Martha Stewart isn't a fan of how her new documentary ends

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Martha Stewart seems to have enjoyed the first half of her new Netflix documentary.

But the rest not so much.

We know this from an interview with the New York Times about the documentary Martha, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker RJ Cutler.

“I love the first half of the documentary,” Stewart told the publication. “It goes into things that a lot of people don’t know about, and that’s what I like about it.”

However, the doyenne of domesticity had some complaints.

For example, her belief that Cutler wasn't making enough use of the archives she made available to him.

“RJ had full access and really used very little,” she said. “It was just shocking.”

Although there was a part of her past, she believes the filmmaker leaned into it too much.

In 2004, Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and two years probation for lying to investigators about the sale of some of her stocks in late 2001.

“The process itself was extremely boring. Even the judge fell asleep. RJ didn’t even specify that,” Stewart told the publication.

“It wasn't that important. The trial and actual incarceration took less than two years of an 83-year life,” she said. “To be honest, I thought of it as a vacation.”

Stewart had a lot to say that she felt wasn't in the film, but she apparently really didn't like the final scenes of the film.

“Those last scenes where I look like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden?” she said, explaining that she was limping in the scene because she had just had surgery for a torn Achilles tendon. “Boy, I told him to get rid of those. And he refused. I hate these final scenes. Hate her.”

“It’s a movie, not a Wikipedia page,” Cutler told the Times.

“I'm really proud of this film and admire Martha's courage in entrusting me with the production,” he said. “I'm not surprised that it's difficult for them to recognize aspects of it.”

“Martha” is currently streaming on Netflix.