Martha Stewart Says It Was ‘Very Easy’ To Keep Decades-Long Affair Hidden

Martha Stewart has disclosed that keeping her decade-long affair a secret while married to Andrew Stewart was “very easy.”

The celebrity chef recently admitted that she cheated on Andrew while they were married between 1961 to 1990.

Martha Stewart’s recent revelation about her past marriage comes after she shared that prosecutors in her past criminal case should be “put in a Cuisinart.”

Martha Stewart has shed more light on having an affair during her past marriage. The chef said that carrying out the act and getting away with it was “very easy” as her then-husband, Andrew, had no idea it was happening.

The home and garden guru made the revelation in a chat with businessman Lee Brian Schrager while celebrating her 100th book Wednesday night. Schrager had asked her how she successfully kept it a secret all those years, joking that it could be the subject of her next book.

“You have to be circumspect,” she told him in a video shared by the Daily Mail. Martha and Andrew tied the knot in 1961 and welcomed their only child, daughter Alexis, in 1965. The pair went their separate ways in 1987 before settling their divorce in 1990.

She went on to date Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins. However, she broke up with him after seeing “The Silence Of The Lambs,” claiming she was unable to disassociate Hopkins from the character of Hannibal Lecter.

The lifestyle mogul made the stunning revelation about her personal life in the trailer for her new Netflix documentary, “Martha,” admitting to a decades-long secret affair during her marriage.

“Young women, listen to my advice, if you’re married and your husband starts to cheat on you, he’s a piece of sh-t,” Martha said in the trailer. “Get out of that marriage.”

When a producer asked, “Didn’t you have an affair early on?” the chef answered, “Yeah, but I don’t think Andy ever knew about that.”

The new documentary follows her marriage, rise to fame in the lifestyle industry, and legal troubles.

“What does it mean to be the first female self-made billionaire in history?” she asks rhetorically at the trailer’s beginning before laughing.

She added that she was “considered crazy” as her career came together, “but it worked.”

In the late ’90s, Martha’s mom, Martha Kostyra, shared in an interview with People Magazine that her daughter’s divorce from Andrew left her “badly wounded,” adding at the time that she “doesn’t think she’ll ever get over it.”

However, more recently, in 2020, the celebrity chef told the news outlet that she was determined to move on with her life.

“Getting divorced was a terrible thing for me because we were the first to divorce in my family,” Martha said at the time. “And that we haven’t spoken since the divorce is even more painful. But I’m very strong, and I’m very motivated to get on with life.”

She added, “I have survived the rigors of time, of marriage, of childbearing, of building a business from scratch. I have survived very nicely, and I think I make the most of it.”

Recall that the former “Martha Stewart Show” host was convicted of multiple felony charges about 20 years ago after being entangled in a stock trading case.

She recently weighed in on the prosecution, declaring that the prosecutors ought to be “put in a Cuisinart.”

“I was a trophy for these idiots,” Martha said of her sentencing in the trailer for her upcoming documentary. “Those prosecutors should’ve been put in a Cuisinart and turned on high.”

“I was on the top of the world and then the worst thing that could possibly happen, happened,” the 83-year-old recalled. “I had to climb out of a hole.”

According to The New York Times, Martha was indicted by a grand jury on nine charges, including conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to federal investigators in connection to selling her ImClone stock.

She was found guilty of all charges in October 2004 and was sentenced to serve five months in an Alderson, W.Va., correctional facility.

Martha was eventually released in March 2005 and then went on to serve five months of house arrest.