Martha Stewart Shares Real Identity Of 'Dead' Writer She Slammed In Her Netflix Documentary

Martha Stewart has revealed the real identity of the deceased writer she blasted in her Netflix documentary.

Stewart had claimed that a New York Post columnist was a thorn in her flesh while covering news of her 2004 insider trading case trial. She then mentioned that the said journalist was dead now, throwing viewers into a frantic search for who she was referring to.

However, after Martha Stewart's comment went viral, another writer, Andrea Peyser, penned a scathing rebuttal, boldly declaring, "I'm alive," as she thought the chef was referring to her.

The 83-year-old lifestyle mogul has opened up on the identity of the "dead" writer she blasted in her Netflix documentary.

While talking about her 2004 trial in connection to an insider trading case, Stewart decried how the said writer wrote "horrible things" about her during the trial but then exclaimed that "she's dead now, thank goodness."

"The New York Post lady was there just looking so smug. She had written horrible things during the entire trial. She's dead now, thank goodness, and nobody has to put up with that cr-p she was writing all the time," Stewart said in her film.

Her remark seemingly sparked a firestorm as viewers tried to uncover who she was talking about.

However, she has now declared that she was actually referring to New York Times journalist Constance Hays, who she is glad is "dead."

"That was a little bit of sloppy fact-checking on the part of my team on the documentary," Stewart said, per the Daily Mail.

Hays was a long-time business reporter at the NY Times and died at the age of 44, one year after covering Stewart's trial, due to cancer.

Stewart's death remark was met with a response from New York Post's Andrea Peyser, who wrote an article declaring she was not dead, working on the assumption that the lifestyle mogul was referring to her, presumably because she also covered her trial and her publication had been named.

Peyser addressed Stewart directly in a piece published on the website, writing, "Two decades later, she's still fantasizing about (plotting?) my grisly demise."

Referring to the homemaking expert as the "domestic dominatrix," Peyser said, "It's been 20 years since Martha Stewart traded her Manolo stilettos for ballet flats, her 1,000-thread-count Egyptian cotton bedsheets for a lumpy, polyester blend-covered bunk bed -the bottom half, she moaned - as she became the most fabulous and furious inmate ever to grace Club Fed."

The columnist joked, "News of my passing came as a shock. Should I be scared about continuing to write that 'cr-p?'" before calling Stewart a "petty and abusive perfectionist."

Meanwhile, Stewart doubled down on her revelation that she was referring to Hays, not Peyser, slamming the latter in the process.

According to the Daily Mail, the chef noted that Peyser's name wasn't directly mentioned in the film and that she had "no idea" why she assumed the reference was about her.

She went on to share her deep dislike for the late Hays, calling her out for her work on her trial coverage.

"I'm sorry for her family, but I did not like Constance Hays. I did not like what she did to me every day. It was horrible, and not very accurate and not very true and not very nice," she said.

Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of felony charges of conspiracy to obstruct, of obstruction of an agency proceeding, and of making false statements to federal investigators in relation to her insider trading case.

She was sentenced in July 2004 to serve a five-month term in a federal correctional facility and a two-year period of supervised release.

Meanwhile, the billionaire lifestyle expert is seemingly unsatisfied with her Netflix documentary after labeling it "lazy."

She bashed the director for using unflattering camera angles and admitting she hates the film's final shots, hinting that she may look to work on another such project.

During an appearance on "The Tonight Show," host Jimmy Fallon asked the chef if she was "happy with the documentary," and she admitted she wasn't as a lot was left out.

"Yeah, the documentary is fine. It left out a lot, so I'm going to talk to them about maybe doing Version 2," Stewart said, per the Daily Mail.

While still speaking about how dislike of her Netflix documentary, Stewart said, "There's a lot more to my life. I've lived a long time, and I just thought maybe we've left out some stuff. Good stuff."

Fallon also asked if she enjoyed "the process," mentioning scenes where she tells the director to skip certain things.

"No, I didn't like it," she replied, "I don't like going to psychiatrists and talking about your feelings and all that stuff. And the director was so intense on delving."