Martha Stewart Netflix documentary bombshells, she calls it unfair

As far as Martha Stewart is concerned, it is the new documentary about her life and career not a good thing.

The lifestyle guru and self-made former billionaire slammed the film “Martha,” which began streaming on Netflix on Oct. 30, 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 an interview with De Tijdin which she emphasizes that director RJ Cutler focuses too much on her 2004 insider trading lawsuit in the second half of the film.

“The trial and actual incarceration took less than two years of an 83-year-old life,” she said. “I thought of it as a vacation, to tell you the truth.”

Those two years—from her awkward phone call to her stockbroker while en route to Cabo San Lucas to her last day in Alderson Prison in West Virginia—take up almost half of the doctor’s two-hour office.

Bitter Stewart is furious when she mentions the film’s courtroom drama, in which she participated, and says the parties responsible, including eventual FBI Director James Comey, deserve to be thrown into a blender.

“It was so horrifying for me that I had to go through that to be a trophy for these idiots at the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” she says of the high-profile trial.

“Those prosecutors should have been put in a Cuisinart and put on high alert. I was a trophy – a prominent woman, the first billionaire woman in America. ‘We have her.’”

When she begins serving her five-month prison sentence in 2004, actors read her diary entries criticizing the food and staff.

“Physical examination,” she says in a note from her first day. ‘Stripped of all clothes. Squat, arms out, cough. Embarrassing.”

Then she talks about the limited cafeteria fare available behind bars.

“What concerns me is the very poor quality of the food,” Stewart wrote from the ringing. “And the unavailability of something fresh, because there is a lot of starch, a lot of carbohydrates and a lot of fatty foods. Not a pure thing.”

In her first week at the joint – which forced her to give up her contact lenses – she claims to have spent a day in solitary confinement for accidentally touching a guard. (The Federal Bureau of Prisons disputes this.)

“Today I saw two very well dressed ladies walking, and I walked past them, remarking on the beautiful morning and how nice they looked – when I realized from the large silver key ring that they were guards. I lightly brushed the chain,” Stewart wrote.

“Later I was called in and told never to touch a guard without expecting a severe reprimand. Of course I apologized, but the incident was so minor when it happened that I didn’t think about it for the rest of the day.”

The founder of ‘Martha Stewart Living’ says she was severely punished for the faux pas.

“I was dragged to solitary for touching an officer,” she recalled. “No food or drink for a day. This was Camp Cupcake, remember? That was the nickname. It wasn’t a cupcake.”

And her relationships suffered. While incarcerated, friend Charles Simonyi, the wealthy maker of Microsoft Office, visited her only once, the film shows.

“I don’t think he liked being with anyone in prison,” she said. “He was on his boat, floating around the world.”

And shortly after Stewart became a free woman, he unceremoniously dumped her – under the covers.

“We were in bed and he said, ‘You know, Martha, I’m getting married.’ He said, “I’m going to marry Lisa.” And I said, ‘Lisa who?!’” Stewart recalls.

“I mean, he didn’t tell me a word. ‘And besides, her parents don’t want me to speak to you ever again.’”

“I thought this was the most horrible thing a person could do. How can a man who has been with me for fifteen years do that? What a stupid thing to do to someone you really cared about.

Stewart also goes into messy detail about her and her ex-husband Andrew Stewart’s extramarital affairs, and the resulting implosion of their marriage years before.

She first stepped out with Andrew – innocently, she says – when they were on their honeymoon in Italy and she was just 19 years old.

One day Martha visited the Duomo in Milan alone while Andrew was staying at the hotel, and there in the church she communicated with a random gentleman.

“It was a very romantic place, full of tourists, and (I) met a very handsome man,” she said.

‘He didn’t know I was married. I was one of those little girls who hung out in the cathedral on Easter Eve. He was emotional, I was emotional. Just because it was an emotional place. It was unlike anything I had ever experienced.”

She added: “It was like nothing I’d ever done before, so why not kiss a stranger?”

Martha claims the secret hug was “neither naughty nor disloyal, it was just emotional. Of the moment. That’s how I looked at it.”

That wasn’t the only indiscretion, however. She also admits to cheating again later in the marriage.

“I had a very brief affair with a very attractive Irishman, and it was just nothing,” she says. “It was nothing. In terms of… I would never have broken up a marriage over it. It was nothing.”

Andrew, meanwhile, is said to have been constantly messing with Martha.

“He wasn’t happy at home,” she said. “I don’t know how many different girlfriends he had during that time, but I think there were quite a few. Young women, listen to my advice: If you are married and think you are happily married and your husband starts cheating on you, he is a piece of s––t. And consider him a piece of s––t and get out of that marriage. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t run away.”

Eventually, Martha says, her husband began sleeping with a female employee, assistant Robyn Fairclough, who lived on their Connecticut estate.

“Robyn worked for me, and she lost her apartment or something. And I said, ‘You could move to the barn on the bottom two acres.’ We had a small apartment there. And when I was traveling, Andy started with her,” she said.

“It was like putting a snack in front of Andy.”

“I immediately put her outside. “What the hell are you doing?!” Andy betrayed me on our turf. Not nice.”

A friend admitted that Stewart was so distraught during this turbulent period that “at one point she showed me where she was pulled out the hair from her own head.”

Even as she rose to fame and professional success, Martha wrote increasingly intense letters to her estranged husband, asking for a divorce.

The notes are rawly emotional, with messages such as:

‘I can’t sleep. I can’t eat. My skin is worried and many lines that were not there are now there. I’m terribly jealous of your other women.’

“Maybe you plan to marry her and keep her with my money so she can paint herself naked in portraits. It’s very tantalizing, isn’t it? Maybe she’ll paint you naked too. I would like to see that painting.”

“I have to go to San Francisco and talk about weddings and my wonderful life. I hope you enjoy your freedom. And I hope my plane crashes.”

She has not yet spoken to Andrew, with whom she shares 59-year-old daughter Alexis. in 20 years.

Clearly, “Martha” is a revealing portrait – sometimes painfully revealing – of an American icon with a wealth of dazzling information.

But the subject doesn’t see it that way.

“RJ had full access, and he actually used very little,” Stewart told the Times. “It was just shocking.”

Cutler has now responded to her criticism the New York Times.

“I am truly proud of this film and I admire Martha’s courage in commissioning me to make the film,” Cutler said in a statement. “I’m not surprised it’s hard for her to see aspects of it.”