Martha Stewart shot back after a reporter, whom she falsely asserted was dead in her new Netflix documentary, Martha, responded to the homemaking businesswoman and author.
Midway through Martha, the 83-year-old recounted her ImClone stock insider trading trial, which was extensively covered by New York Post reporter Andrea Peyser.
“New York Post lady was there, just looking so smug,” said Stewart. “She had written horrible things during the entire trial. But she is dead now, thank goodness. And nobody has to put up with the crap she was writing all the time.”
But Peyser, who’s very much alive, slammed Stewart in a NY Post response to her “uncredited cameo” in doc, which she titled, “Hey Martha Stewart, you gloated about the death of a Post columnist — but I’m alive, bitch!” The reporter also wrote that the news of her ‘death’ came as a “shock.”Play
“But rather than feeling angry or worried that Martha has offed me, or to seek an emergency order of protection, I am overwhelmingly sad in the face of Martha’s bitterness,” Peyser wrote in the column.
At one point, Peyser venomously wrote that Stewart “has never accepted responsibility for committing felonies that stood to damage the American financial system.”
In refusing to let Peyser have the last word, Stewart referred to the reporter during an Thursday (Nov. 7) appearance at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women.
“She wrote this very scathing article today in the New York Post — my favorite newspaper,” she said of Peyser, per People.
After reading the biting headline, Stewart joked, “So, that will probably cause more people to watch my documentary.”
In a Vulture piece, Peyser relished that she’s been living “rent-free” in Stewart’s thoughts since the entrepreneur was convicted of fraud as part of the insider trading scandal in 2004. Stewart served five months at a minimum-security women’s prison, followed by five months of home confinement, and two years of probation.
