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Martha Stewart has some choice words for her Netflix documentary. After the streaming platform released the documentary “Martha” Oct. 30, the 83-year-old called out director R.J.

with “many different girlfriends” and cheating on her with her ex-assistant. However, Andy is now telling his side of the story courtesy of his third wife, Shyla Nelson Stewart.Before the documentary was available to stream on Netflix, Andy and Shyla took issue with the “sensationalized” trailer — and fired off their frustrations via Facebook.Shyla wrote the lengthy post but signed it on her and her husband’s behalf.Calling him “one of the gentlest, most soft-spoken, kind-hearted men” she’s ever known, Shyla gushed over their marriage before blasting the union he shared with Martha.“Prior to this happy chapter of his life, Andy had some dark ones, including a painful and abusive marriage to Martha (as in, Martha Stewart), which ended almost 40 years ago,” she wrote in their statement dated Oct.

published a column correcting Stewart’s bizarre and wrong claim that she’s “dead,” the lifestyle entrepreneur hit back by bitterly acknowledging the story onstage.“She wrote this very scathing article today,” Stewart bemoaned to the crowd at Thursday’s Philadelphia Conference for Women event, “in the New York Post — my favorite newspaper.”Stewart, 83, then read aloud the headline — “’Hey Martha Stewart, you gloated about the death of a Post columnist — but I’m alive, bitch!’” to audible gasps from the audience.“So, that will probably cause more people to watch my documentary,” the convicted felon added of her new movie “Martha,” finding the silver lining in her blatant falsehood.Stewart, who did five months in the clink in 2004, also doubled down on her innocence, calling her securities fraud misdeeds “a crime I didn’t commit.”Twenty years ago, Peyser covered Stewart’s six-week trial from the Manhattan courtroom almost daily for The Post — brutally describing the magazine founder as an “ill-mannered dominatrix,” “the queen of control freaks” and “a dame who made a billion treating her inferiors like pond scum.”The then-billionaire did not take kindly to her dispatches.“New York Post lady was there,” Stewart says in her doc of the day her guilty verdict was read, “just looking so smug.“She had written horrible things during the entire trial. But she is dead now, thank goodness.“And nobody has to put up with the crap she was writing all the time.”Peyser, a Post columnist for more than two decades, today responded: “I’m alive, bitch.”The writer added: “News of my passing came as a shock.

the Domestic Dominatrix thinks she’s finished me off.It’s been 20 years since Martha Stewart traded her Manolo stilettos for ballet flats, her 1,000-thread-count Egyptian cotton bedsheets for a lumpy, polyester blend-covered bunk bed — the bottom half, she moaned — and suffered through a diet of horrific coffee and fat- and carb-heavy grub as she became the most fabulous and furious inmate ever to grace Club Fed.Two decades later, she’s still fantasizing about (plotting?) my grisly demise.I made an uncredited cameo appearance in the new Netflix documentary, simply titled with her first name, “Martha.” Like Cher. Or Osama.It’s about the life and crimes, hissy fits, grudges, vendettas and remorseless misbehavior of the New Jersey-born model-turned-stockbroker, then internationally celebrated purveyor of homemaker porn.Martha’s a perfectionist so petty and abusive, she was caught on camera in the doc berating a kitchen worker for using a too-small and “stupid” knife to cut an orange, then unsuccessfully ordering members of the film crew following her to cut out the vicious tirade.She’s an obsessive-compulsive so mean, she grew apoplectic at a lowly stockbroker’s assistant over the poor quality of the “hold” music she was forced to endure.

her Netflix documentary, including her relationship with billionaire businessman Charles Simonyi.Stewart, 83, dated Simonyi, 76, for 15 years following her divorce from Andrew Stewart. They even stayed together while Stewart spent 150 days in jail in 2004 for charges related to conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

“Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions.” An unspecified number of years after the alleged incident, Napolitano claimed that the extraterrestrials returned and targeted her family, giving them “nosebleeds.” At the time, 23 witnesses claim they saw Napolitano floating in the Manhattan skyline like Criss Angel. Or at least, that’s what Hopkins alleged in his book, but he didn’t provide all of their identities. Onscreen, one witness alleged that he saw her levitating in the sky, and, “I thought it was a movie; special effects.” Another witness was an unnamed delivery man for the New York Post, who said he saw it while he was on his delivery route.

new Netflix documentary. The famous homemaker, 83, recalled her dad’s angry reaction when she got engaged to Andrew Stewart. The couple met when Martha was in undergrad at Barnard College in New York City and Andrew was a law student at Yale University.

told The New York Times.The documentary, released Wednesday, looked back at Stewart’s life and hardships, including her 2004 Alderson Federal Prison Camp stint, which she claims should not have been the main focus of the movie’s second half.“The trial and the actual incarceration was less than two years out of an 83-year life,” she said. “I considered it a vacation, to tell you the truth.”The former self-made billionaire also blasted the documentary’s soundtrack, saying Cutler got “some lousy classical score in there, which has nothing to do with me.”She insisted that the filmmaker ignored her request to “play rap music,” which she said is an “essential part of the film.”Still, it wasn’t all bad, thanks to the film’s first half.“I love the first half of the documentary.

The Netflix documentary “Martha” addresses the respective affairs that Martha, 83, and Andrew both had back in the day, including how Martha handled her then-husband’s infidelity. The famous homemaker’s friend Kathy Tatlock explained in the doc how Andrew cheated on Martha with her former assistant, Robyn Fairclough.“There were rumors floating around that Andy had some sort of involvement with the girl who was doing the flower arrangements at Turkey Hill Farm,” said Tatlock, referring to the Stewarts’ Westport, Connecticut, home.“Martha was picking up on everything and getting more and more upset,” Tatlock recalled. “She would be frantic.

the former writer for the show who faked having cancer. Finch’s story was recently explored in the Peacock docuseries “Anatomy of Lies,” which addressed her web of lies that caused her to get fired from “Grey’s” after working as both a writer and a producer from 2014 to 2022.Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington, who play Arizona Robbins and Jo Wilson on the series, respectively, addressed the documentary on Monday’s episode of their “Call It What It Is” podcast.“It never occurred to me to not believe her,” said Capshaw, 48.

People if Andrew has seen the project, in which she confesses to having an affair.“The ex-husband? I have no idea. I haven’t talked to him for over 20 years.

Hayley Hough are stepping into the spotlight in a new way.The couple has been documenting the past year after Hayley underwent an emergency craniotomy last December to treat a burst blood vessel.“We have a lot to share, actually,” Derek, 39, exclusively told The Post at “Dancing With the Stars” on Tuesday. “So that [tonight] was just the beginning of revealing a little bit more about the story. But we’ve actually documented the entire year and the whole process in detail.

Selena Gomez revealed that she doesn’t sleep in her bedroom, per AOL. “The Only Murders in the Building” star, 32, explained to the audience that her room was “associated” with “a really dark time.”“I’m a little bit different than my mom, because I spent too much time in my bedroom that I actually don’t even sleep in my bedroom anymore, because I associate it with such a really dark time,” expressed Gomez.“Being anxious is so debilitating sometimes, and yeah, I didn’t want to leave my bed for years, and part of it was I wasn’t doing the work,” she continued. “I am a very anxious person.

former “Grey’s Anatomy” writer Elisabeth Finch, who wove a web of lies more dramatic than anything Patrick Dempsey, Sandra Oh or Ellen Pompeo portrayed on-screen. As the documentary covers, Finch — who worked on the show from 2014 to 2022 as both a writer and a producer — fabricated a cancer diagnosis, lied about her brother dying by suicide, claimed that Oscar-winning actress Anna Paquin secretly gave her a kidney, and more. Vanity Fair first broke the story in 2022.

“Grey’s Anatomy” writer Elisabeth Finch would allegedly alter her appearance and take “puke breaks” as part of her orchestrated ruse to get people to believe she was seriously ill with cancer.A clip of the new three-part series “Anatomy of Lies” on Peacock displayed a glimpse into the extent of Finch’s lies as she faked having cancer for nearly a decade while working on the Emmy-winning show.In it, her former colleague, writer and producer Andy Reaser, shared the feeling of “betrayal” he felt over the lengths the fraudster was willing to go to convince others she was grappling with cancer and chemotherapy treatment.“The thing is, it was so confusing,” Reaser said in the clip. “You have to move through eight years of interactions to even wrap your head around it and I’m not even sure that I still fully have.”Reaser compared Finch’s lies to “performance art” and briefly explained how far she would go to pull one over on her colleagues.“She was showing up to work with a shaved head and a, you know, a greenish hue.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosting a daytime talk show for a week — a veritable Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.That’s exactly what happened 52 years ago when the erstwhile Beatle and his wife brought peace, love and counterculture to Middle America on “The Mike Douglas Show.”Just months after “Imagination” was released, that radical week — with five shows airing Feb. 14-18, 1972 — saw Lennon and Ono chatting up guests that they had selected to spread their utopian vision in the final years of the Vietnam War.It’s a memorable moment in time that is revisited in the new documentary “Daytime Revolution” playing in theaters on Wednesday, which would have been Lennon’s 84th birthday.

visit to a Texas restaurant after his trans co-star, Harper Steele, received an awkward response from diners. It happened while Ferrell and Steele, a former “Saturday Night Live” head writer, were filming their new Netflix documentary, “Will & Harper,” which follows their 17-day road trip across the country “to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self” after Steele came out as transgender in 2022.They received what they described as an unexpected and uncomfortable response from diners at a Texas restaurant after Steele mentioned the state hadn’t done enough for trans rights, the New York Times reported.“I’m from Iowa, but I will raise a glass to your great state of Texas,” Steele said to a receptive audience of diners at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, where Ferrell and Steele planned to attempt the restaurant’s famous 72-ounce steak challenge.

The trailer for the film dropped Sunday. In it, Joann shares how her father’s sex crimes convictions turned her world upside down. “Nobody wants to be the child of the father that is out here hurting women and children,” Joann said.

“The Last Showgirl” weighed in on Hulu’s recent four-part docuseries about “Baywatch,” the ’90s TV show that skyrocketed Anderson to fame, making sure everyone knows she didn’t take part in it and isn’t interested in revisiting that time in her life. “Even today, someone showed me something that Hulu’s doing, some kind of ‘Baywatch’ [documentary], which I have nothing to do with,” Anderson, 57, told Glamour magazine in an interview published Monday.In Anderson’s view, “After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun” misled people to believe that she was involved with the project because of its promise to feature original members of the show and its use of old interviews with the star.

disgraced “Grey’s Anatomy” writer Elisabeth Finch, detailing the outlandish lies she told about her medical and personal history — including that she had cancer — all in an effort to get ahead in Hollywood. The streamer debuted a teaser trailer Tuesday about the three-part series “Anatomy of Lies.” The program will reportedly feature interviews with some of those closest to Finch.“The docuseries reveals how Finch, a master of manipulation, saved her best fiction for her own life story and exploited the empathy of those around her,” said a press release.

“Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band” at the Toronto International Film Festival. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was there, too, faraway from his jurisdiction.