Sturgeon comes out fighting full of contradictions
The former first minister was full of contradictions
Nicola Sturgeon initially showed her strength as a political operator in the Laura Kuenssberg interview.
Smartly she chose a UK media outlet to give the interview to. This made it easier for her to brush away questions, rather than face a journalist who works on Scottish politics day in and day out and would be over every minute detail.
Ms Sturgeon came across very reasonable at first, saying she could understand why people might have thought she would know about her estranged husband's embezzlement, and that she might even have thought so herself if she were on the outside.
The former first minister was nearly crying when discussing a necklace Mr Murrell had bought her, which turned out to be one of the embezzled items.
As ever, she came out fighting when putting across her side of the argument.
But she was also full of contradictions and showed no real desire to accept any blame.
She said she “doesn’t like victim terminology” because she is a “working class girl from the West of Scotland” but said she was “feeling as if I'm serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit.”
The former first minister was also pedantic when asked about members of the National Executive Committee quitting because they weren’t given full access to the accounts.
She brazenly said none of their concerns was about embezzlement and said she had not stopped anyone raising concerns.
Ms Sturgeon was also annoyed at the suggestion that she could contribute to compensating members.
The whole interview showed that Ms Sturgeon - despite being one of the strongest politicians Scotland has ever seen - missed the point.
Every normal punter knew that having a married couple as party leader and chief executive was a recipe for disaster.
Ms Sturgeon may have said that she wishes she had never kept Mr Murrell on when she became party leader in 2014.
But she has never accepted that not doing this - along with her centralising power and refusing to accept internal critics - are what created such a culture in the SNP.