In a recently released trailer, the Emmy-winning television show host shares a word of warning for young women: “If you’re married and your husband starts cheating on you, he’s a piece of shit. Get out of that marriage.” When the producer asks her about her own affair early in her marriage to Andrew Stewart, the 83-year-old says bluntly, “Yes, but I don’t think Andy ever knew about that.”

The couple separated in 1987 after 26 years of marriage and divorced in 1990.

Although Stewart believes the “cookie-cutter house and the cookie-cutter life” as a “miserable housewife” were not for her, she admits the divorce was difficult. In a 2020 People magazine interview, Stewart said of the divorce: “Divorce was a terrible thing for me because we were the first to get divorced in my family… and we haven’t spoken since the divorce was even worse. painful.”

He studied law, but works in publishing

Andrew Stewart, the son of a New York investment banker, comes from a privileged background. Growing up, he lived and studied in Florida, Switzerland and Vermont. He studied philosophy at the University of Virginia before earning a law degree from Yale Law School. He subsequently obtained his LLM (Advanced Law) degree from Columbia University in New York.

He started his career in law, but moved into publishing and became president of the Harry N. Abrams company. Stewart later founded his own publishing company, Stewart, Tabori & Chang. He is now publisher emeritus at Fieldstone Publishing. According to his wife Shyla Nelson Stewart, he enjoys nature photography.

He indirectly helped Martha land her first book deal