Martha Stewart, known for her impeccable standards, didn’t hold back in critiquing Netflix’s new documentary about her life. In an interview with The New York Times, Stewart praised the beginning of Martha but called the latter half “a bit lazy,” feeling it lingered too long on her prison sentence, which she described as a “vacation” in her 83-year life.
Stewart, sentenced to five months in prison and two years of supervised release in 2004 for lying about a stock sale, has previously called her time in federal prison a “horrifying experience.” Yet, her main frustration with director R.J. Cutler’s portrayal was his choice of unflattering camera angles, which she deemed “ugly,” and the lack of context around final scenes showing her recovering from a ruptured Achilles tendon.
“The final scenes make me look like a lonely old lady, hunched in the garden. I told him to cut those, but he refused,” she said. “I hate those last scenes. Hate them.”
