NEW YORK – Martha Stewart says in a new interview that her nickname in prison was M. Diddy, that house arrest is “hideous” and that her prosecution was about bringing her down “to scare other people.”
Stewart, 63, is serving a five-month term of house arrest at her Bedford, N.Y., estate that followed five months in a West Virginia federal prison for lying about a personal stock sale. She is scheduled to go free early in August.
“I hate lockdown. It’s hideous,” Stewart tells the August issue of Vanity Fair magazine, which hits newsstands on Tuesday.
Asked about the electronic monitoring device she must wear on her ankle – she has complained repeatedly that it irritates her skin – Stewart says she knows how to remove it.
“I watched them put it on. You can figure out how to get it off,” she is quoted as saying. “It’s on the Internet. I looked it up.”
Her publicist’s eyes “widened with alarm” when Stewart made the remark. The article didn’t say whether Stewart claimed to have ever taken off the device.
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