Television host Martha Stewart shared her thoughts on her friendship with Ina Garten following Stewart’s arrest. “She stopped talking to me.”
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Martha Stewart, the television host, revealed that her friendship with fellow host Ina Garten suffered after Stewart’s arrest in 2004. “She stopped talking to me,” she confided.
“When I was sent to Alderson Prison, she stopped talking to me,” Stewart told The New Yorker on September 2.
The host was sentenced to five months in prison for obstruction of justice and for lying to federal investigators.
Stewart was also charged with securities fraud but was acquitted.
Ina Garten denied the claims about what happened between the two in 2004. Stewart’s publicist, Susan Magrinho, stated that her client “holds no resentment” regarding Garten’s distancing.
Stewart and Garten met in the early 1990s after Stewart found Garten’s shop to buy frozen lemon cubes following a minor incident on the road in East Hampton, New York.
“We ended up doing charity events together, where it was at her house and I was the chef, and we became friends after that,” Garten said in a 2017 interview with TIME.
Photos: Instagram @marthastewart @inagarten
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