Nigella Lawson expresses anxiety about emerging from lockdown, saying she has become ‘utterly content with desocialisation’

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nigella Lawson has expressed her anxiety over emerging from lockdown as restrictions continue to be lifted, explaining that she feels there is no room for the “psychological clutter of other people”. “Yes, a part of that is a fear of the health risk involved, but I know really it’s because I have become utterly content with my desocialisation. Looking forward to a time in the very near future when people will start leaving their homes more to socialise, Lawson wrote that “rather than finding solitary confinement alienating, it’s what has always passed for real life that seems so unnatural to me now”. “And so – in words I never thought I’d utter – I’m going on a diet: the 5/2, only with people, rather than food.” She explained that she intends to spend either two evenings a week or two lunches at the weekend socialising with other people, where she will “pretend to be a normal person, letting those strange entities, people, into the garden, and apply myself to learning how to have conversation again”.