8 of the most surprising revelations from Martha Stewart's candid new Netflix documentary

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Martha Stewart said her begetter slapped her erstwhile she exchanged rings because her fiancé was Jewish.

Stewart revealed what it was for illustration increasing up pinch six siblings successful Nutley, New Jersey. She said her thrust for perfectionism came from her father, Edward Kostyra.

"Dad made each of america study really to garden. He could turn anything," Stewart says successful nan documentary. "I was nan perfect daughter. I wanted to learn, he had a batch to teach, and I listened."

"It was very evident to everybody that I was his favorite," she added. "He thought I was much for illustration him than nan different children."

But Stewart said her begetter was besides a "dissatisfied, unhappy quality being" who would sometimes statesman nan time pinch a solid of reddish vino alongside his coffee. Frank Kostyra, 1 of Stewart's brothers, said their begetter would whip his children pinch a yardstick aliases nan extremity of a belt.

Stewart said her begetter besides deed her erstwhile she told him that she was engaged to Andrew Stewart.

"I went location and told my dad, and my dada slapped me," she recalled. "He slapped maine difficult connected my look and said, 'No, you're not marrying him. He's a Jew.'"

"I retrieve getting that slap," Stewart added. "I was not astatine each amazed because he was a bigot and he was impulsive. But I said, 'I'm going to get joined nary matter what you think.'"

Stewart kissed a alien while she was connected her honeymoon successful Italy.

Stewart and her hubby took a five-month honeymoon astir Europe aft they sewage joined erstwhile she was 19.

In nan documentary, Stewart recalls a nighttime erstwhile she visited a celebrated cathedral successful Florence while Andrew opted to enactment backmost successful their edifice room.

"Listening to that astonishing euphony successful nan cathedral, it was a very romanticist place," Stewart said. "I met this very handsome guy. He didn't cognize I was married. I was this waif of a woman hanging retired successful nan cathedral connected Easter Eve."

"He was emotional, I was emotional, it was dissimilar thing I had ever experienced," she added. "And so, why not buss a stranger?"

At this point, Cutler interjects and asks Stewart, "Were you being, what's nan connection I'm looking for…"

"Naughty?" Stewart asks.

"Was it naughty, aliases was it infidelity?" Cutler replies.

"It was neither naughty nor unfaithful," Stewart says. "It was conscionable emotional, of nan moment. That's really I looked astatine it. I wish we could each acquisition specified an evening."

Stewart said she was nan only female astatine her patient erstwhile she was moving arsenic a stockbroker.

After working arsenic a exemplary successful her teens and getting her history grade from Barnard College, Stewart group her sights connected Wall Street. But successful 1968, location were nary different women astatine her firm.

"I had to benignant of put my limb retired for illustration that," Stewart says successful nan documentary. "The worldly that went connected successful nan backmost spot of nan taxis, I'm not moreover gonna talk about."

But Stewart said she learned a batch during her stockbroker days, particularly really to "behave astir billionaires."

Stewart said she made a 4th of a cardinal dollars a twelvemonth astatine her firm. When she started to pain out, she discontinue Wall Street and moved her family to Turkey Hill Road successful Westport, Connecticut.

Her first location renewal astatine Turkey Hill Road is why Stewart wanted to go a homemaker.

"If I hadn't had Turkey Hill, I would not beryllium maine correct now," Stewart says successful nan documentary. "I would've been somebody; I would've been personification else. I conscionable wouldn't person been Martha Stewart, homemaker."

Stewart recalls really she renovated nan full estate, coating it from apical to bottommost and planting each azygous character successful nan monolithic gardens pinch her ain 2 hands.

"Those early days connected Turkey Hill Road made maine recognize that I really did bask homemaking, homekeeping, keeping a home," she said.

Stewart said she loved entertaining astatine her location truthful overmuch she decided to commencement a catering company. It became a million-dollar business.

"That was nan opening of Martha Stewart," she added.

Stewart and her hubby some had affairs during their marriage.

Stewart discusses nan fallout of her matrimony to Andrew astatine magnitude successful "Martha," saying he many times cheated connected her while they were together. They were joined from 1961 to 1990.

In nan documentary, Stewart said 1 of her ex-husband's affairs was pinch a female she had hired to do nan flower arrangements astatine Turkey Hill. When nan woman mislaid her apartment, Stewart invited her to move into nan barn connected their property.

"When I was traveling, Andy started up pinch her," Stewart said. "It was for illustration I put retired a snack for Andy."

"Young women, perceive to my advice: If you're married, and you deliberation you're happily married, and your hubby starts to cheat connected you, he's nan portion of shit," she added. "And look astatine him arsenic a portion of crap and get retired of that marriage."

At this constituent successful nan documentary, Cutler interjects to inquire Stewart if she'd had an matter early connected successful their marriage.

"I don't deliberation Andy ever knew astir that," Stewart says.

"He did opportunity he knew astir that," Cutler tells her. "He said he didn't stray from nan matrimony until you told him you had already strayed."

"Oh, that's not true, I don't think," Stewart replies.

"But what happened, you had an affair?" Cutler asks.

"I had a very little matter pinch a very charismatic Irishman," Stewart says. "I would've ne'er surgery up a matrimony for it. It was nothing. It was for illustration nan buss successful nan cathedral."

Stewart besides revealed entries from nan diary she kept while successful prison.

Stewart kept a diary while she was successful Alderson. On her very first day, she described being portion searched.

"Squat, arms out, cough. Embarrassing," she writes.

In nan pursuing entries, Stewart notes nan "unhealthy furniture set" successful her situation cell, nan "very mediocre value of food" successful nan cafeteria, and nan deficiency of fertilizer, pots, aliases seeds successful nan greenhouses.

She besides revealed 1 lawsuit successful which she was forced to walk a time successful solitary confinement without nutrient aliases h2o aft she brushed an officer's cardinal concatenation while complimenting her outfit.

In possibly nan astir revealing entry, Stewart discusses her sorrow while serving time.

"I consciousness very inconsequential today," she writes. "As if nary 1 would miss maine if I ne'er came backmost to reality."