While everyone knows Martha Stewart as the kitchen guru, her prison mates knew her as “M. Diddy”.

In the August issue of “Vanity Fair” Stewart talks about her prosecution, being under house arrest as well as her upcoming reality show.

She remains unapologetic about being convicted of lying about selling shares of ImClone Systems stock in 2001.

“You can?t be sorry about that ? let?s see, how can I say this? I?m on appeal. You can?t appeal if you think that you should be sorry,” she says.

Stewart is under house arrest for five months after serving her previous five months in a West Virginia federal prison. She?ll be finished next month.

“I hate lockdown. It’s hideous,” says Stewart, 63.

She also complains about the electronic monitoring device on her ankle which irritates her skin. But she says that she knows how to remove it.

“I watched them put it on. You can figure how to take it off. It’s on the Internet. I looked it up,” she says.

Though Stewart never said whether or not she has ever taken off the device, the article says that her publicist’s eyes widened with surprise.

Nevertheless she takes her house arrest very seriously. She called her probation officer to apologize for arriving home two minutes late after given permission to leave her home in New York.

But prison hasn’t hurt her career one bit with two television shows debuting in the fall season. One is a one hour daytime talk show entitled “Martha” and the other is her version of Donald Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice”.

While she won’t say “You?re Fired” to eliminate contestants, Stewart has her own version of the catchphrase.

“We’re trying to come up with other ways to see it. For instance, if someone is from Idaho I could say. ‘You’re back in Boise for apple-picking time’”.






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