Martha Stewart admits to relationship in Netflix doc

Martha Stewart tells all in her new documentary — including one she says her ex-husband didn't even know about.

In the trailer for her new Netflix documentary, “Martha,” the lifestyle mogul admits to having an affair while married to Andy Stewart.

“Young lady, listen to my advice, if you're married and your husband starts cheating on you, he's a piece of (garbage),” Stewart, 83, says in the trailer. “Get out of this marriage.”

“You haven't had a relationship before?” asked a producer. Stewart replies: “Yeah, but I don't think Andy ever knew about it.”

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Stewart was married to Andrew Stewart from 1961 to 1990 and opened up about her divorce to People magazine in 2020.

“Getting divorced was a scary thing for me, because we were the first in my family to divorce,” she said. “And we didn't talk because the divorce was more painful. But I'm very strong, and I'm very motivated to get on with life.”

“What's more important, marriage or career?” Stewart asks in the Netflix trailer. “You tell me,” a producer tells him. Stewart replies, “I don't know.”

But she insists, “Cookie-cutter homes and cookie-cutter lives weren't for me. … I could have just been a miserable, housewife, but I didn't let that happen to me. And I'm so glad I didn't.”

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The trailer about Stewart's wedding shocked tea fans — but it's tempting them to watch the doc.

“I'm sorry but it creeped me out! I'm tuning in!!!” One person shared a clip of the affair commenting on X, while another said, “Martha's not wrong! I'll watch!!”

“Period Martha! Standing in business,” wrote another on X. One person joked about Stewart's reaction, writing, “Martha says 'Ahhh ahhh, we're not talking about me'.”

Another X user wrote, “As always, I support women's injustice…”

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According to Netflix, the documentary “pulls back the curtain on one of America's greatest self-made icons, from her beginnings as a teen model to her reign as a Wall Street stockbroker to her reign as a grand dame of entertainment and good taste.”

“What does it mean to be the first woman in American history, a self-made billionaire?” Stewart asks with a laugh at the start of the trailer.

“I was thought crazy, but it worked,” Stewart says of today's “Thirst Trap,” a montage of images and videos from his early years.

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The lifestyle guru gained fame as a culinary expert and home expert through her Martha Stewart Living empire, including cookbooks, her magazine, and her hit TV show.

“I'm tough and I'm demanding and I'm all those good things that make a successful person,” Stewart said. “I was on top of the world.”

“And then the worst could possibly happen,” a voice said in news clips of Stewart's indictment in 2003, followed by his 2004 felony conviction on charges of obstructing the operation of an organization, conspiracy to obstruct and making false statements. Federal investigators.

“I was a trophy for these idiots,” Stewart said bluntly. “I was dragged into solitary. No food or water. Those prosecutors should have been put in a Cuisinart and held high.”

He served an infamous five-month prison sentence for lying to federal investigators about a stock sale. But her return is a modern marvel of innovation, as Stewart forged an unlikely friendship and lucrative business partnership with rapper Snoop Dogg, appeared on the cover of the 2023 issue of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit at age 81, and remains relevant as a cultural institution.

“I had to climb out of a hole,” Stewart says in the trailer. “I had two mottos: 'Learn something new every day' and 'When you're going through change, you're going through.'

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The documentary, directed by RJ Cutler, premieres on Netflix on October 30

Contributions: Charlie Trepani, Jay Stahl