Martha Stewart Claps Back at Reporter’s 'Scathing' Column Responding to Martha Thinking She Was Dead

Stewart laughed it off, and said the 'New York Post' article "will probably cause more people to watch my documentary"

Martha Stewart is trying to have the last laugh.

The lifestyle mogul appeared at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women on Nov. 7 and addressed a "scathing article" written about her in the New York Post. The column by Andrea Peyser was titled "Hey Martha Stewart, you gloated about the death of a Post columnist — but I’m alive, bitch!" Peyser penned it after Stewart claimed she was dead in her Netflix documentary Martha.

“She wrote this very scathing article today in the New York Post — my favorite newspaper," Stewart said onstage, and was met with laughs from the crowd.

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Stewart read the article headline from her phone and revealed her own cheeky reaction: “So, that will probably cause more people to watch my documentary,” she said before letting out a good chuckle of her own.

The cookbook author was onstage with Ellen McGirt, editor-in-chief of Design Observer.

Peyser had published the column earlier in the day on Nov. 7 after being alerted to her "uncredited cameo" in Martha. The film moment comes as Stewart is discussing the scene in the courtroom when was she was found guilty for lying to the FBI during an insider-trading investigation in 2004.

"New York Post lady was there, just looking so smug," said Stewart. "She had written horrible things during the entire trial. But she is dead now, thank goodness. And nobody has to put up with the crap she was writing all the time." (It is unclear why Stewart believed Peyser was dead.)

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"News of my passing came as a shock," said Peyser in her latest column.

Peyser also told New York magazine's Vulture that it has been "kind of amazing" to know she had been living in Stewart's head "rent-free" all this time.

"Somebody alerted me to it; they had seen the documentary. So of course I had to see it," she told Vulture. "And I was like, Wow. I’m just surprised. She’s very successful, she’s been through a lot of stuff, and why she should concentrate on me is kind of gobsmacking."