Nigella Lawson’s former assistants say they feel no guilt about forcing the celebrity chef to confess to drug use.
Italian sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo were acquitted of fraudulently using company credits cards and spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on designer goods for themselves while working as personal assistants to Lawson and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi.
The Grillo sisters said every purchase had been approved by their former bosses.
Jurors at a London court found the pair not guilty of the charges after deliberating for nine hours.
They said while it had been “tough” for Lawson to spend two days in the witness box at their fraud trial, it was harder for them not knowing if they were to be jailed.
Elisabetta told ITV’s This Morning show she did not feel guilty about Lawson’s drug confession.
“I feel sorry that we ended up in that situation; that she did admit to that.
“But no, not guilty, because it was nothing to do with me; it’s her life.”
Lawson admitted during the trial 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 Saatchi.
Police are to review her admission that she took the prohibited drug.
Francesca said Lawson was brave to admit her drug use, but that was not why they were in court.
