Now that’s Brat.
Charli XCX hosted “Saturday Night Live” this weekend and talked about Martha Stewart’s feud with The Publish journalist Andrea Peyser throughout her opening monologue.
The singer, 32, used Stewart, 83, wrongly claiming Peyser was lifeless in her Netflix documentary, and Peyser’s subsequent “I’m alive bitch!” clapback, for instance of what “brat” is.
“Honestly, it’s just like an attitude,” mentioned Charli. “It’s a vibe. For example, the new Martha Stewart documentary: When Martha gets mad about an old magazine article and she says that she’s glad the journalist who wrote it is dead, that is brat.”
“And then last Friday, when that exact journalist responded and said, ‘Hey I’m alive, bitch,’ that is extremely brat,” Charli added.
The “Apple” singer then declared that “anyone can be Brat,” as she was joined onstage by “SNL” alum Kyle Mooney.
Peyser completely advised The Publish, “Phrase to Mistress Martha: I’m nonetheless alive. Bitch. I’m floored to be referred to as ‘extremely ‘brat’ on SNL. And thrilled that Martha Stewart is merely ‘brat.’ I’m, nonetheless, nonetheless a bit frightened to have lived so lengthy, rent-free, in Martha’s head.
Within the “Martha” documentary, Stewart talked concerning the “New York Post lady” who wrote “horrible” issues about her throughout her 2004 trial for an insider buying and selling scheme. The well-known homemaker served 5 months in jail for her crimes.
“But she is dead now, thank goodness,” Stewart mentioned about Peyser, with out ever naming her.
“And nobody has to put up with the crap she was writing all the time,” she added.
However Peyser — who lined Stewart’s six-week trial from the Manhattan courtroom nearly every day for The Publish — responded to Stewart: “I’m alive, bitch.”
“News of my passing came as a shock. Should I be scared about continuing to write that ‘crap’?” the author added in her Nov. 7 column.
“Long after she and her insider tip-giving stockbroker Peter Bacanovic were convicted of securities fraud and other crimes, then lying about it to federal investigators, her thoughts are not with her family, her pink-slipped employees, her mini-menagerie of animals, or even her own miserable self. She’s focused her fury at me,” Peyser wrote.
She additionally mentioned, “Martha thinks I’m ‘dead.’ But rather than feeling angry or worried that Martha has offed me, or to seek an emergency order of protection, I am overwhelmingly sad in the face of Martha’s bitterness.”
Stewart responded to Peyser’s column whereas talking on the Philadelphia Convention for Girls occasion, telling the viewers, “She wrote this very scathing article today in the New York Post — my favorite newspaper.”
After studying Peyser’s headline, which triggered audible gasps from the viewers, Stewart added, “So, that will probably cause more people to watch my documentary.”
The previous discuss present host additionally doubled down on her innocence, calling her securities fraud misdeeds “a crime I didn’t commit.”
