The very public disintegration of the marriage of Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson continued on Sunday when the multimillionaire art collector issued a statement to a newspaper saying he was divorcing the TV chef.
Former advertising executive Saatchi 70 who accepted a police caution after photographs were published showing him with his hand around his wife's neck during a row outside Scott's restaurant Mayfair on 16 June told the Mail on Sunday 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 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.
He said his hands were around her neck but no pressure was applied it was a gesture to hold her attention and could equally have been Nigella grasping my neck to hold my attention as she has done in the past although not in front of Scott's with a photographer snapping away . The still photograph gives a wholly different and incorrect implication his statement said and Lawson had given a statement to the police to support this view. Lawson left the couple's home in Chelsea shortly after the incident and reportedly has been refusing to answer texts and voicemails from her husband.
Saatchi added I am sorry that we had a row. I am sorry that she was upset. I am even more sorry that this is the end of our marriage.
Saatchi who married Lawson his third wife 10 years ago following the death of her first husband John Diamond 47 from throat cancer in 2001 wished her the best for the future and her continuing global success and said he felt very fortunate to have had such a lovely wife for many years .
As Saatchi was vilified as a wife beater and Lawson portrayed as a victim of domestic violence he voluntarily went to Charing Cross police station and accept a police caution. He later made an ill judged comment to the London Evening Standard where he is a columnist describing the incident as a playful tiff and that he had accepted the caution to prevent the incident hanging over them .
Lawson had subsequently been pictured without her wedding ring.
The Mail on Sunday said Lawson 53 was not aware pre publication of the divorce ultimatum being issued by her husband . Later Lawson's spokesman said there was no comment from her.
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