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

Martha Stewart tries to have the last laugh.

The lifestyle mogul appeared at a women’s conference in Pennsylvania on Nov. 7 and spoke about a “scorching article” written about her in New York Post. Andrea Peyser’s column is titled “Hey, Martha Stewart, you gloated over the death of a Post columnist — but I’m alive, bitch!” Peyser wrote it after Stewart declared her dead in her Netflix documentary Marta.

“She wrote this very sharp article today in New York Post — mine favorite newspaper,” Stewart said on stage to laughs from the audience.

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Stewart read the article’s headline from her phone and revealed her own cheeky reaction: “So it’s probably going to get more people to watch my documentary,” she said before having a good laugh of her own.

The cookbook author was on stage with Ellen McGirt, editor-in-chief of the Design Observer.

Martha Stewart with Ellen McGirt.

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Peyser published the column earlier that day, November 7, after being alerted to her “unspecified episode” in Marta. The cinematic moment comes as Stewart discusses the courtroom scene when she was found guilty of lying to the FBI during an insider trading investigation in 2004.

“New York Post the lady was there, she just looked so smug,” Stewart said. “She was writing horrible things throughout the trial. But she’s dead now, thank God. And nobody has to put up with the crap she’s been writing all along.” (It’s not clear why Stewart believed Peyser was dead.)

Andrea Peyser of the New York Post; Martha Stewart in the movie “Martha”.

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“The news of my death was a shock,” Peyser said in her latest column.

Peyser also said New York of Vulture magazine that it’s “kind of amazing” to know she’s been living in Stewart’s head “rent-free” all this time.

“Someone warned me about it; they saw the documentary. Of course I had to see it,” she told Vulture. “And I was like, Woof. I’m really surprised. She’s very successful, she’s been through a lot and why she should focus on me is a bit scary.”

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