Martha Stewart and Ina Garten have completely different opinions on why their decades-long friendship got here to an finish.
The New Yorker revealed a profile on Garten earlier this month, and each events defined why they stopped speaking. Based on Stewart, Garten minimize ties together with her after Stewart was sentenced to jail.
“When I was sent off to Alderson Prison, she stopped talking to me,” Stewart defined. “I found that extremely distressing and extremely unfriendly.”
Though Stewart all the time maintained her innocence, she was discovered responsible of conspiracy, obstruction and two counts of mendacity to investigators concerning her 2004 insider buying and selling scandal. She acquired a five-month jail sentence, 5 months of dwelling confinement and two years of supervised probation.
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Garten has disputed Stewart’s recollection of the pair’s falling out. Garten instructed The New Yorker she and Stewart drifted aside after Stewart began spending time at her new property in Bedford, New York.
In the meantime, Stewart’s publicist doubled down on the cooking star’s unique assertion, claiming she is “not bitter at all” after the falling out.
“When I was sent off to Alderson Prison, she stopped talking to me. I found that extremely distressing and extremely unfriendly.”
“There’s no feud,” Susan Magrino instructed The New Yorker.
The pair’s historical past goes again a long time. Stewart first crossed paths with Garten after stopping by her retailer, Barefoot Contessa, in East Hampton, New York, within the ’90s.
Garten beforehand recalled her first interplay with Stewart.
“My desk was right in front of the cheese case, and we just ended up in a conversation,” she instructed Time in 2017. “We ended up actually doing benefits together where it was at her house, and I was the caterer. And we became friends after that.”
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Stewart went on to attach Gartner with an editor, which helped her launch “The Barefoot Contessa” cookbook. In 1999, Garten joined Stewart for an episode of “Martha Stewart Living.”
Garten went on to star on the Meals Community’s “Barefoot Contessa” cooking present from 2002 to 2021.
Garten and Stewart have confronted fallout rumors for years. Throughout her Time interview in 2017, Garten continued to reward Stewart.
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“I think she did something really important, which is that she took something that wasn’t valued, which is home arts, and raised it to a level that people were proud to do it, and that completely changed the landscape,” she mentioned.
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“I then took it in my own direction, which is that I’m not a trained professional chef. Cooking is really hard for me. Here I am 40 years in the food business, it’s still hard for me.”