Martha Stewart revealed that she has some complicated thoughts about the #MeToo movement.
The 79-year-old tycoon had a historic career that made her the celebrity she is today. Having modeled, worked on Wall Street and launched a successful career as a lifestyle guru, she told Harper’s Bazaar in a recent interview that she had to learn from an early age how to endure and compartmentalize the misogyny against which the movement is facing. manifesting in order to do so.
“You had to stay calm and just do what you had to do and brush them,” she told the outlet.
As a result, when the movement began to take shape in 2017, Stewart made peace with the pervasive nature of predatory men in Hollywood. However, she had to deal with the reckoning that some of her friends were experiencing.
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Martha Stewart explained how her time working on Wall Street gave her a complicated relationship with the #MeToo movement.
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“It has been very painful for me,” she told the outlet. “I met almost all the famous guys who were accused and set aside. Some were certainly guilty of a lot of what was accused. But some were – it’s just their horrible personalities. I won’t mention their names, but I know these people. very, very well, and you know that the man only talks about sex during dinner. That means nothing to me. “
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Stewart explained that she developed this attitude while working as a Wall Street stockbroker in the 1960s and 1970s. When she started, she was the only woman in her company and quickly realized that she would have to develop a thick skin to survive at the club. boys.
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“We were real. Did you see the Wall Street movie?” she said. “I lived through it. I mean, every man on Wall Street was trying to get you. Every man was trying to touch you in the taxi. We had martinis for lunch.”
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The business icon, who co-stars with Snoop Dogg in VH1’s “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Party Challenge”, explained that she was willing to play during her time on Wall Street and beyond and learned to avoid confrontations with men, beyond discomfort situations.