Alleged real-life Martha from 'Baby Reindeer' denies stalking Richard Gadd, slams show as 'complete nonsense'
The woman who claims to have inspired Martha Scott of the hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer denied sending over 41,000 emails and stalking Richard Gadd as she threatened to sue him and the streaming giant for their portrayal of her.
In a guest appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, lawyer Fiona Harvey claimed she didn’t send over 41,000 emails and leave 350 hours worth of voicemails to Gadd, the series creator who said its story was based on his real-life experience.
In the series, Gadd portrays Donny Dunn, a struggling comedian and bartender who receives 41,000 emails, 744 tweets, 100 pages of letters, and 350 hours of voicemails from Martha, a lawyer, for over four years.
"That's simply not true,” Harvey said. “If somebody was sending somebody 41,000 emails or something, they'd be doing how many a day? Lots.”
Harvey, however, acknowledged that “there may have been a couple of emails exchanged.”
“But that was it. Just jokey banter emails,” she said, adding that she didn’t text Gadd or message him on Facebook. She went on to claim there were only “about 18 tweets” she made about him.
She also denied stalking Gadd and his parents, as well as physically assaulting his ex.
Harvey accused Gadd of asking her to sleep with him, and said she gave him “the brush off.”
She also called him “psychotic” and his behavior “outrageous.”
Harvey slammed Baby Reindeer as “complete nonsense,” and expressed her intentions to file a lawsuit against Gadd and Netflix.
She left a message to Gadd as the interview was coming to a close: "Leave me alone, please. Get a life, get a proper job, I am horrified at what you've done."
Marketed as a true story, Baby Reindeer premiered on April 21 with seven episodes and has since been on Netflix’s Top 10 list in several countries.
In April, Gadd told GQ Magazine that the show’s focus was “capturing the emotional truth, not creating a factual profile.”
“We’ve gone to such lengths to disguise her that I doubt she would recognize herself in the show,” he said.
In one Instagram Story, he urged the public to stop trying to know the identity of the real-life Martha. “Please don't speculate on who any of the real life people could be. That's not the point of our show," he wrote in an expired post.