Journalist Has Scathing, NSFW Response to Martha Stewart’s Bizarre Mistake

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“I’m alive, b****!”

That was New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser’s response to a line in the new Netflix documentary, Martha, which follows the life and career of lifestyle guru Martha Stewart.

Peyser, a writer who had covered Stewart’s 2004 trial for securities fraud and other crimes, got an unexpected name drop of sorts in the documentary. During the film, while Stewart was discussing her experience being on trial, the 83-year-old referred to Peyser as a “New York Post lady.” Stewart said that Peyser “had written horrible things during the entire trial,” and then went on to say that the journalist was “dead now, thank goodness. And nobody has to put up with the crap she was writing all the time.”

Peyser, who is still very much alive, responded to the bizarre misstep with a scathing takedown of the multi-millionaire. In the op-ed, she did not deny criticizing Stewart harshly.

“At the time, I rightly noted that Stewart was an ‘ill-mannered dominatrix,’ ‘the queen of control freaks’ and ‘a dame who made a billion treating her inferiors like pond scum,'” she wrote. But Peyser was surprised that the businesswoman had “focused her fury” by assuming she had died.

“News of my passing came as a shock,” she wrote. “Should I be scared about continuing to write that ‘crap’?”

Stewart has heavily critiqued the documentary about herself, which also revealed inside details about her marriage and her own ambivalence about becoming a mother. One of her criticisms was that the film put too much emphasis on her trial and imprisonment. “

“It was not that important,” Stewart told The New York Times. “The trial and the actual incarceration was less than two years out of an 83-year life. I considered it a vacation, to tell you the truth.”