Martha Stewart Dishes on “Cookie-Cutter Life,” Insider Trading Scandal in ‘Martha’ Netflix Documentary Trailer  

An unrepentant Martha Stewart talks about her career rise and fall with her 2004 criminal conviction in the trailer for Martha, R.J. Cutler’s documentary about the lifestyle mogul set to hit Netflix on Oct. 30.

“I was a trophy for these idiots,” a prickly Stewart says in the teaser that chronicles her celebrated ascent from teenage model to lifestyle influencer, reality TV series host and self-made billionaire, before the domestic doyenne spent five months in prison for her role in an insider trading scandal and trial.

Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she unloaded stock just before the price plummeted. “Those prosecutors should’ve been put in a Cuisinart and turned on high,” the homemaking icon adds in the film that bowed in Sundance.

The doc by The September Issue director features intimate interviews with Stewart, who in her return from criminal disgrace today hosts dinner parties as Snoop Dogg’s buddy in the VH1 cooking show Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party.

The Martha trailer is full of footage of Stewart in her early years of fame, before her conviction slowed her business empire reign and celebrity renown. “I had to climb out of a hole,” she argues about her celebrity survival and reinvention in the trailer, which reveals a harder-edge Stewart.

“The cookie-cutter house and the cookie-cutter life, that was not for me,” she tells Cutler as the trailer includes footage of her earlier cooking and baking years on the original The Martha Stewart Show and the odd coupling of the homemaking and gangsta rap/hip-hop icons on her more recent VH1 cooking show.

“…What keeps Martha engaging is watching Cutler thrust and parry with his subject,” The Hollywood Reporter reviewer Daniel Feinberg said in his review of Martha earlier this year. “The prolific documentarian has done films on the likes of Anna Wintour and Dick Cheney, so he knows from prickly stars, and in Martha Stewart he has a heroine with enough power and well-earned don’t-give-a-f**k that she’ll only say exactly what she wants to say in the context that she wants to say it.”

Martha is produced by Jane Cha Cutler, Alino Cho, Austin Wilkin, Cutler and Trevor Smith.