Martha Stewart cops to having an affair during her marriage to Andrew Stewart in an upcoming documentary — but dismisses her infidelity because her now-ex-husband didn’t know about it.
In the trailer for Netflix’s “Martha,” the domestic doyenne warns young women about cheating spouses.
“Listen to my advice: If you’re married and your husband starts to cheat on you, he’s a piece of s–t,” Martha, 83, intones in the teaser released Thursday. “Get out of that marriage.”
A producer then asks the television personality, “Didn’t you have an affair early on?”
“Yeah, but I don’t think Andy ever knew about that,” she quickly replies.
Martha wed Andrew in 1961. Their only child, daughter Alexis Stewart, was born in 1965. The former couple separated in 1987 and finalized their divorce three years later.
Andrew went on to marry Martha’s former assistant Robyn Fairclough, who was 21 years younger than him, in 1993. The two have since divorced.
Andrew is now married to Shyla Nelson, the president and CEO of Fieldstone Publishing.
Martha opened up about her divorce in a 2020 interview.
“Getting divorced was a terrible thing for me because we were the first to divorce in my family,” she told People at the time. “And that we haven’t spoken since the divorce is even more painful.”
The culinary maven never remarried but went on to date early Microsoft employee Charles Simonyi and Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins.
Page Six recently reported that Martha was unhappy with her documentary, calling it “lazy” and “not the story that makes me me.”
She also groused that the film, which is directed by R.J. Cutler and begins streaming on Oct. 30, focuses on her “stupid trial, which was so unfair.”
In 2004, the businesswoman was sentenced to a minimum-security federal prison in West Virginia after lying to investigators who probed stock sales of the company ImClone.
She was released from prison in 2005 and served a two-year term of supervised release, which included home confinement with electronic monitoring.
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