It wasn’t a “very good thing” when Martha Stewart broke her massive toe at a New York Knicks sport final May.
The life-style guru was sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden when the house workforce’s level guard, Jalen Brunson, dove for a ball out of bounds — and “crashed” proper into 84-year-old Stewart, who was sporting open-toe sandals.
As her massive toe throbbed in ache, she knew instantly the 190-pound athlete had damaged the bone.
Nearly a yr later, she just lately acquired the possibility to confront Brunson on his podcast, Roommates Show, cohosted by his teammate Josh Hart.
The two-time NBA All-Star was deeply apologetic, though admitted he didn’t bear in mind the second, which went down because the Knicks squared off towards the Indiana Pacers within the Eastern Conference Finals.
As Stewart recounted, Brunson not solely landed on her, he even sat on her lap.
“You jumped up really fast. And I remember saying to you, ‘It’s okay.’ You had no idea that you had hurt me. I didn’t say you hurt me, but I said, ‘It’s okay.’ It wasn’t okay at all.”
After the sport — which went into extra time, a lot to her painful chagrin — Stewart headed straight to the Hospital for Special Surgery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to have her toe checked out.
“They’ve named it the ‘Stewart-Brunson fracture,’” she joked. “I have an X-ray, I’m going to leave you a picture of it… it was actually a break, so anyways, it’s better now… It took one year to heal.”
Martha Stewart sitting courtside at the sport in query on May 21, 2025
Credit: Sarah Stier/Getty
Stewart beforehand told the story on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and revealed she really bumped into the NBA star’s dad and mom, Knicks assistant coach Rick Brunson and his spouse Sandra, within the Hamptons. And she couldn’t assist however inform them what their son did. “They were laughing,” she advised Fallon. “They thought it was so funny.”
Brunson now provides somewhat extra to the story: His dad FaceTimed him to just about apologize to Stewart. He later additionally despatched her a basketball, which she gave to her grandson.
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In the tip, there’s no unhealthy blood — and Stewart discovered a precious lesson.
“It’s my fault for wearing open-toe shoes to a basketball game,” she reasoned. “I look back at it as just something silly, stupid, and funny. It was stupid of me.”
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