Now that’s Brat.
Charli XCX hosted “Saturday Night Live” this weekend and mentioned Martha Stewart’s feud with The Post journalist Andrea Peyser during her opening monologue.
The singer, 32, used Stewart, 83, wrongly claiming Peyser was dead in her Netflix documentary, and Peyser’s subsequent “I’m alive bitch!” clapback, as an example of what “brat” is.
“Honestly, it’s just like an attitude,” said Charli. “It’s a vibe. For example, the new Martha Stewart documentary: When Martha gets mad about an old magazine article and she says that she’s glad the journalist who wrote it is dead, that is brat.”
“And then last Friday, when that exact journalist responded and said, ‘Hey I’m alive, bitch,’ that is extremely brat,” Charli added.
The “Apple” singer then declared that “anyone can be Brat,” as she was joined onstage by “SNL” alum Kyle Mooney.
Peyser exclusively told The Post, “Word to Mistress Martha: I’m still alive. Bitch. I’m floored to be called ‘extremely ‘brat’ on SNL. And thrilled that Martha Stewart is merely ‘brat.’ I am, however, still a bit frightened to have lived so long, rent-free, in Martha’s head.
In the “Martha” documentary, Stewart talked about the “New York Post lady” who wrote “horrible” things about her during her 2004 trial for an insider trading scheme. The famous homemaker served five months in jail for her crimes.
“But she is dead now, thank goodness,” Stewart said about Peyser, without ever naming her.
“And nobody has to put up with the crap she was writing all the time,” she added.
But Peyser — who covered Stewart’s six-week trial from the Manhattan courtroom almost daily for The Post — responded to Stewart: “I’m alive, bitch.”
“News of my passing came as a shock. Should I be scared about continuing to write that ‘crap’?” the writer added in her Nov. 7 column.
“Long after she and her insider tip-giving stockbroker Peter Bacanovic were convicted of securities fraud and other crimes, then lying about it to federal investigators, her thoughts are not with her family, her pink-slipped employees, her mini-menagerie of animals, or even her own miserable self. She’s focused her fury at me,” Peyser wrote.
She also said, “Martha thinks I’m ‘dead.’ But rather than feeling angry or worried that Martha has offed me, or to seek an emergency order of protection, I am overwhelmingly sad in the face of Martha’s bitterness.”
Stewart responded to Peyser’s column while speaking at the Philadelphia Conference for Women event, telling the audience, “She wrote this very scathing article today in the New York Post — my favorite newspaper.”
After reading Peyser’s headline, which caused audible gasps from the audience, Stewart added, “So, that will probably cause more people to watch my documentary.”
The former talk show host also doubled down on her innocence, calling her securities fraud misdeeds “a crime I didn’t commit.”
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