Martha Stewart Admits She Cheated on Ex-Husband, Doubts He 'Ever Knew About That'

Martha Stewart might've dropped a bombshell on her ex-husband, Andrew "Andy" Stewart, some three decades after their marriage was dissolved.

On Thursday (Oct. 10), Netflix debuted the trailer for Stewart's upcoming documentary, Martha , where, at one point, she reveals having cheated on Andy during their marriage. The couple, who welcomed a daughter, Alexis, in 1965, were married from 1961 to 1990. While the author and television personality would go on to date actor Anthony Hopkins (whom she broke things off with after seeing Silence of the Lambs), Andy was her only husband.

"Young women, listen to my advice, if you’re married and your husband starts to cheat on you, he’s a piece of shit,” Stewart warns female viewers around the 30-second mark of the trailer. "Get out of that marriage."

"Didn’t you have an affair early on?" a producer asks.

Martha confesses, "Yeah, but I don’t think Andy ever knew about that."

Stewart met her future ex-husband on a blind date when he was 23 years old and a law student at Yale University. Stewart, now 83, was 19 at the time. Following the couple's separation in 1987 and divorce three years later, Andy would go on to marry Stewart's former assistant, Robyn Fairclough (although the two would ultimately divorce), and his current wife, Shyla Nelson Stewart. Andy and Shyla are Publisher Emeritus, and president and CEO, respectively, of Fieldstone Publishing.

In 2020, Stewart called divorce a "terrible thing" for her during an interview with People .

"Getting divorced was a terrible thing for me, because we were the first to divorce in my family," she told the publication. "And that we haven’t spoken since the divorce is even more painful. But I’m very strong, and I’m very motivated to get on with lif e."

Directed by R.J. Cutler (Elton John: Never Too Late, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry), Martha "pulls back the curtain on one of America’s greatest self-made icons, from her start as a teenage model to her stint as a Wall Street stockbroker to her reign as the grand dame of entertaining and good taste."

"Martha draws on hundreds of hours of intimate interviews with Stewart and those from her inner circle, along with Stewart’s private archives of diaries, letters, and never-seen-before footage," the official synopsis continues. "The film illuminates Stewart’s upbringing in a working-class family, compels us to reconsider the scandal that sent her to prison, and heralds her post-prison reinvention as the original influencer who’s still captivating new generations of fans."

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