Martha Stewart has finally come face to face with the man who broke her toe — New York Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson.
The 84-year-old lifestyle guru appeared on the March 26 episode of Brunson’s Roommates Show podcast, which he cohosts with teammate Josh Hart.
The episode gave Stewart her first chance to tell Brunson, 29, directly about the injury he caused during a game last year at Madison Square Garden. And it was an injury that Brunson didn’t even remember causing.
How Did Martha Stewart Break Her Toe?
Stewart broke her big toe last May while sitting courtside at a Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers Eastern Conference Finals matchup.
She was wearing open-toe sandals when Brunson — 6-foot-2 and 190 pounds — stepped on her toe while running up the court. He later dove for a ball out of bounds and crashed into her before briefly sitting on her lap.
Stewart knew immediately her toe was broken. Making matters worse, the game went into overtime, meaning she was unable to leave right away — prolonging the pain of an already agonizing injury.
After the game finally ended, Stewart went directly to the Hospital for Special Surgery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side for treatment.
Martha Stewart Finally Confronts Jalen Brunson
During the podcast episode, the trio watched a clip from Stewart’s 2025 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, where she had first publicly revealed the story of her broken toe.
With Brunson sitting across from her, Stewart recounted the moment it happened.
“You jumped up really fast. And I remember saying to you, ‘It’s okay,’” she recalled. “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.”
Stewart revealed that the injury took a full year to heal, but she is doing better now. True to her signature humor, she even coined a name for the injury.
“They’ve named it the ‘Stewart-Brunson fracture,’” she joked on the podcast. “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.”
Brunson was apologetic but admitted he didn’t remember the incident. Stewart, for her part, was gracious about the whole ordeal and even placed some of the blame on herself.
“It’s my fault for wearing open-toe shoes to a basketball game,” Stewart reasoned. “I look back at it as just something silly, stupid, and funny. It was stupid of me.”
Jalen Brunson Sent Martha Stewart a Signed Basketball
The story didn’t stay between Stewart and Brunson. After the game last May, Stewart ran into Brunson’s parents — Knicks assistant coach Rick Brunson and his wife Sandra — in the Hamptons and told them what happened.
They found it funny enough that Jalen’s father FaceTimed his son so he could virtually apologize to Stewart. As a goodwill gesture, Jalen sent Stewart a signed basketball, which she gave to her grandson.
Stewart first told the story publicly during her December appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
At the time of that appearance, she was still wearing open-toe shoes because they were the only ones she could comfortably wear while her toe healed.
The podcast appearance gave both sides a chance to laugh about an incident that, while painful for Stewart, has become one of the more entertaining courtside stories in recent memory.
Stewart’s willingness to joke about the injury — and her self-deprecating take on her footwear choices — made for a memorable exchange with the Knicks guard who had no idea he had caused so much damage.
A year later, Stewart’s toe has finally healed, and any lingering tension seems to have healed along with it.
