Subject:  Martha Stewart: "LET me focus on my Salad dammit!" |
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Date Posted: 00:26:24 06/27/02 Thu
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Martha Stewart said Tuesday she wants "to focus on my salad," but paused from cabbage-slicing to predict that the investigation of her stock dealings will be resolved and "I will be exonerated of any ridiculousness."
CBS host Jane Clayson introduced Stewart's weekly segment on "The Early Show" with a summary of events surrounding Stewart's sale of ImClone stock.
Congressional investigators are examining whether Stewart had inside information when she sold nearly 4,000 shares of the biotech company a day before the Food and Drug Administration announced that it had decided not to consider ImClone's experimental drug for combating colorectal cancer.
CBS said Stewart agreed to discuss the stock sale in order to appear on the show.
Stewart, methodically slicing the makings of a potluck salad, tried immediately to turn the subject to food, saying: "Hi, well, if we're going to make salad ..." But Clayson stayed with the question of Stewart's stock, asking her to comment.
"Well, as you understand, I'm involved in an investigation that has very serious implications," Stewart said. "I'm not at liberty at this time to make any comments whatsovever."
Asked if actions by her stockbroker might complicate her situation, Stewart said, "I think this will all be resolved in the very near future and I will be exonerated of any ridiculousness."
Stewart said she would go ahead with her business, and that "I want to focus on my salad, because that's why we're here."
Asked once again what effect the stock sale has had, Stewart replied: "When I was a model -- and I was all during high school and college -- you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged -- the more covers the better. Well, I am the CEO of a New York Stock Exchange-listed company and I don't want to be on any covers of any newspapers for a long, long time. That's the story. Thank you very much."
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