Martha Stewart apologizes again, saying Halloween costume wasn't Craig Melvin's fault

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Set us as preferred Martha Stewart is setting the record straight about her controversial Halloween costume: It wasn’t Craig Melvin’s fault.The lifestyle magnate stopped by the “Today” show Friday to once again apologize for deciding to dress up as a person experiencing homelessness for Halloween and explain why she threw Melvin under the bus amid the backlash.

“I don’t blame you at all,” Stewart said during her sitdown with the NBC host.“It was a joke when I said I blamed you.

It was stupid.” Stewart posted — then quickly deleted — a photo of herself dressed up in torn and disheveled clothing and holding a makeshift sign that read “I AM HUNGRY HELP ME!!” on Oct.31.

She was photographed on a pristine porch along with her immaculately groomed chow chow and French bulldog.The backlash was swift.

Entertainment & Arts Martha Stewart dressed as a person struggling with poverty for Halloween.She addressed the backlash on Sunday.“It was just stupid and I apologize,” the TV personality said Friday, noting that her grandson had warned her even before she shared the photograph on Instagram that it was “tone deaf.” “I was not making fun of anybody or making light of the great problems that face our country.” According to the ex-convict lifestyle mogul, she had thrown together the outfit last minute because she had been too busy to plan a proper costume to attend a Halloween party.

Stewart had previously apologized for her gaffe.After telling Page Six in a statement that her costume was meant “to bring more awareness” to the issue of homelessness and that she was “distressed” it “offended people,” she posted a since-deleted apology to her Instagram Sunday acknowledging her first statement “didn’t go far enough.” “Wearing a costume like I did was insensitive and not funny...