A columnist who Martha Stewart claimed was dead has hit back at the billionaire businessman and told her: ‘I’m alive, b**ch!’ in a scathing new article.
Andrea Peyser addressed the 83-year-old homemaking expert directly in a first person piece published on the New York Post website on Thursday and claimed: ‘Two decades later, she’s still fantasizing about (plotting?) my grisly demise.’
Peyser was referring to comments that Stewart made in her Netflix documentary, which dropped on October 30, and delved into the author’s childhood, her only marriage, and even her stint in prison.
At one point in the documentary, Stewart reflected on the media scrutiny that she endured at the time of her 2004 trial for securities fraud and obstruction of justice and recalled: ‘New York Post lady was there just looking so smug. She had written horrible things during the entire trial.
‘She’s dead now, thank goodness, and nobody has to put up with that crap she was writing all the time,’ Stewart added, but it seems Peyser isn’t dead after all.
In her Netflix documentary, Martha Stewart claimed that a New York Post reporter who wrote ‘horrible’ things about her was now dead
Journalist Andrea Peyser has addressed Martha in a new article and declared: ‘I’m alive, b**ch!’
Referring to Stewart as the ‘Domestic Dominatrix’, Peyser wrote: ‘It’s been 20 years since Martha Stewart traded her Manolo stilettos for ballet flats, her 1,000-thread-count Egyptian cotton bedsheets for a lumpy, polyester blend-covered bunk bed — the bottom half, she moaned — as she became the most fabulous and furious inmate ever to grace Club Fed.’
The columnist then joked: ‘News of my passing came as a shock. Should I be scared about continuing to write that “crap”?’ before labeling Stewart as a ‘petty and abusive perfectionist.’
However, Peyser’s digs didn’t end there as she claimed the TV star has ‘gone from being a billionaire to a mere multimillionaire.
The journalist went on to say that she ‘gets the sense’ that Martha is ‘lonely,’ and described her as a ‘cold and indifferent mother,’ to her only child, Alexis.
‘She’s rich. She’s beautiful, creative and temperamental. I pity her,’ Peyser finished her article with.
Stewart was found guilty on counts of conspiracy and obstruction and two counts of making false statements in March 2004 after a six-week trial.
She was locked up in October that same year, before being released in March 2005 and spent a further five months in home confinement.
After tuning into the documentary last week, viewers were stunned with Stewart’s scathing takedown of Peyser and took to X – formerly known as Twitter – to comment.
Martha pictured leaving federal court after a hearing in June 2003 in New York City
‘Martha Stewart, I was not familiar with your game,’ one person wrote, while another said: ‘I don’t care, I love Martha!’
A third said: ‘Martha literally has me scream-laughing on this Netflix documentary.’
‘She is so real for this,’ a fourth commented, while a fifth added: ‘This doc is brilliant. If you don’t like Martha, this won’t make you – but Martha is authentic and I’m here for it.’
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