Martha Stewart Claps Back at Reporter’s 'Scathing' Column Responding to Martha Thinking She Was Dead

Mar. 15, 2025

Martha Stewart at the Pennsylvania Conference For Women on Nov. 7.Photo:Marla Aufmuth/Getty

Marla Aufmuth/Getty

Martha Stewartis trying to have the last laugh.

“She wrote this very scathing article today in theNew York Post— myfavoritenewspaper," Stewart said onstage, and wasmet with laughs from the crowd.

Stewart read the article headline from her phone and revealed her own cheeky reaction: “So, that will probably cause more people to watch my documentary,” she said before letting out a good chuckle of her own.

The cookbook author was onstage with Ellen McGirt, editor-in-chief ofDesign Observer.

Martha Stewart with Ellen McGirt.Marla Aufmuth/Getty

Peyser had published the column earlier in the day on Nov. 7 after being alerted to her “uncredited cameo” inMartha. The film moment comes as Stewart is discussing the scene in the courtroom when was she wasfound guilty for lying to the FBIduring an insider-trading investigation in 2004.

“New York Postlady 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.” (It is unclear why Stewart believed Peyser was dead.)

New York Post’s Andrea Peyser; Martha Stewart in ‘Martha’.Arnaldo Magnani/Getty; Courtesy of Netflix

Arnaldo Magnani/Getty; Courtesy of Netflix

“News of my passing came as a shock,” said Peyser in her latest column.

Peyser also toldNew Yorkmagazine’s Vulturethat it has been “kind of amazing” to know she had been living in Stewart’s head “rent-free” all this time.

“Somebody alerted me to it; they had seen the documentary. So of course I had to see it,” she told Vulture. “And I was like,Wow. I’m just surprised. She’s very successful, she’s been through a lot of stuff, and why she should concentrate on me is kind of gobsmacking.”

source: people.com