Martha Stewart and Ina Garten have faced feud rumors for years. However, after Garten claimed the distance in their friendship was about nothing more than just Stewart's move to Connecticut, Stewart all but confirmed the feud during print and television appearances in the fall. And while the Barefoot Contessa herself has remained quite tight-lipped since Stewart's public shading, she is finally speaking out about her alleged frenemy—or at least about the public's comparisons of the two.

During an episode of Oprah Winfrey's podcast—appropriately titled the "Oprah Podcast"—Winfrey said she felt publishers "were trying to change" Garten into a Martha Stewart carbon copy. Garten's response? "Just trust your vision."

"I think the thing that works is if you're really true to who you are, if you believe in it so fiercely, somebody out there is gonna believe in it too," Garten told Winfrey in the episode, which came out on Christmas Eve. "Just put out who you are and do the best job you can possibly do."

Garten first addressed the alleged feud in her new memoir, which was released in October 2024. She blamed the distance between the domestic divas over actual distance—specifically, Stewart's move out of New York City in 1971. Stewart's side of the story is much different.

"When I was sent off to Alderson Prison, she stopped talking to me," Stewart told The New Yorker in September. "I found that extremely distressing and extremely unfriendly." Although Garten refuted the claim and denied a feud after the interview, Stewart seemingly doubled down during an October appearance on Watch What Happens Live. She went as far to say Garten's comments in the book about their friendship fallout were "not true."

"She can write whatever she wants," she added on air. Despite the comments, her publicist later told The New Yorker that Stewart was "not bitter at all" and said "there's no feud."

The pair formed a friendship early in Garten's career, reports Us Weekly. Garten even credited Stewart for playing a role in her success after the two met at the now-closed Barefoot Contessa shop in East Hampton.

"My desk was right in front of the cheese case, and we just ended up in a conversation," Garten said during an interview in 2017. "We ended up actually doing benefits together where it was at her house, and I was the caterer, and we became friends after that."

She added that Stewart took "something that wasn't valued, which is home arts, and raised it to a level that people were proud to do it."

"That completely changed the landscape," Garten said. "I then took it in my own direction, which is that I'm not a trained professional chef, cooking is really hard for me—here I am 40 years in the food business, it's still hard for me."