In Martha, which is streaming now, Stewart accuses her husband of a number of affairs and, at one level, tells viewers, “If you happen to’re married and your husband begins to cheat on you, he is a chunk of s–t. Get out of that marriage.”

That quote was included in a trailer for the venture — and whereas Andy and spouse Shyla Nelson Stewart addressed the preview again in mid-October, their feedback are solely making headlines now. Taking to Shyla’s Fb web page, the 2 launched a joint assertion concerning the then-upcoming doc, distancing the model of Andy that Martha talks about from the Andy of the present day.

It is unclear whether or not they’ve seen the total doc and haven’t commented on it outdoors of this preliminary assertion.

“Whats up FB household – that is my first and will likely be my solely public touch upon this topic. Since I’m not lively on every other social media platform, that is the one place I’m sharing this,” Shyla wrote in a press release attributed to them each.

“As a few of , my husband is Andrew Stewart – good writer, avocational naturalist and nature photographer, and one of many gentlest, most soft-spoken, kind-hearted males I’ve ever recognized,” she continued. “Nobody was extra stunned than we when, after being launched as colleagues virtually 12 years in the past, our connection blossomed right into a deep and eternal love.”

“With our shared devotion to the Earth and to our households on the heart, Andy and I’ve constructed a lifetime of magnificence, that means, productiveness, and goal, infused with real love, which we share as absolutely as we will with our stunning blended household of 5 superb grownup youngsters, our 3 lovely grandchildren, our prolonged household, and lots of cherished pals,” the assertion went on.

“Previous to this completely happy chapter of his life, Andy had some darkish ones, together with a painful and abusive marriage to Martha (as in, Martha Stewart), which ended virtually 40 years in the past,” she wrote. “Whereas Andy quietly moved on and ahead together with his life, it seems that Martha continues to publicly relitigate the wedding, together with feedback in a sensationalized trailer for an upcoming documentary on Netflix.”

“The juxtaposition of Andy’s formative years with the joy-filled, purpose-led, loving marriage we reside immediately is hanging. Day-after-day, we brazenly categorical our gratitude for our love and for our life collectively,” she continued, earlier than concluding, “We each want everybody, together with Martha herself, the expertise of loving and being beloved deeply and absolutely, and the peace that comes from such a love.”

In hew new Netflix documentary Martha, the homemaker turned way of life mogul detailed the issues of their almost 30-year marriage, which included affairs on either side.

Early within the movie, Martha recollects kissing a “very good-looking man” in Florence’s Duomo on her European honeymoon whereas Andy was at their resort.

“He didn’t know I used to be married,” Martha says of the stranger. “I used to be this waif of a lady hanging out within the cathedral on Easter Eve. He was emotional. I used to be emotional. It is simply because it was an emotional place. It was not like something I’d ever skilled.”

She additionally had a “very temporary affair” with a “very engaging Irish man” whereas she was working as a stockbroker within the late ’60s.

“It was nothing,” the 83-year-old provides. “I might by no means have damaged up a wedding for it.”

Andy, in the meantime, instructed producers he “did not stray” till she had, however Martha remembers issues otherwise.

“He was not glad at residence,” Martha says within the movie. “I do not know what number of totally different girlfriends he had throughout this time, however I feel there have been fairly a number of.”

She even claims he had a tryst with one of many ladies who labored on the couple’s Westport, Connecticut residence. She says she confronted them concerning the affair earlier than finally kicking the worker out.

The pair share daughter Alexis, who was born in 1965.

“He is the one who wished the divorce, not I,” Martha says. “He was throwing me away. I used to be 40 years outdated. I used to be beautiful. You understand, I used to be a desirous girl. However he was treating me like a castaway. He handled me actually badly. And in return, I assume I handled him badly.”

“I have not talked to him for over 20 years, sadly,” she provides.

As for if he is seen the movie, Martha instructed PEOPLE it is New York Metropolis premiere on Oct. 21, that she has “no concept.”

Martha is now streaming on Netflix.