As you might recall, Martha Stewart spent five months in prison in 2004 and five months on house arrest, followed by two years of supervised probation after she was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction, and making false statements to investigators.
Even though the case is behind her now, Stewart seems to still be holding some grudges. Appearing with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show, she revealed that she was asked to host SNL shortly after she was released from prison, but wasn't allowed to.
The topic came about after Fallon asked her if she would ever be open to hosting the show.
'I wanted to and they asked me as I was coming out of Alderson, that camp that I was in for a while, and my parole officer wouldn't give me the time to do it,' Stewart admitted, in reference to Alderson Federal Prison.
'I was allowed to be out of my house eight hours a day,' she said, as Fallon asked if her parole officer had given permission.
'No, that b*****d,' Stewart joked, adding that she still has the officer's 'name and number.'
'But Lorne [Michaels] called you and said, "Would you like to host?"' Fallon asked her.
'Yeah, I'm so pissed,' Stewart said with a laugh. 'Maybe someday.'
The two then talked about how 'fantastic' of a host she would make.
'Start a campaign,' she joked.
In the past, Stewart has shared some details of her time in prison, and it was heavily discussed in her 2024 Netflix documentary, Martha.
'I knew I was strong going in and I was certainly stronger coming out,' Stewart said of her time in the facility.
However, it seems like the experience is not something she takes lightly. 'It was a very serious happening in my life. I take it very seriously,' she explained. 'I'm not bitter about it, but… My daughter knows all the problems that resulted because of that. There's a lot.'