Art collector Charles Saatchi is divorcing his wife celebrity chef Nigella Lawson four weeks after shocking photographs emerged showing him appearing to choke her outside a London restaurant Saatchi has revealed.
The 70 year old announced his decision in a bombshell public statement to the Mail on Sunday under the headline I'm divorcing you Nigella after he accused her of failing to defend him after the horrific incident.
John Gordon The couple were seen looking quite distraight after their very animated conversation in June that ended with Saatchi photographed holding his hand around his wife's neck.I feel that I have clearly been a disappointment to Nigella during 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 abused her physically in any way Saatchi said.
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John Gordon As the couple made their way home from the London restaurant in June Lawson a multimillionaire cookery writer and TV presenter was seen crying and trying to cover her face.The newspaper claimed Lawson a multimillionaire cookery writer and TV presenter was not aware of her husband's planned divorce ultimatum before the article's publishing Sunday.
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 he continued.
Charlie Purvey / Splash News/Charlie Purvey / Splash News Five days after the incident Lawson was seen more composed as she strut past surrounding photographers swarming her with questions about the alleged physical assault.On June 9 Saatchi was photographed grasping his 53 year old wife of 10 years by her throat before additionally squeezing her nose shut with his other hand.
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Mirrorpix / Splash News/Mirrorpix / Splash News Charles Saatchi is similarly seen days after the alleged photographed assault he's since claimed was harmless and was nothing different from what she's done to him.Any physical danger the photographs may have depicted Lawson being in is wholly different and incorrect he said.
He claims there was no pressure applied and It was merely a gesture one Lawson has performed on him too he told the paper.
Legge/ Warner / Splash News/Legge/ Warner / Splash News In the days after the photographs' publishing moving men were seen outside the family's home in Chelsea with the couple said to have since separated and Lawson to be no longer wearing her wedding ring.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 Saatchi said.
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Saatchi a former advertising executive who owns London's Saatchi Gallery for contemporary art accepted a police caution immediately after the incident.
He ends his statement by calling her the most wonderful woman in the world. I feel very fortunate to have had such a lovely wife for many years.
There was no immediate statement by Lawson a mother of two children from a previous marriage to journalist John Diamond who died from cancer in 2001.
Since the incident she has been photographed without her wedding ring.
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