MALVEAUX: Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson testified today that she is ashamed of using cocaine. She took the stand for a second day. This is in the trial of her two, former personal assistants. They're actually accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands from her billionaire ex-husband's company credit cards.</s>HOLMES: Yeah, a bit over a million dollars, it was, in total.</s>MALVEAUX: Wow.</s>HOLMES: But the trial just sort of branched out into, well, airing dirty laundry. Lawson has said she was bullied by her ex- into testifying against the assistants and her drug use has come out in the testimony that relates to the case. Erin McLaughlin has been following it from outside the courtroom. This is in west London. Yeah, another sort of tawdry day in court, what did we hear?</s>ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Michael. Just a short while ago we saw Nigella Lawson leave the courthouse concluding a second and final day of testimony. During the testimony, she faced more allegations from the defense of habitual cocaine use, this time the defense claiming that she kept the drug inside her jewelry box, defense also claiming that a drug dealer would come out to her house, claims she responded to by saying, quote, "I have never known or seen a drug dealer in my life. I was given them." She also went on to say, quote, "People who are regular cocaine users do not look like this," gesturing at her body and face.
Lawson Testifies Ashamed of Cocaine Use