Martha Stewart disagrees with Ina Garten’s take on their falling out.
Stewart, 83, weighed in on the drama when she visited “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” Sunday night as the bartender to support her pal Snoop Dogg, who was one of the guests on the show.
Andy Cohen asked Stewart if she’s read Garten’s new memoir “Be Ready When The Luck Happens” yet, and Stewart confirmed she’s read the “parts” of the book that mention her.
Garten, 76, claimed in her memoir that the pair fell out of touch after Garten moved to Connecticut while Stewart lived in Bedford, New York.
“She could write whatever she wants,” Stewart said about the fellow famous chef.
As Cohen explained to Snoop, 53, what Garten said about Stewart in her book, the “Martha Knows Best” star set the record straight about their falling out.
“That’s not true,” she said about the Connecticut claim.
Snoop then came to his bestie’s defense, saying, “Martha don’t fall out with people.”
Stewart said that, from her perspective, she and Garten’s friendship ended after she “went to jail.”
“That’s when I stepped in,” Snoop joked about his bond with Stewart.
“Right, there you go!” said Cohen. “When one friend goes out the door, another friend comes in the door.”
Stewart previously addressed her falling out with Garten in an interview with The New Yorker in September.
Just like on “WWHL,” Stewart said that Garten “stopped talking to me” after she went away to prison in 2004 for charges related to conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
“I found that extremely distressing and extremely unfriendly,” Stewart shared.
Garten, however, “firmly” disputed Stewart’s side of the story.
Stewart’s publicist, Susan Magrino, also told the outlet that her client is “not bitter at all” about the fallout with Garten.
“There’s no feud,” Magrino insisted.
Stewart met Garten met in the early ’90s when she visited her since-shuttered Barefoot Contessa shop in East Hampton, New York.
“My desk was right in front of the cheese case and we just ended up in a conversation,” Garten recalled in a 2017 TIME interview. “We ended up actually doing benefits together where it was at her house and I was the caterer, and we became friends after that.”
Stewart went on to help Garten’s career in many ways. Stewart featured Garten on a 1999 episode of her show “Martha Stewart Living,” introduced her to an editor who later collaborated with her on her debut cookbook, “The Barefoot Contessa” and wrote the foreword for that book.
While Garten has praised Stewart before, she’s never agreed that they stopped being friends when Stewart was placed behind bars.
In 2004, Stewart was sent to Alderson Federal Prison Camp after being convicted of conspiracy, obstruction and two counts of lying to federal investigators. She was also accused of securities fraud, though a jury found her not guilty on that more serious charge.
She was released from prison after five months and staged an incredible career comeback.
