Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis fainted during her infamous trial in 2004

Martha Stewart's career hit rock bottom after she was found guilty and sent to prison for obstruction and conspiracy in connection with a stock sale.

The new Netflix documentary Martha (out now) looks at the 2004 trial that some called a “slut hunt.”

“Everything she wanted to do was going to be absolutely perfect,” her friend Kathy Tatlock says in the film. “And I think in some ways it ruined her life.”

Stewart had a difficult marriage with her now ex-husband, publisher Andy Stewart. They divorced in 1990 after 29 years of marriage. But “after Andy left, I really lost myself in the work,” Martha says in the documentary. She founded a lifestyle empire that was valued at $1.2 billion in 1999. “She was like a superstar,” says attorney Allen Grubman.

In 2001 everything started to collapse. Martha remembers getting a call about a friend's biotech stock during a fuel stop on a flight to Cabo, Mexico. She sold the shares and was later convicted of lying to the FBI during an insider trading investigation in 2004.

“Guilty, guilty, guilty on all of these counts or whatever,” she says Martha. “My daughter, she fainted when they read the verdict. Poor child.”

“It was so horrible and incomprehensible,” Alexis adds. “And then I woke up and unfortunately I was still lying there.”

“Those prosecutors should have been put in a Cuisinart and cranked up,” jokes Martha. “I was a trophy for these idiots.”

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's stock plummeted and Martha resigned from the board. She reported to the Alderson Federal Prison Camp for a five-month sentence. She estimates she lost more than $1 billion in the scandal.

Martha, of course, staged the ultimate comeback. Eleven years after her prison sentence, Justin Bieber helped kick-start her reinvention. She shocked the audience at Comedy Central's roasting of Bieber in 2015 by directing sharp jibes at other roasters and herself.

“It catapulted her to a younger audience,” says friend Charlotte Beers.

She was sitting next to Snoop Dogg and the next thing she knew they were advertising Bic lighters and filming a cooking show.

“She had lived before that worrying about what people would think of her and then the worst thing that could happen happened. And she survived,” she says Martha Stewart Living Founding editor Isolde Motley. “She was released by staying in prison.”

Martha is now streaming on Netflix.