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Martha Stewart Fires Back After Being Declared Dead in Shocking Column: ‘Utterly Petty and Abusive’

 

 

Martha Stewart fires back at NY Post journalist who claimed she was dead: ‘So petty and abusive’


A columnist from the New York Post is responding to Martha Stewart, asserting that she’s very much alive.

 

In “Martha,” a recently released Netflix documentary about her life, Stewart criticized columnist Andrea Peyser, who originally reported on Stewart’s securities fraud trial in 2004 that resulted in her imprisonment. In the documentary, Stewart remarked, “The New York Post lady was there, looking so smug. She wrote terrible things throughout the trial. But thank goodness she is dead now.”

Peyser’s 2004 articles were blunt, as she described Stewart’s appearance with phrases like “dun-colored spike heels and a shapeless smock — looking like a gardener who moonlights as a dominatrix” and accused Stewart of a “carefully scripted pose” as a victim during her trial.

In a recent statement to YSL News, Peyser said, “I should be flattered that I’ve occupied her thoughts all these years — and that she’s clearly a loyal reader of the Post.”

 

On Thursday, Peyser wrote an article titled: “Hey Martha Stewart, you gloated about the death of a Post columnist — but I’m alive, (expletive)!” She referred back to her previous critiques of Stewart, stating, “Even if the Domestic Dominatrix thinks she’s finished me off … two decades later, she’s still imagining my grisly demise.”

 

Peyser added: “I made a stealth appearance in the new Netflix documentary simply titled ‘Martha,’ much like Cher or Osama.” She remarked that Stewart’s depiction in the film seemed quite “petty and abusive,” and referred to her as “an obsessive-compulsive who is mean.”

 

YSL News has reached out to Stewart’s representatives for a response.

 

“Long after her conviction along with insider trader Peter Bacanovic for securities fraud and lying to investigators, she wasn’t thinking about her family, her laid-off employees, her collection of pets, or even her own painful existence,” Peyser continued, emphasizing that Stewart directed her anger at Peyser.

 

Peyser charged that Stewart has never taken “accountability for her actions that hurt the American financial landscape,” referencing Stewart’s notorious five-month prison sentence from October 2004 to March 2005 for misleading federal investigators about a stock sale.

The columnist expressed a sense of “pity” for Stewart, noting, “She’s stunning, talented, and temperamental,” but maintains that “she remains dangerously fixated on someone as insignificant as me.”

Martha Stewart’s recent criticisms follow feuds with ‘Martha’ director and Ina Garten

In the past few months, Stewart has stirred up conflicts with various individuals from her past, including director R.J. Cutler and former friend Ina Garten.

Last month, she criticized Cutler, telling The New York Times that “R.J. had total access, but he really utilized very little,” which she found “shocking.” Stewart also expressed her dislike for certain documentary scenes, particularly mentioning her “hate” for them.

 

“Those last scenes of me appearing like a lonely old lady hunched over in the garden? I told him to remove those. But he refused. I hate those last scenes. I hate them,” she stated.

In September, Snoop Dogg’s close friend remarked on Garten in a profile for The New Yorker, mentioning that Garten ceased communication with her during Stewart’s prison term for insider trading in 2004.

“When I went to Alderson Prison, she stopped being in touch with me,” stated Stewart in an interview with The New Yorker published on September 9. “I found that very upsetting and extremely unfriendly.”

However, Garten recounted to the outlet that their friendship faded as Stewart spent more time at a new property in Bedford, New York.