A New York Post columnist is clapping back at Martha Stewart − and letting the businesswoman know she's very much still alive. In "Martha," a new Netflix documentary about the lifestyle guru's life, Stewart slammed columnist Andrea Peyser , who covered the TV personality's 2004 securities fraud trial, which landed her in federal prison. In the tell-all documentary, Stewart said of Peyser: "New York Post lady was there just looking so smug.
She had written horrible things during the entire trial. But she is dead now, thank goodness." In 2004, Peyser's coverage in the New York Post held no punches .
She described Stewart's outfit as "dun-colored spike heels and a shapeless smock — looking like a gardener who moonlights as a dominatrix" and she accused Stewart of playing the victim during her trial, "a carefully scripted pose." In a statement to USA TODAY Thursday, Peyser said, "I should be flattered I lived in her head all these years − and (that) she's (a) faithful Post reader." On Thursday, the columnist also penned an article, titled: "Hey Martha Stewart, you gloated about the death of a Post columnist — but I’m alive, (expletive)!" She began, referring to her early aughts takedown of Stewart, "Even if the Domestic Dominatrix thinks she's finished me off .
.. Two decades later, she’s still fantasizing about (plotting?) my grisly demise.
" Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Peyser continued: "I made an uncredited cameo appearance in the new Net.