Martha Stewart disagrees with Ina Garten’s opinion on their differences.
Stewart, 83, thoroughly enjoyed the play when he visited “See What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” Sunday Night as a bartender to support his friend Snoop Dogg, who was one of the guests on the show.
Andy Cohen asked Stewart if he had read Garten’s new memoir “Be Ready When the Luck Happens” yet, and Stewart confirmed that he had read the “parts” of the book that mention her.
Garten, 76, claimed in her memoir that the pair fell out of touch after Garten moved to Connecticut, while Stewart lived in Bedford, New York.
“She can write whatever she wants,” Stewart said of the fellow celebrity chef.
As Cohen explained to Snoop, 53, what Garten said about Stewart in her book, the “Martha Knows Best” star set the record straight about their differences.
“That’s not true,” she said of the Connecticut claim.
Snoop then defended his bestie, saying, “Don’t fight with people Martha.”
Stewart said that, from his perspective, he and Garton’s friendship ended after he “went to jail”.
“That’s when I stepped in,” Snoop joked about his relationship with Stewart.
“Okay, there you go!” Cohen said. “When one friend goes out the door, another friend comes in the door.”
Stewart previously spoke about her differences with Garten in an interview the new Yorker on September.
Like “WWHL”, Stewart said that Garten “stopped talking to me” after he was jailed for conspiracy and obstruction of justice in 2004.
“I found it extremely annoying and extremely unfriendly,” Stewart shared.
However, Garton “strongly” denied Stewart’s side of the story.
Stewart’s publicist, Susan Magrino, also told the outlet that her client is “not bitter at all” about the controversy with Garten.
“There is no feud,” Magrino insisted.
Stewart met Garton in the early ’90s when she visited his now-closed Barefoot Contessa shop in East Hampton, New York.
“My desk was right across from the cheese case and we ended up in conversation,” Garten recalled in 2017. Time Interview. “We actually did a benefit together at her house and I was the caterer, and after that we became friends.”
Stewart helped Garton’s career in many ways. Stewart featured Garten on a 1999 episode of her show “Martha Stewart Living”, introducing her to an editor who later collaborated with her on her first cookbook, “The Barefoot Contessa”, and wrote the foreword to that book.
While Garten has admired Stewart in the past, she never agreed that they stopped being friends when Stewart was put behind bars.
In 2004, Stewart was sent to Alderson federal prison camp after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy, obstruction and lying to federal investigators. He was also charged with securities fraud, although the jury found him not guilty of that more serious charge.
She was released from jail after five months and made an incredible career comeback.
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