Martha Stewart Doesn’t Think She and Ina Garten Will Be Friends Again (Exclusive)

Martha Stewart isn’t expecting a reunion with Ina Garten anytime soon.

The lifestyle expert, 83, exclusively shared with PEOPLE at the New York premiere of her Netflix documentary Martha on Monday, Oct, 21, that she doesn’t see herself and Garten, 76, reigniting their friendship — and she’s fine with that.

“No, she’s into her own thing. That’s okay,” Stewart tells PEOPLE. 

The celebrity cooks met and became friends in the 1990s in the Hamptons, N.Y., where they both lived. Garten later penned a column for Martha Stewart Living and secured her first book deal with Stewart’s help after bringing a publisher to her specialty food store, The Barefoot Contessa.

Stewart’s response over her broken friendship with Garten comes after she claimed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Oct. 20 that Garten stopped talking to her “after I went to jail” in 2004.

While discussing Garten’s new memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens on the show, which Stewart said she’d “read parts of,” host Andy Cohen recalled Garten saying in the book “that they fell out because she moved to Connecticut.”

“That’s not true,” responded Stewart, before sharing her thoughts on when Garten stopped communicating with her.  

Stewart repeated her claims to The New Yorker in September. Garten firmly denied the allegations to the outlet, saying that the pair lost touch when Stewart moved away. 

Stewart’s publicist told The New Yorker in September that she was “not bitter at all and there’s no feud.”

Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison followed by five months of home confinement and two years of supervised probation in 2004, after being found guilty on charges including conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the sale of a stock. She was released in March 2005.

Stewart resumed her television career after leaving prison and branched out into various other successful business ventures in the following years.

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In Netflix’s upcoming documentary Martha, Stewart’s personal and professional journey is explored 20 years on and her time in federal prison is also addressed.

At the premiere, Stewart shared with PEOPLE her hopes of what fans will take away from the doc, “I just hope that everyone gets a few life lessons from the film tonight and understands what’s been going on.”

Martha streams on Netflix on Oct. 30.