Martha: Dear Diary, Prison's Great
Things aren't so bad at "Camp Cupcake" after all. Just ask Martha Stewart.
The locked-up domestic diva took to her marthatalks.com Website Friday to post her first comments since entering prison last week.
Stewart says the West Virginia facility, where she is serving out her five-month sentence for lying about a stock sale, is "fine...pretty much what I anticipated."
The best news, says Stewart, is that "everyone is nice--both the officials and my fellow inmates."
According to a breathless report on Federal Prison Camp Alderson in the new Star magazine, Stewart should be worried about people being too nice.
The glossy quotes an unnamed sources inside the so-called Camp Cupcake saying "the guards are 90 percent male, and sex between some of them and the inmates is commonplace." Another inmate told the magazine the female inmates also regularly engage in sexual acts.
Nevertheless, Stewart is putting on a happy face just a week into her sentence. "I have adjusted and am very busy," she continues in her letter. "The camp is like an old-fashioned college campus--without the freedom, of course."
Of course.
"I'll be making postings now and then, but thank you for the concern and good wishes expressed in the thousands of emails you have recently sent to this Website," Stewart writes. "I am also touched that supporters have already sent hundreds of letters to me at Alderson in my first week here."
The 63-year-old jailbird's future Internet postings will likely be as brief as her first. Aside from prison restrictions on her outside communication, publishing pundits expect her to save most of the juicy stuff for her prison memoirs, which could fetch upwards of $5 million.
Based on her posting, Federal Inmate 55170-054 doesn't seem lonely one week into her stint, but the sometimes dubious Star quotes an unnamed prison source as saying the guru of good things seemed "overwhelmed" and "depressed," despite an early visit from daughter Alexis.
Stewart, who was convicted in March of lying to federal investigators about a suspicious stock sale, is pursuing an appeal while she serves in the slammer.
In closing out her missive, Stewart asks well-wishers to stop sending her "gifts and money," which are a no-no for inmates--and it's not like she needs the cash. She asks instead that fans make a donation to the American Cancer Society and continue to support her.
Says Stewart, "Your goodwill and best wishes will get me through this next chapter in my life."





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