“For god’s sake!

“Halloween was also a grim affair: There were no costumes,” she writes.

“There was no anything.

Alexis Stewart smiling

We turned off all the lights and pretended we weren’t home.”

Sadly, the painful holiday memories also didn’t stop at just Halloween.

“Martha was not interested in being kid-friendly,” writes Alexis.

Martha Stewart with daughter Alexis

Alexis says that she felt that her mother expected her to be perfect.

“If I didn’t do something perfectly, I had to do it again,” she writes.

“I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.”

Martha Stewart walking in front of daughter Alexis

Martha managed to act very imperfectly when Alexis' friends were over.

Don’t have his baby,'” she wrote.

Martha and Alexis have appeared together on various television segments over the years and publicly support each other.