonsense is just that: nonsense.

As unpalatable as it may be to some, it is perfectly possible to sustain a recreational use of drugs like cocaine - without needing to start on something else previously, move onto anything harder, nor become addicted.

I'm not for one minute recommending nor condoning that; merely saying it most certainly is possible. Much the same as enjoying a few glasses of champagne as and when the desire takes a person, without it necessarily descending into full-blown alcoholism.

I suppose this might be quite shocking to some. But I wager there are screeds of people out there who indulge in a line or two when the fancy takes them, who are in no way whatsoever addicted to drugs.

I don't take it as a criticism Ghetto. But I don't attach a moral aspect to drug taking, aside from the irony of organic, fair trade types snorting loads of muled coke. Yes, it's undeniable that the drug trade heaps misery on people lower down than the economic chain.

But drugs in themselves as a mind altering substance, I don't understand the outrage.

Thanks.

JapaneseMargaret doesn't need to read this as it's a bit more nonsense.

Well as long as those self same drug takers haven't been addicted for all the years that drugs have, 'taken their fancy' then that's ok, they're not addicts.

Thank you for clearing that up.

Are we still going on about this farce? I think they're as bad as each other, personally.

Whoa TZT ! Sorry, but I draw the line at that. Saachi grabbing her by the neck. SHE DIDN'T FLINCH ! BASICALLY, SHE WAS USED TO IT. Pushing her nose back - that is how you control and animal.

All I was saying is that I have a problem with her getting sympathy for her drug taking when an anonymous abused spouse on a sink estate would get ignored.

Why is there an assumption that drug-takers are drug addicts?

There is no such assumption when it comes to alcohol.

I don't have anything to do with drugs for exactly the reasons squoosh outlines - i.e. its effects on the communities where it is produced, and the people who transport it. So while it is illegal, it is off-limits, as far as I am concerned.

But as a substance in and of itself, I have no issue with it. Certainly no more issue than I have with alcohol (which is: no issue).