Martha Stewart said the reporter who covered her trial was dead, but she was not

Martha Stewart accidentally kills a journalist mentioned in her new Netflix documentary, Marta.

In the film, which aired on October 30, Stewart, 83, claimed Andrea Peyser -A New York Post columnist who covered Stewart’s infamous 2004 trial – was “dead now, thank God.” But she isn’t.

Peyser used her latest column for the newspaper to declare, “I’m alive, bitch!” Peyser, who started working for New York Post in 1989, has published at least eight other stories by 2024.

Stewart was convicted in 2004 of lying to the FBI during an insider trading investigation.

“Guilty, guilty, guilty of all these charges, whatever,” she said Marta. “My daughter, she fainted when they read the verdict. Poor child.’

Stewart referred to Peyser simply as “New York Post lady” and recalled seeing her in the courtroom when the verdict was announced. In her latest story, Peyser confirmed that she was “writing Post columns for weeks” at the time.

“The lady from the New York Post was there and looked so smug,” Stewart said. “She wrote terrible things throughout the process. But she’s dead now, thank God. And no one has to put up with the crap she was writing all the time.”

“The news of my death came as a shock,” Peyser said of her “uncredited guest appearance.”

“But instead of feeling angry or concerned that Martha has offended me, or seeking an emergency order for protection, I am overwhelmingly sad in the face of Martha’s bitterness.”

It is unclear why Stewart thought Peyser was dead.

The Netflix documentary chronicles Stewart’s life, including herself five-month stay at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia (nicknamed Camp Cupcake) after the trial. She shared letters she wrote during her time there.

On the first of 150 days in jail, Stewart wrote: “Physical examination, stripped of all clothes. Squatting, stretching out arms, coughing – embarrassing.”

“I had to do all that crap you see in movies,” she said. “You can’t even believe you’re going through this.”