Nigella Lawson Divorce: Charles Saatchi Announces Split From Food Network Star Via Newspaper

Finally, the troubled marriage of Food Network's Nigella Lawson and her husband Charles Saatchi has me to an end. In an interesting twist, Saatchi announced the split via a statement in the Daily Mail.

The statement comes after Saatchi was photographed grabbing Lawson's neck at a restaurant in June. Though Saatchi turned himself in and received a warning for assault, the couple has not spoken since. 

Saatchi issued the following statement and has filed for divorce:

"I am sorry to announce that Nigella Lawson and I are getting divorced.

This is heartbreaking for both of us as our love was very deep, but in the last year we have become estranged and drifted apart.

I feel that I have clearly been a disappointment to Nigella over the last year or so, and I am disappointed that she was advised to make no public comment to explain that I abhor violence of any kind against women, and have never physically abused her in any way.

The row photographed at Scott's restaurant could equally have been Nigella grasping my neck to hold my attention- as indeed she has done in the past, although not in front of Scott's with a photographer snapping away.

I must stress again my actions were not violent. We are instinctively tactile people. Yes, my hands were around her neck, and they had been touching her arm. Difficult as it may be to believe for those who have seen the pictures, there was no pressure applied to her.

In fact it was merely a gesture- one to which a still photograph gives a wholly different and incorrect implication.

Nigella has given a statement to the police to support this view.

I am sorry that we had a row. I am sorry she was upset. I am even more sorry that this is the end of our marriage.

I wish Nigella only the best for her future, and for her continuing global success.

She remains the most wonderful woman in the world. I feel very fortunate to have had such a lovely wife for many years."

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