Nigella: I’ve cut my drinking – it just makes me anxious
SHE often includes alcohol in her indulgent recipes.
But Nigella Lawson has revealed she has cut back on drinking as it tends to ‘exacerbate’ her anxiety.
The TV chef, 58, said that although alcohol helps to ease her woes at first, it leaves her with a ‘horrible tight feeling of worry’.
Speaking on Jessie Ware’s Table Manners podcast, Miss Lawson said she now only occasionally drinks wine when she goes out for dinner. ‘If I have even two glasses of wine it makes my blood sugar go up. So I will often go out for dinner and if I have wine I will have to eat something when I get back.’
She added: ‘I’m quite an anxious person and drink can really exacerbate that. It gets rid of it at first, but then afterwards [there’s] that horrible tight feeling of worry and just generally not feeling quite right.’