Almost 20 years after Martha Stewart was released from prison, one of the former inmates spoke about his sentence with the famous businessman.
In a CNN clip The Many Lives of Martha Stewart, Susan Spry, who claims to be Stewart’s “prison friend,” spoke about how the businessman smuggled food to bake for his friends. “Everyone smuggles food out of the kitchens,” Spry said. “I mean, what else are you going to do? Unless it’s smuggled food.”
Meg Phipps, another prisoner who was at West Virginia’s Alderson federal prison camp with Stewart, said she also received a surprise dessert from him. “The way we communicated was through notes,” Phipps said. “A handwritten note and someone in that cabin or dorm, you had to wait for someone to accept it for you.”
Phipps said he received a note with a baked apple from Martha Stewart. “She had already broached the idea of cooking in her bedroom or her country house using the microwave,” Phipps continued. “And what resources could you find? Because the baked apple had caramel and probably a little cinnamon, I suspect some of this may have come from the cafeteria, which we’re not supposed to do.”
Phipps went on to share details about Martha Stewart’s last day in prison. “We brought different dishes, but Martah did bring a caramel flan,” he added. “And I don’t know how she did it. A big part of what made prison bearable is the camaraderie of cooking and celebrating someone coming home. She thanked the people for making her time there go so well.”
Stewart served time in prison from 2004 to 2005 and was confined to her home. She was convicted of lying to investigators about a stock sale that took place in December 2001.
Martha Stewart once said ‘nothing is good’ about her time in prison
TODAY previously reported that during a 2017 interview with Katie Couric, Martha Stewart talked about how she definitely didn’t enjoy her time in prison.
“It was horrible,” he admitted. “And no one – no one – should have to go through that kind of indignity, really, except fur killers, and there are a few other categories. But no one should have to go through that. “It’s a very, very horrible thing.”
When asked if he considered prison a “growing experience,” Stewart said there was nothing good about being in prison. “What can you make lemons with lemonade? What hurts you and makes you stronger? No. None of those adages fit at all. It’s a horrible experience. There is nothing good about it, nothing.”
Stewart added that she didn’t like being separated from her family or “being maligned.”
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