Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson was iced out of a weekend flight from London to Los Angeles because of her past cocaine use.
The beloved “How To Be A Domestic Goddess” author was alone at Heathrow Airport Sunday morning when she was barred from boarding a British Airways flight bound for Tinseltown, according to a Wednesday report.
“She didn’t seem to say much, but she did not look happy,” an unidentified onlooker reportedly said.
“She could not get on the flight so she had to turn around and leave.”
Lawson reportedly passed security when she was told the embarrassing news and had to return to the first-class check-in area to get her baggage back.
The Daily Mail said the exact reasons why she was barred were not revealed but connected the incident to her highly publicized court confession last year that she snorted cocaine seven times and smoked pot in front of her kids.
Lawson’s publicist, lawyer and various agents did not immediately respond to requests for comment late Wednesday.
A spokeswoman for Lawson’s Los Angeles-based cooking show “The Taste,” which airs on ABC, also did not respond.
Reached Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles, a producer of “The Taste” said she knew “nothing” about the alleged incident and couldn’t comment.
Lawson, 54, posted a Twitter message Monday saying she would be “off line for a while enjoying the ultimate; a holiday break with no signal.”
The brunette beauty has endured a tough year since her private life was thrust into the spotlight.
Her marriage to Charles Saatchi, 70, imploded last June when disturbing photos surfaced of the multi-millionaire mogul with his hand around her neck at a London restaurant.
The couple split up, and Lawson was later forced to testify at the fraud trial of former assistants Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo, where she was grilled over accusations of drug abuse.
Lawson confirmed she had tried cocaine and “smoked the odd joint” in the past to cope with the death of her first husband, John Diamond, and the “intimate terrorism” of Saatchi.
“I did not and do not have a drug problem. I had a life problem. I decided to address that,” she told the court.
The Grillo sisters were ultimately cleared by a London jury and Lawson later described the trial as “mortifying” during an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
