-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email In her Netflix documentary “Martha,” Martha Stewart famously said she was glad that one journalist — who covered her insider trading scandal in a rather scathing manner — had kicked the bucket. “The New York Post lady was there just looking so smug,” the lifestyle mogul said in the documentary. “She had written horrible things during the entire trial.
She’s dead now, thank goodness, and nobody has to put up with that c**p she was writing all the time.” In the wake of Stewart’s comments, New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser shot back at Stewart, writing in an article , “I’m alive, b***h!” Turns out, Stewart wasn’t celebrating the demise of Peyser. Stewart recently told CNBC that she was actually celebrating the death of Constance Hays, a business reporter at The New York Times.
Stewart called Hays “an equally divisive and dangerous journalist at The New York Times.” Hays died from cancer at the age of 44 in 2005, just one year after covering Stewart’s bombshell trial. “That was a little bit of sloppy fact-checking on the part of my team on the documentary,” Stewart said.
Related “Martha” plot twist: Journalist Martha Stewart buried is still breathing “I’m sorry for her family, but I did not like Constance Hays. I did not like what she did to me every day. It was horrible and not very accurate and not very true and not very nice,” she added.
Stewart, who refrained from naming names in her d.