Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has apologised over a column written 27 years ago describing a campaigner’s gender-reassignment surgery as “self-mutilation.”
The best-selling cookery writer, 60, offered a personal apology to Christie Elan-Cane, who is non-gendered and uses the pronoun per, after the activist shared a newspaper clipping of the “offensive diatribe” and said Ms Lawson was “no #trans ally of mine.”
“And I am very glad to have the opportunity to apologise,” the food writer replied on Tuesday, about the piece published in the Evening Standard in October 1993.
“While I certainly meant no harm, unfortunately that doesn’t mean I didn’t harm. And I’m sorry. I hope that the past 27 years have been rich and happy ones for you,” she said.
