NEW YORK, July 5, 2005
'M. Diddy' Stewart's Prison Tales
Martha Calls House Arrest 'Hideous'; Says She Can Remove Monitor
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Martha Stewart, outside her home in Katonah, N.Y. (AP)
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Still, Stewart appears to take house arrest very seriously, noting that she once phoned her probation officer to apologize when she arrived home two or three minutes late from an approved outing.
Stewart has two TV shows planned for the fall season — a one-hour daytime talk show "Martha" and a version of Donald Trump's reality show "The Apprentice."
A federal appeals court is considering Stewart's bid to overturn her conviction on charges that she lied about her sale of 3,928 shares of ImClone Systems stock in late 2001.
Asked whether she owes anyone an apology, Stewart says she is sorry for the "chaos" her prosecution caused but suggests she is not personally to blame.
"You can't be sorry for something that — let's see, how can I say this? I'm on appeal. You don't appeal if you think that you should be sorry," she says.
The magazine reports Stewart is in good spirits and hard at work renovating her Bedford home. She is allowed to leave Bedford 48 hours per week for work outings.
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