Sitting down with Today for a recent interview, Ina Garten recalled the harsh words her abusive father once hurled at her as a young woman. “He said, ‘Nobody will ever love you,’” the cookbook author and TV personality — who just released her memoir,

The lifestyle luminaries, who have been on the publicity circuit, were once close, but in a recent interview, Ms. Stewart doubled down on her contention that Ms. Garten abandoned her during a difficult period.