Nigella Lawson is glad to put the controversies of 2013 behind her.
During an interview with "Good Morning America," Lawson admitted to Amy Robach how mortifying it was to have "distortions of [her] private life put on display" on national television during her fraud trail with her former assistants.
The 53-year-old chef and reality TV personality said to focus on the media stories would be dwelling on self-pity. Lawson admitted to using drugs in the past after losing her first husband. Details of her relationship with ex-husband Charles Saatchi were displayed during the trail.
Sisters Francesca Grillo and Elisabetta Grillo, who worked for the former couple for more than 10 years, claimed Lawson let them use the couple's credit cards for personal use in order to keep quiet about Lawson's drug use.
The sisters were found not guilty of fraud by a London courtroom. The police also revealed they would not be looking into Lawson's past substance abuse.
According to an interview with Radio Times, Lawson revealed how she tapped into her feelings using her culinary skills. While trying to promote her latest project, "The Taste," she expressed that her love for food is what attracted her the most to the project.
"What I liked, not being terribly confrontational as a person, is that because you taste everything blind, you're never making any judgments on a person and you're just talking about the food," she said. "So much of reality TV is the theater of humiliation or in some sense the culture of the breast-heaving back story, so to have a food competition that is actually about the food is...rather pleasant."
Lawson admitted to "GMA" that she has been eating a lot of chocolate since the trail ended.
"I've eaten a lot of chocolate...had a good Christmas, and I'm into the new year," she said.
"The Taste," which features Lawson as a judge alongside Anthony Bourdain, Ludo Lefebvre, Brian Malarkey and Marcus Samuelsson, premieres Thursday, at 8 p.m. on ABC.
