Martha Stewart says she was struck by lightning three times! Oh, but it gets even crazier
It’s not surprising that the perfect planner Martha Stewart already has plans for herself after she dies.
She told QVC’s “50+ & Unfiltered” podcast that when she passes away, she wants to be “composted.”
Host Shawn Killinger didn’t quite understand what the mogul meant, so she explained using the example of what she does when one of her horses dies.
"When one of my horses dies, we dig a giant hole really deep in one of my fields. We have a pet cemetery, and the horse is wrapped in a clean linen sheet and very carefully dropped down into this lovely giant grave,” she said. "I want to go there."
Killinger questioned Martha about the legality of such a plan, but she shrugged it off.
"It's not going to hurt anybody. It's my property,” she said.
To make it even clearer, Martha added, "These coffin things and all that stuff, no way."
Elsewhere in the podcast episode, the cookbook author recalled the times she was struck by lightning on three separate occasions throughout her life.
The first time it happened was in 1970 when Martha was washing her dishes in her kitchen, and the lightning came down from the sky and entered her cottage, in Middlefield, Massachusetts, via the metal piping on the property.
"I saw it go down the pipe, and then all of a sudden, it came out of the faucet in the water and zapped me right in my stomach, and threw me on the floor,” she recalled.
Martha, who was married to Andrew Stewart from 1961 to 1990, continued, "My husband was in the living room, and he came running in, and there I am lying on the floor, and I think I was hit by lightning. And it really hurt, and I had a mark on my stomach. A little burn."
The second occasion was when she was on the phone to someone in the kitchen in her Westport, Connecticut, house, when Martha saw lightning come down from the sky, and ripped "right through the phone, into my ear."
And the third time was when Martha was in her garden, but all the lightning strikes left her with "no adverse effects".
Sounds like it’ll be a while still before she has to be composted!



