Martha Stewart used to be friends with Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren and his wife.
Lundgren took a chance on Stewart and gave her a housewares line in his stores.
Then, the day before the announcement went public, she let Lundgren know that she'd signed a deal to do a similar line at competitor JCPenney, Lundgren said court during hearings for the lawsuit his company filed.
"I felt sick to my stomach," Lundgren told the New York State Court.
The incident with Lundgren and Macy's isn't the first time Stewart has been accused of being ruthless to get ahead.
Her daughter, employees, and former best friend have all had lots to say too.
Stewart insists on personally approving the thousands of products that bear her name.
At a board meeting, Stewart was reported to walk in with a pot, slam it on the table, and say "This is crap. I don't want my name on it."
She really hates bananas.
Stewart's magazine stylists and art directors could spend a week on a shoot, only to have their work dismissed with one remark from Stewart.
“Martha would say, ‘Ugh, why are there bananas there? I hate bananas,’ ” an editor told NYMag. “There’s a list of things she loathes.”
She didn't let her daughter Alexis, sit on her bedspread growing up because it would get messed up.
Additionally, "her mother bribed her (all the clothes she wanted) to sit up straight," the Wall Street Journal reported. "The child of Martha and her ex-husband, Andrew Stewart, Alexis says she was grumpy as a child, and can be caustic now."
See the rest of the story at Business Insider
Please follow Retail on Twitter and Facebook.
