Martha and Andrew Stewart split in 1987, igniting a drawn-out divorce process that concluded in 1991. Shortly after, Andrew went public with his relationship with Robyn Fairclough, who had worked as Martha’s assistant and as a flower consultant for her business in the past. That in itself hit Martha hard, the 1995 People report noted. And it didn’t help that Fairclough was 21 years younger than him, and much closer in age to their daughter, Alexis. Andrew’s romance with Fairclough was no fling, either.
In May 1993, the two tied the knot in New York. Perhaps Martha sensed Andrew and Fairclough had a lot in common. “What Robyn found sort of weird was that Martha would always say, ‘You and Andy would be perfect together,'” a family friend told Jerry Oppenheimer for his 1997 biography, “Just Desserts” (via the Daily Mail). But it was far from a compliment. “Martha used to push them together, laughing about it in her way, which was more of a put-down of the two of them. It was sadistic,” the source explained.
By the time her ex-husband got together with Fairclough, he and Martha weren’t on speaking terms. According to People, he obtained a court order to keep Martha from talking to him — a decision she respected for three decades. “Getting divorced was a terrible thing for me … And that we haven’t spoken since the divorce is even more painful,” she told People in 2020.
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