Former Westport resident Martha Stewart admits she cheated on her ex-husband

In the trailer for “Martha,” an upcoming Netflix film releasing on Wednesday, October 30, Stewart confirms that she cheated on her first husband, Andy Stewart, during their 25-year marriage.

Immediately afterwards, Stewart, aged 83, drops another bombshell – her ex-husband never found out.

“Young women, take my advice: If you’re married and your husband starts cheating on you, he’s a (expletive deleted),” Stewart says in the trailer, adding, “Get out of that marriage.”

An interviewer then asks Stewart about her affair, to which the icon responds, “Yeah, but I don’t think Andy ever knew about that.”

The two married in 1961. Years later, in 1965, their only daughter Alexis was born.

The couple eventually separated in 1987 and divorced in 1990, just as Martha Stewart was building her media empire, although:

“Divorce was a terrible thing for me because we were the first to get divorced in my family… And the fact that we haven’t spoken since the divorce is even more painful. But I am very strong and I am very motivated to to get on with life,” Stewart told People in a 2020 interview.

In the trailer for ‘Martha’, Stewart also discusses qualities that led to her success:

“I’m strict and demanding and I’m all those good things that make a successful person… I was on top of the world,” she says.

Stewart also doesn’t hesitate to mention her stock trading trial that led to her five-month sentence in a minimum-security federal prison in West Virginia after she was caught lying to investigators about the sale of her shares in the biopharmaceutical company ImClone Systems.

“I was a trophy for these idiots…those prosecutors should have been put in a Cuisinart and put on edge,” she says.

Stewart’s blistering words were not just reserved for the documentary, she has already expressed her dissatisfaction with the production. During the 2024 Retail Influencer CEO Forum, she called the film “lazy” and “not the story that makes me me,” according to OK Magazine.

She also said the film’s director, RJ Cutler, “refused to change anything” even though she had a collaboration contract with the documentary, the outlet reported.

Stewart rose to fame as a globally renowned businesswoman and television personality and is known for her media empire, including cookbooks, her magazine ‘Martha Stewart Living’ and numerous television shows including ‘Martha Gardens’, ‘Martha Cooks’ and ‘Martha Cooks’. Martha vacation.”

She is a resident of the hamlet of Katonah in Northern Westchester. She has also previously owned homes in Westport, Connecticut, and on Long Island, in East Hampton.

Click here to watch the full trailer for ‘Martha’.

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