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Martha Stewart has entered the ring. Hours after The Post’s Andrea Peyser 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 d.

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