The more we hear about the upcoming documentary , the more we realize how much kept hidden behind her polished persona. Now we鈥檙e learning the lifestyle expert had a romantic kiss with a stranger in Italy while on a honeymoon with her now-ex-husband.
Through the trailer for Martha 鈥 a movie that hits on Wednesday, October 30 鈥 we already knew that she . But in quotes from the documentary now hitting the press, Martha reveals another extramarital encounter.
Martha tells documentarian that she and Andrew took a five-month trip through Europe for their honeymoon and that the kiss happened one night in Florence, per .
鈥淸Andrew] didn鈥檛 have any interest in going to the Duomo with me,鈥 she says. 鈥淟istening to that amazing music in the cathedral鈥 It was a very romantic place, crowded with tourists, and I met this very handsome guy.鈥
She continues: 鈥淗e didn鈥檛 know I was married. I was this waif of a girl hanging out in the cathedral on Easter Eve. He was emotional. I was emotional. It鈥檚 just because it was an emotional place. It was unlike anything I had ever experienced. An expansive dome. So beautiful, and paintings all around you. It was like nothing I had ever done before. And so why not kiss a stranger?鈥
But the doyenne of domesticity says she was being 鈥渘either naughty nor unfaithful.鈥
鈥淚t was just emotional of the moment,鈥 she explains. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 how I looked at it. And it was exciting because, I mean, it was a very emotional place. I wish we could all experience such an evening.鈥
Martha and Andrew were married from 1961 to 1990, during which time they welcomed daughter Alexis.
鈥淚f you鈥檙e married and your husband starts to cheat on you, he鈥檚 a piece of s**t,鈥 Martha says in the documentary鈥檚 trailer. 鈥淕et out of that marriage.鈥
Along with revelations about Martha鈥檚 public successes and failures 鈥 including, of course, her insider trading scandal and subsequent prison sentence 鈥 the documentary promises to delve deeper into her personal life.
鈥淲hat is more important, a marriage or a career? 鈥 I don鈥檛 know,鈥 she says in the trailer. 鈥淭he cookie-cutter house and the cutter-cutter life, that was not for me. 鈥 I could鈥檝e just been a miserable has-been housewife. But I didn鈥檛 let that happen to myself, and I鈥檓 so happy I didn鈥檛.鈥
Martha, Wednesday, October 30, Netflix
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