Martha Stewart is not happy with the way her new Netflix documentary, “Martha,” had turned out.
The lifestyle guru, 83, ripped into the doc’s filmmaker, R.J. Cutler, over the final result, saying it’s “shocking” how little of her archive he used despite her giving him “total access.”
“Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those. And he refused. I hate those last scenes. Hate them,” she told The New York Times.
The documentary, released Wednesday, looked back at Stewart’s life and hardships, including her 2004 Alderson Federal Prison Camp stint, which she claims should not have been the main focus of the movie’s second half.
“The trial and the actual incarceration was less than two years out of an 83-year life,” she said. “I considered it a vacation, to tell you the truth.”
The former self-made billionaire also blasted the documentary’s soundtrack, saying Cutler got “some lousy classical score in there, which has nothing to do with me.”
She insisted that the filmmaker ignored her request to “play rap music,” which she said is an “essential part of the film.”
Still, it wasn’t all bad, thanks to the film’s first half.
“I love the first half of the documentary. It gets into things that many people don’t know anything about, which is what I like about it,” the “Martha Stewart Living” founder told the outlet.
“That’s what I wanted the documentary to be. It shouldn’t be me boasting about inner strength and any of that crap. It should be about showing that you can get through life and still be yourself.”
Reacting to Stewart’s scathing remarks, Cutler told the outlet that the documentary is “a movie, not a Wikipedia page.”
“It’s the story of an incredibly interesting human being who is complicated and visionary and brilliant,” he said.
“I am really proud of this film, and I admire Martha’s courage in entrusting me to make it. I’m not surprised that it’s hard for her to see aspects of it.”
“Martha” is available to stream on Netflix.
