Nigella Lawson praised the #MeToo campaign this weekend, saying how it marks a progression.

Talking at the Sydney Opera House this weekend, the celebrity chef thinks that the tide has changed since she was younger. Lawson divorced her art dealer husband, Charles Saatchi, in 2013 after he was photographed allegedly choking her outside a restaurant. He initially described the incident as a "playful tiff", but later accepted a common assault caution.

“It’s also very good that young women are brought up perhaps to fight and to feel they must stand up for themselves," she said, according to the Guardian.

"I think certainly women of my generation were always encouraged to make men feel good about themselves, and I don’t mean we were taught to acquiesce, but in perhaps shunning any overture, we were always told we mustn’t make a man feel bad about anything ... I think that it’s good that a generation of women who aren’t being brought up to think the most important thing is the man feels OK about having made a pass at someone and been rejected.”

The couple had been married for 10 years before their highly publicised split. Lawson also talked about sexism in the restaurant business.

“It’s important to remember that this affects women in every line of work, and in very unglamorous lines of work too, where they don’t have voices to complain," she said. "I think that it’s important that those women’s lives are being paid attention to and being safeguarded.”