The Food Network star, 54, recently appeared on Samah Dada’s YouTube show, “On the Menu,” and recalled asking now-disgraced chef Mario Batali to write the foreword for her 2005 cookbook, “Everyday Italian.” However, Batali’s comments in the book were far from kind.

Giada De Laurentiis is calling out Mario Batali for comments she claims he made in the original foreword to her book Everyday Italian. “This is a person we’re not supposed to talk about, but we’re going to,” De Laurentiis said during an appearance on Samah Dada’s YouTube show, On the Menu.

Giada De Laurentiis recalled Mario Batali's alleged comment on her body while writing her first cookbook, 'Everyday Italian'