What Martha Stewart's Granddaughter Said To Get Her To Speak Up About ICE

Martha Stewart’s granddaughter is holding the famous cooking personality accountable when it comes to speaking out against ICE.

The 84-year-old largely stays out of politics, but responded to an important call to action from her 14-year-old granddaughter, Jude Stewart.

“I’m not sure it’s excusable to not be speaking up right now,” Jude, Alexis Stewart’s daughter, wrote to her famous grandmother. The text seemed to challenge Martha’s silence on ICE’s violent crackdown in the Twin Cities, which resulted in the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents on Saturday.

Above the text, Martha wrote a statement for her 2.9 million followers.

“My granddaughter wrote this to me yesterday. She is sensitive to what is going on in our country, as we all should be,” the TV host wrote. “I am disheartened and sad each and every day that we cannot demonstrate our sympathy for the beleaguered, that we are told immigrants, which most of us are or descended from, are unwelcome, that we cannot show our frustration in peaceful demonstration, and that we can be attacked and even killed by Federal troops.”

“Things must and have to change quickly and peacefully,” she added.

Martha captioned the post, “Grandaughter Jude wrote me a note yesterday … I took it to heart and posted the above.”

Though she generally doesn’t discuss politics, Martha did subtly endorse Kamala Harris in the 2024 election against President Donald Trump, saying during a panel at the 2024 Retail Influencer CEO Forum that she planned to vote for Harris because she wants a president who “doesn’t hate democracy,” per The Daily Beast. She previously endorsed Hilary Clinton in 2016.

Martha’s comments against ICE come amid mounting unrest in the Twin Cities over the past month. After the January 7 killing of Renee Nicole Good, followed by Pretti’s death on January 24, Minneapolis residents are on high alert as they continue to protest ICE terror in their city. “This is not normal, and we can’t accept this as normalcy,” a 17-year-old from Minneapolis told SheKnows for a feature on how teens are navigating the crisis.