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Nigella Lawson, a celebrity chef who admitted hard drug use, was known by her former assistants to have wild mood swings.
Nigella Lawson acted like a “zombie” one minute and a “Duracell bunny” the next, said the Italian sisters cleared Friday of defrauding the TV chef and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi while working as assistants for Lawson.
The Grillo sisters — Francesca and Elisabetta — said on Sunday that Lawson, 53, experienced wild mood swings while strung out on drugs to cope with her broken marriage and demanding work schedule.
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Sisters Francesca (left) and Elisabetta Grillo were found not guilty of defrauding Nigella Lawson and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi on Friday.
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“She’d be this hyperactive Duracell bunny buzzing round the house,” Francesca told the British newspaper The Sun.
“But then she wouldn’t be able to sleep and would turn into a zombie. When you spoke to her it was like there was nothing there, she was vacant.”