Martha Stewart Claims Ina Garten Stopped Talking to Her 'After I Went to Jail'
Garten has denied Stewart's claims and says the two lost touch when Stewart moved away
Martha Stewart and Ina Garten have a long history together.
The two celebrity cooks met in the 1990s while living in the Hamptons, N.Y. Garten went on to write a column for Martha Stewart Living and Stewart helped Garten get her first book deal after taking a publisher to Garten's specialty food store, The Barefoot Contessa.
Now the state of their friendship is being debated. While appearing on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Sunday, Oct. 20, Stewart, 83, claimed that Garten, 76, stopped talking to her when she went to jail in 2004.
Garten "firmly" denied this to The New Yorker in September. She said the two lost touch when Stewart moved away.
On Sunday's WWHL, where Snoop Dogg also appeared as a guest, host Andy Cohen asked Stewart if she had read Garten’s new memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens. “I’ve read parts of it," she replied.
He then asked Stewart if she’d “read the parts about yourself,” to which she responded, “Oh yes.”
“Ina said that they fell out because she moved to Connecticut,” Cohen, 56, explained. Stewart said, “That’s not true.” Snoop chimed in: "Martha don't fall out with people."
Stewart then alleged that the pair stopped talking “after I went to jail.”
"Yeah, because see that’s when I stepped in," Snoop added to laughs from all.
Stewart's publicist told The New Yorker in September that she was “not bitter at all and there’s no feud.”
Stewart was sent to prison for five months after being found guilty on charges including conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the sale of a stock. She was also sentenced to an additional five months of home confinement and two years of supervised probation after her prison time.
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Related: Why Did Martha Stewart Go to Prison? A Look Back at Her 2004 Fraud Case
Netflix's upcoming documentary Martha looks at the trial and her prison time.
“I was a trophy for these idiots,” Stewart says in the trailer. “I was dragged into solitary, no food or water. Those prosecutors should have been put in a Cuisinart and turned on high.”
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