‘I’m Alive, B****!’: Martha Stewart’s Nemesis Claps Back After False Death Claim

A former Martha Stewart nemesis clapped back to a false death claim made by the lifestyle legend in a scene from her Netflix biopic Martha. She responded, “I’m alive b****” after Stewart claimed she was dead in an interview.

Martha Stewart said ‘thank goodness’ a reporter who covered her trial had died

In the Netflix documentary Martha, the lifestyle leader discussed all aspects of her life, including a period between 2004 and 2005 when she was jailed for charges related to insider trading.

Stewart spoke of the incident, and subsequent five-month incarceration in a federal correctional facility. Her statements were supplemented with video and documents regarding the case.

She also appeared to celebrate the death of a New York Post columnist who covered the trial. Stewart said, “The New York Post lady was there, just looking so smug. She had written horrible things during the entire trial.”

The celebrity concluded, “But she’s dead now, thank goodness. And nobody has to put up with the crap she was writing all the time.” She did not mention the reporter by name.

However, Andrea Peyser stepped forward in an editorial for the New York Post 20 years later to identify herself, saying she was very much still around. She clapped back at Stewart’s remarks, saying, “I’m alive, b****!”

She added, “News of my passing came as a shock. Should I be scared about continuing to write that ‘crap’?”

Martha Stewart’s reporter nemesis didn’t hold back her criticism of the lifestyle leader

For The New York Post, Andrea Peyser didn’t hold back in her criticism of Martha Stewart. She remained as steadfast in her beliefs about Stewart as she did 20 years prior.

“Martha — who has compared her plight to that of the late South African freedom fighter-turned-statesman Nelson Mandela — today is playing the innocent victim. She has spent years stewing over her persecution by a sexist justice system that she says was hellbent on taking down a woman who’s rich, or something that rhymes with it. And she remains dangerously preoccupied with little, insignificant me,” Peyser wrote.

She continued, “Now, Martha thinks I’m ‘dead.’ But rather than feeling angry or worried that Martha has offed me, or to seek an emergency order of protection, I am overwhelmingly sad in the face of Martha’s bitterness.”

Peyser concluded, “She’s rich. She’s beautiful, creative, and temperamental. I pity her.”

What other revelations came from the Netflix ‘Martha’ documentary?

Martha Stewart was open about the turns her life took throughout the past 83 years. She documented her rise to success and her humble origins as a young girl growing up in Nutley, New Jersey as one of five children.

However, Stewart wasn’t shy about some of the truth bombs she shared in Martha. She married Andy Stewart at the age of 19 and together, they took a five-month honeymoon.

Stewart described going to church the night before Easter while her husband stayed back in their room as she explored Florence’s Duomo. She called the place “romantic” and claimed she met and flirted with a handsome guy whom she later kissed.

After discussing her husband’s reported infidelity, an off-screen producer asked Stewart whether she had ever cheated in her marriage. “I had a very brief affair with a very attractive Irish man,” Stewart said.

“It was nothing. I would never have broken up a marriage for it.”

Also, the multicolored poncho the lifestyle leader wore on the day she was released from prison was made by a fellow inmate. She said the five months she spent at a Federal Correctional facility in Alderson, West Virginia, gave her time to “think.”

Martha is available to stream on Netflix.