Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Martha Stewart made a number of startling revelations about her past in the new documentary "Martha." The Netflix film follows the soaring highs and demoralizing lows of Stewart's life, including the evolution of her billion-dollar lifestyle empire, her staggering downfall and her successful comeback.
"I knew that the various narratives of her life story had been told in different ways, but never from her perspective — never by her," director R.J. Cutler told the Netflix Queue publication in August.
Martha Stewart dropped a number of bombshells in the documentary "Martha." (Courtesy of Netflix) In a series of interviews with Cutler that were featured in the movie, the 83-year-old pulled back the veil on her personal life, candidly opening up about her childhood, her marriage and her experiences during her five-month prison stint. MARTHA STEWART ADMITS SHE KISSED A STRANGER IN A CATHEDRAL DURING HER HONEYMOON Here are five of the biggest bombshells from "Martha.
" Stewart's father slapped her and forbade her from marrying Andrew Stewart Stewart said her father slapped her when she told him she was marrying Andrew Stewart. ( 2024 Martha Stewart/Courtesy of Netflix) In "Martha," Stewart recalled growing up in a middle-class family in Nutley, New Jersey. She was the second of six children shared by Edward and Martha Kostyra.
The TV personality remembered she and Edward shared many similarities. "It was very obvio.