Martha Stewart has entered the ring.
Hours after The Post’s Andrea Peyser published a column Correcting Stewart’s bizarre and inaccurate claim that she was “dead,” the lifestyle entrepreneur hit back, bitterly acknowledging the story on stage.
“She wrote this extremely scathing article today,” Stewart lamented before the crowd at the Philadelphia Conference for Women on Thursday, “in the New York Post — my favorite newspaper.”
Stewart, 83, then read the headline aloud – “‘Hey Martha Stewart, you gloated about the death of a Post columnist – but I’m alive, bitch!'” Gasps were heard from the audience.
The convicted criminal said of him, “So, this will probably get more people to watch my documentary.” The new movie “Martha,” Finding a ray of hope in his blatant lies.
Stewart, who worked at Clink for five months in 2004, also doubled down on his innocence, calling his securities fraud misdeeds “a crime I did not commit.”
Twenty years ago, Paire covered Stewart’s six-week trial almost daily from a Manhattan courtroom for The Post – ruthlessly describing the magazine’s founder as “abad dominatrix,Queen of Control Devils” and “ A woman who earned a billion Treating inferiors like pond scum,
The then billionaire did not consider his dispatch good.
“The lady from the New York Post was there,” Stewart says in her documentary the day her guilty verdict was read, “just looking very smug.
“He wrote terrible things throughout the trial. But now she is dead, thank God.
“And no one would have to put up with the nonsense she was writing all the time.”
Peyser, a Post columnist for more than two decades, responded today: “I’m alive, bitch.”
The author further added: “The news of my demise came as a shock. Should I be afraid to continue writing that ‘crap’?
“Long after she and stockbroker Peter Bacanovic, who tipped the insider, were convicted of securities fraud and other crimes, then lied to federal investigators about it, her thoughts turned to her family, her pink-slipped employees. , not with his mini-menagerie of animals, or even his own miserable self.
“He has focused his anger on me.”
