Martha Stewart slams Netflix’s ‘shocking’ “Martha” documentary: ‘I hate those last scenes'

Stewart requested a Dr. Dre score, wanted her grandkids mentioned, and hates that an anecdote about Alan Dershowitz trying to flirt with her was not included.

Martha Stewart was quite candid with director R.J. Cutler in Martha, his new Netflix documentary about her life. She's even more candid about him now that it's out.

"Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those," Stewart told the New York Times on Wednesday, the day of Martha's premiere. "And he refused. I hate those last scenes. Hate them.”

While Stewart admits, "I love the first half of the documentary," she is ceaseless in her criticisms of what the second half includes, does not include, and how it's all treated.

One of Stewart's main criticisms of the second half of Martha is its focus on the period from 2001-2005, which saw her investigated for insider trading allegations, put on trial for obstruction of justice, and spend five months in federal prison. "It was not that important," she said. "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... the trial itself was extremely boring. Even the judge fell asleep. R.J. didn’t even put that in. The judge was asleep at the bench. I wrote it in my diary every day."

Cutler incorporates segments of the highly-detailed diary Stewart has kept throughout her life in the doc, especially in the sequence detailing the lifestyle guru's rocky separation and eventual divorce from ex-husband Andy in 1990. But what archival material were and were not used form the primary arc of her ire toward the doc.

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Stewart also said "it was just shocking" to discover that Cutler "really used very little" of the materials in her personal archive, despite the fact that he was given "total access." In addition to the letters, Martha also includes plenty of previously unseen photos and videos taken by and of Stewart over the years.

Among the most grievous omissions were her grandchildren ("There’s not even a mention. And these grandchildren are utterly fantastic."), her various travels ("My love of travel wasn’t mentioned. My trip up Kilimanjaro wasn’t mentioned!"), and encounters with the lawyer Alan Dershowitz in the 1960s ("He would be dribbling on the table. That was the fun part, all of these stories. R.J. didn’t get any of that in the movie. Can you imagine?).

Another subject of Stewart's disappointment: "I said to R.J., 'An essential part of the film is that you play rap music.' Dr. Dre will probably score it, or [Snoop Dogg] or Fredwreck. I said, 'I want that music.' And then he gets some lousy classical score in there, which has nothing to do with me."

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What she did like about Martha also illuminates for Stewart the surrounding areas for improvement. "So many girls have already told me — young women — that watching it gave them a strength that they didn’t know they had," she said. "And that’s the thing I like most about the documentary. It really shows a strong woman standing up for herself and living through horror as well as some huge success."

That's what Stewart "wanted the documentary to be," not "me boasting about inner strength and any of that crap. It should be about showing that you can get through life and still be yourself."

This criticism is hardly surprising, given Stewart's numerous attempts while being interviewed to steer Cutler in a different direction, express bewilderment at certain subjects he raises, and in a memorable moment while discussing her husband's infidelity, firmly request, "Can we get onto a happier subject?"

Martha is currently streaming on Netflix.