Grillo sisters praise 'loved' Nigella "She is well loved": Francesco Grillo, pictured right, with her sister Elisabetta Grillo, said of Nigella Lawson. London: Nigella Lawson's former personal assistants have said they may have won their legal battle but the celebrity chef has won the hearts of the British public. Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo spoke to ITV This Morning following their acquittal last month on charges of fraudulently using company credit cards, spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on designer goods for themselves, while working as personal assistants to Lawson and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi. But the Italian sisters claimed every purchase had been approved by their former bosses and were found not guilty after jurors at Isleworth Crown Court deliberated for nine hours. Looking towards the future: Nigella Lawson on US TV show Good Morning America. We have won the court case but definitely she had the most support from the public. She is well loved and she will always be loved and I am sure she will be fine," Francesca Grillo, 35, told the program. She is great at what she is doing and I wish her all the best. Lawson said last week that her "only desire" during the trial had been to protect her children but "alas I couldn't always do." The mother-of-two appeared on US TV show Good Morning America to promote her new show but was also asked about the court case, which saw her face allegations of drug-taking. Asked what it was like to be a witness in the trial, Lawson told the program: "I can't really remember exactly because you're so focused on answering the questions to the best of your ability that actually you don't really have an enormous awareness of yourself. Maybe that's a good thing. My only desire really was to protect my children as much as possible which ... alas I couldn't always do. Lawson added that having details of her acrimonious split from millionaire art dealer Saatchi talked about in court under the glare of the world's media was "mortifying." "To have not only your private life but distortions of your private life put on display is mortifying, but there are people going through an awful lot worse and to dwell on any of it would be self pity and I don't like to do that," she said. But she said that she was looking towards the future. "Actually since then I've eaten a lot of chocolate, had a very good Christmas and am into the New Year," the food writer added. Lawson admitted during the trial that she took cocaine with her late husband John Diamond when he found out he had terminal cancer, and in 2010 when she claimed she was being "subjected to intimate terrorism" by Saatchi. Police are to review her admission that she took the prohibited drug. The self-styled "domestic goddess" was appearing on the breakfast show to talk about The Taste, which is being broadcast in the UK and has been described as MasterChef meets The Voice.