Martha Stewart explained how she got away with cheating on her former husband and never got caught.
The 83-year-old lifestyle brand founder bragged that it was “very easy” to keep her infidelity under wraps. “You have to be circumspect,” Stewart told Lee Brian Schrager while celebrating the publication of her 100th book Wednesday night, per a video released by The Daily Mail.
The affair was revealed earlier this month as part of the trailer for her new Netflix documentary, “Martha.” Stewart admitted she had an affair while married to Andrew Stewart, who she was with from 1961 until 1990.
“Young women, listen to my advice, if you’re married and your husband starts to cheat on you, he’s a piece of s***,” Stewart said in the trailer. “Get out of that marriage.”
This declaration prompted a producer to ask, “Didn’t you have an affair early on?” Stewart replied, “Yeah, but I don’t think Andy ever knew about that.”
Stewart started dating her former husband when she was just 19, and he was 23 after being set up on a blind date. Together they have one daughter, Alexis, who was born in 1965.
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The cookbook author never married again but has been linked romantically to actor Anthony Hopkins and billionaire Charles Simonyi in subsequent years. Stewart reportedly broke up with Hopkins after seeing the film “The Silence of the Lambs” because she couldn’t stop picturing him as Hannibal Lecter.
The documentary follows Stewart’s rise to fame, plus her marriage and incarceration for insider trading. “What does it mean to be the first female self-made billionaire in history?” Stewart asks at the beginning of the trailer.
Stewart said she was “considered crazy” early on, “but it worked.” Stewart started as a stockbroker after a brief modeling stint. She founded a catering business in the 1970s that led to her first cookbook, “Entertaining,” in 1982.
The media brand owner served time in Alderson Federal Prison Camp, a minimum security facility in West Virginia, between 2004 and 2005. She was convicted on multiple felony charges, including conspiracy and obstruction of justice in conjunction with the ImClone stock insider trading scandal in 2001.
