Nigella: I’ve cut drinking as it makes me anxious
SHE often includes alcohol in her indulgent recipes.
But Nigella Lawson has cut back on drinking as it tends to ‘exacerbate’ her anxiety.
The TV chef, 58, said that while 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: ‘If I have even two glasses of wine it makes my blood sugar go up and then I need to have lots of food.
‘I often go out for dinner and if I have wine I will have to eat something when I get back.’
She added: ‘I’ve never been a big drinker. I do like it. I do try to because sometimes I think if you don’t drink, after the first hour of a party you’re in a different room from everyone else and that can be difficult.
‘I feel I’m quite an anxious person and drink can really exacerbate that anxiety.
‘It gets rid of it at first but then afterwards, that horrible tight feeling of worry and generally not feeling quite right.’
Miss Lawson claimed alcohol ‘just does something to me’ but said it could be ‘an age thing, too’.
The chef, a mother of two, recently admitted she has become a ‘grumpy old woman’ as she nears her 60th birthday.
‘I have turned into one of those people’, she told an audience at the Leicester Square Theatre.
‘I do a lot of turning round and tutting. The sort of thing that my grandmother would have done and would have really embarrassed me, not minding about how “grumpy old woman” I seem.’
‘Grumpy old woman’