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...been out of prison since March and free of her ankle bracelet since Sept. 1. Now, with her conviction for lying about a stock sale on appeal, Martha Stewart is back in business. The indomitable domestic diva launches a new daily show this week and enters prime time Sept. 21 in the Donald Trump role on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. She talked to TIME's Michele Orecklin...
WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO HIRE SOMEONE WHO HAD BEEN TO PRISON, AND WOULD YOU HAVE BEEN WILLING TO DO SO THREE YEARS AGO? Absolutely, but it depends on the person and on why they were incarcerated...
...TRUE THAT ON ONE OF THE SHOWS, EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WILL WEAR THE SAME PONCHO YOU WORE WHEN YOU LEFT PRISON? When I left prison, I wore the poncho because it was a cool night and it matched my jeans and it was just gorgeous and caught everybody's eye. A couple days later, a very industrious company that sells yarn put the pattern on their website, and 1 million designs were downloaded. They let us put an invitation on their site asking anybody who made a poncho to come be in the audience of the show...
PEOPLE HAVE SAID THAT PRISON MAY HAVE HELPED YOUR IMAGE BY MAKING YOU APPEAR MORE SYMPATHETIC. DO YOU THINK THERE'S ANY TRUTH TO THAT? That may be a peculiar feature of being an American. Once you rise, you can fall and rise again. I would never wish that on anybody, but other people seem to take glee in that sort of thing...
WHAT WAS HARDER--PRISON OR HOME CONFINEMENT? Definitely home confinement. You have to watch the clock constantly because you're only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock, and knowing other people are watching the clock, is extremely difficult...