Martha Stewart’s tragic lifehas not been one free from scrutiny.

The media mogul especially found herself under pressure amid thetrading scandal that landed her behind barsin 2004.

Stewart recalled seeing Peyser in the courtroom inthe Netflix documentaryabout her life, “Martha.”

Martha Stewart at the 2024 WWD Honors at Cipriani South Street

She said, “New York Post lady was there, just looking so smug.

She had written horrible things during the entire trial.

But she is dead now, thank goodness.

Martha Stewart at the New York Premiere of Martha in 2024

And nobody has to put up with the crap she was writing all the time.”

However, Peyser is alive and well, still writing for The New York Post.

“I’m alive, b***h!”

she wrote in hercolumnfollowing Stewart’s comment.

“News of my passing came as a shock.

What were these “horrible things” Stewart recalled Peyser having written about her?

And it’s clear this coverage left a lasting impression.

One of them read, “It was so overblown in the media.

Men have done far worse but received scant attention but, most importantly, evaded prosecution.”

She is a character in a soap opera who is muffing her lines.”

It’s still a mystery why Stewart believed Peyser was dead.