Nigella Lawson opens up about her mother
Nigella Lawson has opened up about her troubled relationship with her mother Vanessa Salmon in revealing new interview.
The charismatic celebrity cook shared what it was like to jump between schools, and what would happen when she and her siblings clashed with her "funny but depressed" mother.
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She told the Financial Times:
"She’d shout at all of us and say, 'I’m going to hit you till you cry,’ and so I never would cry. I still don’t … She just didn’t like me."
Nigella celebrating her success with her father Nigel Lawson in 2008. Source: Getty
One of four children, Nigella said in the interview that her older brother Dominic was beaten by her mother so much that she had to eventually stop because it was hurting her hand too much.
Remembering her unconventional relationship with her father, former Chancellor Nigel Lawson, Nigella suggested that her mother may have been jealous of their relationship:
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"In the evening when I was doing A-levels he’d come home and since he didn’t like drinking alone would say, 'Darling, come and have a drink with me while you’re doing homework, a whisky or a Campari soda," she said.
Nigella also opened up about her mother's death, recalling that her mother had said she was "so relieved you’re grown up, because now, if I want to commit suicide, it won’t matter like it would if you were a child."
"Can you imagine talking to your child like that?" Nigella told the Times.
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"At the end, she said, 'Put in the papers it was cancer, otherwise everyone will think it was suicide, which you and I know it is’."
Vanessa died from liver cancer when Nigella was only 25, and sadly wasn't her only family member to pass away from cancer - her younger sister Thomasina died of breast cancer when Nigella was 32, and Nigella's first husband John Diamond died in 2001 of throat cancer at age 41.
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