Martha Stewart admits to cheating on her husband in Netflix doc: He never knew

Martha Stewart is making a sizzling confession.In the new Netflix documentary “Martha” by R.J.Cutler, the 83-year-old confesses that she was unfaithful to her ex-husband, Andrew Stewart.“Young women, listen to my advice, if you’re married and your husband starts to cheat on you, he’s a piece of s–t,” Stewart shares in the doc’s trailer that dropped on Thursday.

“Get out of that marriage.”A producer quips, “Didn’t you have an affair early on?”She then admits, “Yeah, but I don’t think Andy ever knew about that.”The pair was married for nearly three decades after tying the knot in 1961.The former couple welcomed their daughter, Alexis Stewart, in 1965 before divorcing in 1990.“Getting divorced was a terrible thing for me, because we were the first to divorce in my family,” Stewart continued.

“And that we haven’t spoken since the divorce is even more painful.But I’m very strong, and I’m very motivated to get on with life.”The docuseries explores Stewart in a series of intimate interviews, tracing her rise from a teen model to an OG influencer and America’s first self-made female billionaire in 1999.Viewers also get to see how the television personality rebranded her image after going to prison for insider trading 2004.“The cookie cutter house and the cookie cutter life, that was not for me,” Stewart said.

“I could’ve just been a miserable, has-been housewife, but I didn’t let that happen to myself.”“I was a trophy for these idiots,” the businesswoman continued about her 2004 sentencing.“Those prosecutors should’ve been put in a Cuisinart and turned on high.”Stewart sold her stake in ImClone Systems, a biopharmaceutical company, in December 2001, which raised eyebrows for investigators.

They questioned her on the trade in early 2002, but she and her stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic, maintained that they had no insider knowledge that prompted the sale. However, federal prosecutors later accused S...