Martha Stewart Reveals She Kissed a Stranger on Her Honeymoon in ‘Martha:’ “He Didn’t Know I Was Married”

By Anna Menta

Martha Stewart is acold from perfectly perfect. In her caller Netflix documentary, Martha—coming to nan streamer connected October 30—the 83-year-old businesswoman admits she cheated connected her husband, Andrew Stewart. That includes a buss pinch a alien during their honeymoon, and a full-fledged matter pinch a “very attractive” Irish stockbroker successful nan early years of their marriage.

Directed by R.J. Cutler (Elton John: Never Too Late, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, The September Issue), Martha walks viewers done nan life and profession of Martha Stewart, from her childhood, to her successful homemaking guides, to her to billion-dollar company, and, finally, to her infamous incarceration. Cutler manages to seizure immoderate amazingly candid soundbites from Stewart, including an anecdote successful which she casually reveals she kissed different man while connected her honeymoon pinch her ex-husband, Andrew Stewart.

The mates was joined successful 1961, erstwhile Stewart was a 19-year-old assemblage student. Shortly aft nan wedding, they went connected what Stewart describes arsenic an “extended honeymoon to Europe. This was for illustration a five-month trip.”

Stewart remembers being successful Florence, Italy connected nan nighttime earlier Easter. She felt compelled to spell to church. Her caller hubby stayed astatine nan hotel, while she visited a cathedral.

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“It was a very romanticist place, crowded pinch tourists,” Stewart recalled. “I met this very handsome guy. He didn’t cognize I was married. I was this waif of a woman hanging retired successful nan cathedral connected Easter Eve. He was emotional, I was emotional. It was conscionable because it was an affectional place. It was dissimilar thing I had ever experienced. An expansive dome, truthful beautiful, and paintings each astir you. It was thing I had ever done before. And truthful why not buss immoderate stranger?”

At this point, Cutler cuts to a wide shot, successful which a shaper asks Stewart, “Was it uh… what’s nan connection I’m looking for…”

“Naughty?” Stewart suggests.

“Was it naughty, aliases was it infidelity?” nan shaper asks.

“It was neither naughty nor unfaithful,” Stewart replies. “It was conscionable emotional, of nan moment. That’s really I looked astatine it.”

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Later successful nan documentary, Stewart besides reveals that she had a full-blown extramarital matter erstwhile she worked arsenic a stockbroker successful nan precocious ’60s. It comes up, ironically, while Stewart is lamenting her husband’s galore affairs.

“Young women, perceive to my advice: If you’re joined and your hubby starts to cheat connected you, he’s a portion of shit,” Stewart tells nan camera.

Off camera, we perceive a shaper press, “Didn’t you person an matter early connected successful nan relationship, erstwhile you were a stockbroker?”

“Uh, yeah,” Stewart replies, seemingly caught disconnected guard. “But I don’t deliberation Andy ever knew astir that.”

Martha Stewart and husband, patient Andy Stewart, extracurricular their home, 24th March 1980. Photo: Arthur Schatz/Getty Images

The shaper tells Stewart that her ex-husband did, successful fact, cognize astir nan affair, and had told nan filmmakers he only cheated connected Stewart aft she did so, first. Stewart insists that’s not true, but she does stock a fewer specifications astir her affair.

“I had a very little matter pinch a very charismatic Irish man,” she says. “It was conscionable nothing. It was nothing. I would ne'er person surgery up a matrimony for it. It was nothing. It was nothing. It was for illustration nan buss successful nan cathedral.”

Stewart besides describes her husband’s matter pinch Robyn Fairclough, who was past 1 of Stewart’s employees, and who would spell connected to beryllium Andrew Stewart’s 2nd wife. “Robyn worked for me, and she had mislaid aliases apartment, aliases something. I said, ‘Oh, you tin move into nan barn connected nan little 2 acres,'” Steward explained. “It was for illustration I put retired a snack for Andy.”

The joined mates separated by 1987, and their divorcement was officially finalized successful 1990. They person 1 daughter, Alexis Stewart, who is now 59.

Martha will statesman streaming connected Netflix connected October 30.