Martha Stewart fell apart after learning that her ex-husband, Andrew Stewart, was cheating on her while they were still married.
The Netflix documentary “Martha” addresses the respective affairs that Martha, 83, and Andrew both had back in the day, including how Martha handled her then-husband’s infidelity.
The famous homemaker’s friend, Kathy Tatlock, explained in the doc how Andrew cheated on Martha with her former assistant, Robyn Fairclough.
“There were rumors floating around that Andy had some sort of involvement with the girl who was doing the flower arrangements at Turkey Hill Farm,” said Tatlock, referring to the Stewarts’ Westport, Connecticut home.
“Martha was picking up on everything and getting more and more upset,” Tatlock recalled. “She would be frantic. Migraines and sleeplessness. At one point she showed me where she tore her hair out of her own head. She was mean to her staff.”
“She had lost control of Andy,” Martha’s pal added, “so she was making everybody pay.”
Martha told producers that she let Fairclough live in an apartment on her Turkey Hill Farm.
“When I was traveling, Andy started up with her,” Martha claimed. “It was like I put out a snack for Andy.”
The former “Martha Stewart Show” host confirmed that she confronted Fairclough and “kicked her out immediately” after learning of the affair.
“You know, ‘What the hell are you doing?’” said Martha, adding, “Andy betrayed me, right on our property. Not nice.”
“It’s hard for me personally to talk about it,” the celebrity chef also said about her ex-husband’s affair. “Some people revel in this self-pity. I just don’t. I handed over letters that were very personal. So, guess what — take it out of the letters.”
In the letters Martha gave to producers, she wrote, “Dearest Andy. I cannot sleep. I cannot eat. My skin is worried and many lines that were not there are now there. I am agonizingly jealous of your other women. I can’t bear that you use what we did together on others.”
“I’m in a really fragile, breakable state right now,” Martha also wrote. “I really feel physically ill because of all this — as if my brain were about to break.”
Martha claimed in the doc that Andrew was “the one who wanted the divorce, not I.” The exes were married from 1961 to 1990 and have one child, daughter Alexis Stewart, 59.
“He was throwing me away,” Martha said. “I was 40 years old. I was gorgeous. You know, I was a desirous woman. But he was treating me like a castaway. He treated me really badly. And in return, I guess I treated him badly.”
As for Martha’s own infidelity, she admitted she had a “very brief affair” with a “very attractive Irish man” in the late 1960s.
“It was nothing,” she said. “I would never have broken up a marriage for it.”
Martha thought Andrew never knew about her affair — but director R.J. Cutler told her otherwise.
“He says he didn’t stray from the marriage until you told him you had already strayed,” Cutler said to Martha.
“Oh, that’s not true. I don’t think,” Martha responded.
Martha met Andrew on a blind date when he was a 23-year-old Yale law student.
After their divorce, Andrew married Fairclough. The two eventually divorced.
Andrew later got remarried in 2016 to Shyla Nelson Stewart, the president and CEO of Fieldstone Publishing.
It’s been reported that Andrew is “furious” over his ex-wife’s confession about her own affair in the doc.
The Post has reached out to Andrew for comment.
“Martha” is streaming on Netflix.
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