Martha Stewart Playfully Pushes Drew Barrymore Away Throughout On-Air Interview

Martha Stewart acquired slightly pushy on The Drew Barrymore Show, however the second was all in good enjoyable.

Throughout Stewart’s look on Barrymore’s discuss present on Tuesday, Nov. 12, Barrymore requested the approach to life mogul what makes her really feel delicate and gooey. The query briefly stumped Stewart, 83, who mulled over the query.

“What makes me delicate and gooey? Gentle and gooey,” she mused, including, “Remedy.”

“Gentle and gooey remedy,” repeated Barrymore as she gently rubbed Stewart’s shoulder. “If you’re handled like a girl.”

“In fact. It’s good,” replied Stewart, telling Barrymore, “You’re the unsuitable gender.”

After her humorous quip, Stewart playfully pushed Barrymore, 49, away. The daytime host exaggeratedly fell again on the sofa because the viewers laughed and clapped.

Whereas Stewart constructed a life-style empire, she has made room at instances for love. She was beforehand married to Andrew Stewart, whom she wed in 1961 and divorced in 1990. (The 2 share daughter Alexis Stewart.)

In an interview with PEOPLE in 1995, Martha’s mom, Martha Kostyra, admitted that the divorce “badly wounded” Martha, including, “I don’t suppose she’ll ever recover from it.”

Martha, for her half, told PEOPLE in 2020 that she was motivated to maneuver on together with her life following the break up.

“Getting divorced was a horrible factor for me, as a result of we have been the primary to divorce in my household,” Martha mentioned. “And that we haven’t spoken because the divorce is much more painful. However I’m very robust, and I’m very motivated to get on with life.”

Along with being romantically linked over time with Anthony Hopkins and Mort Zuckerman, the previous CEO of U.S. Information & World Report, Martha dated Charles Simonyi — cocreator of Microsoft Phrase  —  for 15 years, from 1993 to 2008, after they initially developed a friendship.

In Martha, the Netflix documentary about her life, Stewart described Simonyi as a “complete genius” and known as their break up a “second divorce,” though the 2 by no means married.

Although Simonyi merely referred to Martha as his “good friend,” the pair have been typically noticed attending occasions collectively.

“We began to go in every single place collectively. It was a special type of life,” Martha mentioned in Martha. “He had his personal jet, he was constructing a ship in Germany and I began engaged on the boat with him.”

Simonyi remained supportive of Martha throughout her 2004 trial, the place she confronted felony fees for allegedly mendacity a couple of 2001 inventory commerce. (She was finally convicted.) The couple reportedly break up in February 2008, with Martha sharing in Martha that life after jail was “much less thrilling” — an element that led to the breakup.

Throughout an look on E! Insider Shop With Martha Stewart in 2023, the resilient entrepreneur shared her ideas on how she beforehand approached work and love.

“If I analyze my life, I feel the work has taken priority over the romance,” Stewart mentioned then. “I’ve a tough time making room for each and it isn’t the best precedence that I’ve a boyfriend, however it might be good.”

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The Drew Barrymore Present airs weekdays on CBS (verify native listings).