Nigella Lawson has been banned from entering the United States.
The TV chef was about to board a flight to Los Angeles to a guest-star as a judge on The Taste, when she was advised that she would not be allowed to enter the country on account of her admission to using cocaine.
Lawson was in court last month when she confessed that she has used cocaine in the past. British authorities decided not to act on the admission, but America has been much harsher.
A witness at Heathrow airport told Daily Mail that Lawson was turned back at the security gates as she made her way to board the LA-bound flight. She left her bags at the first-class check-in.
“She didn’t seem to say much, but she did not look happy,” the witness said. “She could not get on the flight so she had to turn around and leave.”
American authorities reserve the right to ban tourists if they have admitted to drug use, even if they haven’t been convicted.
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That's just ridiculous!!!
I bet her ex Saatchi (or whatever his name is) will be allowed in, despite photographic evidence if his brutality to her, but I bet they don't have laws against unconvicted wife beaters being allowed into their country.
I think if he goes there and they let him in there should be a protest, because whilst I am against drugs, I think a violent person is far more a problem than someone who takes drugs.
Maybe she took the drugs because of the stress of living with him (and trying to get over her previous husbands horrible death), seems like she has been continually punished lately and that b.. has got away scot free. Wonder if he pulled some strings so that the US didn't let her in, because they would normally ignore this stuff.