British TV chef Nigella Lawson’s admitted drug use has landed in hot water with American authorities — who say she’ll need to measure up if she ever wants to enter the US.
The US Embassy in London confirmed Thursday that the self-styled “Domestic Goddess” was denied permission to board a flight to America on Sunday.
Spokeswoman Lynne Platt also said Lawson was subsequently invited to the embassy to apply for a visa, which British citizens need to work in the US, but not for vacations.
Platt didn’t say why Lawson — a star on ABC’s cooking-competition show “The Taste” — was rejected, but authorities can refuse airline passengers admission to the US for reasons including drug use.
Lawson last year told a London court that she snorted cocaine several times during her life, and also smoked pot near the end of her troubled marriage to advertising mogul and art dealer Charles Saatchi.
She was forced to ‘fess up under oath when she testified at the trial of two former assistants who were acquitted of defrauding her and Saatchi of more than $1 million.
Scotland Yard investigated Lawson afterward but decided not to press charges, saying it didn’t want to prevent others from testifying truthfully in the future.
In a Twitter post dated Monday, Lawson wrote that she would be “Off line for a while enjoying the ultimate; a holiday break with no signal!” but she hasn’t updated her status since then.
Lawson was barred from a first-class British Airways flight to Los Angeles when she arrived at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal Five on Sunday morning, Britain’s Daily Mail reported.
“She didn’t seem to say much, but she did not look happy,” one witness told the paper.
“She could not get on the flight, so she had to turn around and leave.”
US officials have previously denied visas to other celebs over drug issues, including model Kate Moss, who was infamously photographed apparently chopping up and snorting a white powder in shots published in 2005.
Last year, Page Six exclusively reported that the British beauty couldn’t secure permission to attend a party for Playboy magazine’s 60th anniversary issue — which featured her on the cover — due to the “Cocaine Kate” headlines.
The late singer Amy Winehouse also missed out on collecting five Grammy awards in 2008 and had to appear at the ceremony via satellite from London.
Winehouse publicly struggled with cocaine problems before dying of an alcohol overdose in 2011.
Lawson’s publicist declined comment on Thursday. ABC’s “The Taste” capped off its second season in late February, and the network hasn’t decided yet if there’ll be a third edition of a cook-off show.