Martha Stewart and Ina Garten have a long history together.
The two celebrity chefs met in the 1990s while living in the Hamptons, N.Y. Garten went on to write a column for Living Martha Stewart and Stewart helped Garten get her first book deal after taking the publisher to Garten’s specialty food store, The Barefoot Contessa.
Now the state of their friendship is being discussed. While appearing on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Sunday, Oct. 20, Stewart, 83, claimed Garten, 76, stopped talking to her when she went to prison in 2004.
Garten “vehemently” denied this The New Yorker in September. She said the two lost touch when Stewart moved away.
On Sunday WWHLwhere Snoop Dogg was also a guest, host Andy Cohen asked Stewart if she had read Garten’s new memoir, Be ready when luck strikes. “I read parts of it,” she replied.
He then asked Stewart if she had “read the parts about herself,” to which she replied, “Oh yeah.”
“Ina said they had a fight because she moved to Connecticut,” Cohen, 56, explained. Stewart said, “That’s not true.” Snoop interjected, “Martha don’t pick fights with people.”
Stewart then claimed the pair stopped talking “after I went to jail”.
“Yeah, because you can see that’s when I jumped in,” Snoop added to everyone’s laughs.
Stewart appeared on ‘Watch What Happens with Andy Cohen’ on October 20.
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Stewart’s publicist said The New Yorker in September that “she is not bitter at all and has no quarrels.”
Stewart was jailed for five months after being found guilty of charges including conspiracy and obstruction of justice in connection with the stock sale. She was also sentenced to an additional five months of house arrest and two years of supervised probation after her time in prison.
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Martha Stewart in court after her sentencing in July 2004.
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Why did Martha Stewart go to prison? A look back at her 2004 fraud case
Netflix’s upcoming documentary Marta looks at the trial and her time in prison.
“I was a trophy for these idiots,” Stewart says in the trailer. “They dragged me to solitary confinement, without food or water. Those prosecutors should have been put in a Cuisinart and fired.”
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