The most shocking revelations of the new Martha Stewart doc that the lifestyle guru called lazy and unfair
As far as Martha Stewart is concerned, the new documentary about her life and career is not a good thing.The lifestyle guru and self-made former billionaire has slammed the film “Martha,” which started streaming Oct.30 on Netflix, as “lazy” and “not the story that makes me, me” at the Retail CEO Influencer Forum in September. “It’s more about my stupid trial, which was so unfair.”And this week, Stewart doubled down in an interview with the Times, insisting that director R.J.
Cutler focuses too much on her 2004 insider trading trial in the movie’s second half. “The trial and the actual incarceration was less than two years out of an 83-year life,” she said.“I considered it a vacation, to tell you the truth.”Indeed, those two years — from her troublesome phone call to her stockbroker as she was en route to Cabo San Lucas all the way to her final day in Alderson prison in West Virginia — take up nearly half of the two-hour doc.Bitter Stewart is irate when she mentions the courtroom drama in the movie, which she participated in, saying the responsible parties, including eventual FBI director James Comey, deserve to be thrown into a blender.“It was so horrifying to me that I had to go through that to be a trophy for these idiots in the US Attorney’s office,” she says of the high-profile trial.
“Those prosecutors should have been put in a Cuisinart and turned on high.I was a trophy — a prominent woman, the first billionaire woman in America.
‘We got her.’”When she begins serving her five-month prison sentence in 2004, actors read aloud her diary entries that criticize the food and staff.“Physical exam,” she says on an entry from her first day.“Stripped of all clothes.
Squat, arms out, cough.Embarrassing.”Then she rails about the limited cafeteria fare available behind bars.“What worries me is the very poor quality of the food,” Stewart wrote from the clink.
“And the unavailability of fresh anything, as t...