Martha Stewart is singing like a bird when it comes to her feud with Ina Garten.
In a new New Yorker profile on the Barefoot Contessa’s life and career, a close friend of Snoop Dogg told the magazine that he stopped speaking to Garten after she went to prison in 2004 for insider trading.
“When I got sent to Alderson, she stopped speaking to me,” Stewart told The New Yorker in a Sept. 9 interview. “I found that very sad and very unfriendly.” But Garten told the magazine that as Stewart spent more time at her new facility in Bedford, New York, her former friends lost contact.
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The lifestyle guru infamously served a five-month sentence for lying to federal agents about stock sales. She was released from Camp Alderson, a federal prison in West Virginia, in March 2005. After Stewart’s comments to The New Yorker, her publicist and friend Susan Magrino tried to assure the magazine that there was “no hard feelings, no feud” with the former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model.
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The New Yorker detailed the rise and fall of Stewart’s relationship with the Food Network star, noting that Stewart was a huge fan of the famous lemon bars from Garten’s Specialty Foods in the Hamptons (now closed).
The two subsequently developed a personal friendship and working relationship. In 2000, the former “Martha Stewart Show” host’s production company launched a show starring Garten called “Someone’s in the Kitchen with Ina” for the Food Network, but it never made it to air.
“I remember telling my mom about it, and she said, ‘Why would she want you?'” Garten recalled, with Stewart attributing it to Garten’s “widespread popularity.” However, Stewart seemed to add a bit of backbiting, telling The New Yorker that while she “loved coconut cupcakes,” she’d never made Garten’s recipe.
“The Barefoot Contessa” first aired in 2002, and two years later, Stewart said, everything changed: Garten now stars in the Food Network show “Be My Guest,” inviting celebrities to chat and cook for her.