Excerpts from tonight’s CNN “Larry King Live” interview with Alexis Stewart, daughter of Martha:

Alexis on . . .

Martha’s biggest fault:
She's too, ironically, forgiving and kind and – I know people don't know that, but she was incredibly generous and she gives too much, I think. 

What she learned from Martha:
Strength, persistence, open mindedness.

On what it’s like to grow up with a perfectionist mom:
She was my mom, and as everyone knows, I'm a better cook and more of a perfectionist than my mother.  

On hearing the verdict:
I actually fainted. Nobody really knows that, but it was so horrifying and incomprehensible that I fainted. And even the people around me didn't know.

On how Sam Waksal, her ex-boyfriend and founder of ImClone, feels:
I think he would feel guilty, he does feel guilty. But I don't think what he did had anything to do with my mother. 
And conversely, I think, the other day I was thinking he probably suffered more because he knew my mother. Not more than her, but as a separate issue.

The media:
I avoid the newsstand. I have seen the covers of news magazines, and I try to ignore the headlines, and I think, wow, she looks great. And then I just go on my way. I don't listen to the radio anymore.
 
Her relationship with her dad, Stewart’s ex-husband:
No, no, I'm not close. But he, actually on Friday, wrote a really nice note to my mother and me about how sorry he was and if there was anything he can do to help.