Chef Gordon Ramsay's wife has professed her support for the "Kitchen Nightmares" host amid a legal battle with her own family. According to a report from Daily Mail, Tana Ramsay said her father, Christopher Hutcheson, is guilty of defrauding her reality star husband.

Chef Gordon Ramsay's spouse of 14 years expressed: "The knowledge that my father and brother had been systematically defrauding my husband was extremely distressing to me."

"My father was someone, in my opinion, who was very, very clever at times at giving enough information to satisfy, but never all," Tana Ramsay said.

The mother-of-four narrated: "I think certainly when Gordon asked questions or sort of wanted to know things, sometimes it would be a case of my father keeping him incredibly busy or out of the country with not enough time to be told everything."

Tana Ramsay also explained that her husband does not understand much of the financial aspects of their restaurant business. As a result, Christopher Hutcheson was hired by his son-in-law as business manager for the Ramsay group of companies.

However, he and his son, Adam, were fired by the chef in 2010 for gross misconduct. "Since the departure of my father and my brother from the business it has been a huge upheaval, but certainly myself I feel very comfortable with what the company has become," Tana Ramsay said.

She added: "Whilst not immediately, it is certainly more transparent and it is on a much more solid basis."

The distraught wife of Chef Gordon Ramsay said: "I don't really speak to my father since he left the company unless it is concerning his grandchildren - we certainly don't have any comfortable conversations."

According to an earlier report from Daily Mail, the "Hell's Kitchen" star is claiming that Christopher Hutcheson forged his signature to secure a rental agreement for a new restaurant.

As a result of allegedly having his signature copied, the culinary master turned reality star is being held accountable for a £640,000-a-year rental agreement for a lease on York & Albany pub near Regent's Park. The contract for the said London restaurant will run for 25 years.

Chef Gordon Ramsay insists the use of his signature on the contract was unauthorized, and was copied by his father-in-law through a machine which replicates human handwriting.

The notoriously frank chef took the issue to High Court in hopes of securing a declaration that will unbind him from the rental contract.

The Daily Mail reported that Chef Gordon Ramsay claims his "deep and extensive trust in Hutcheson was entirely misplaced."