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       Real-Life 'Baby Reindeer' Stalker to 'Set Record Straight' in TV
       Interview
        
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       New off-screen _Baby Reindeer_ drama is poised to get as dicey as what
       made it into the Netflix hit.
        
       _Baby Reindeer_ concerns the real-life stalking of Richard Gadd, a
       Scottish writer and actor who also stars in the show as Donny. Jessica
       Gunning plays Martha, the stalker.
        
       In the series, the characters' names are pseudonyms. But since _Baby
       Reindeer_ 's quiet April 11 debut, viewers have taken to social media
       to figure out who the characters real-life counterparts are.
        
       Fiona Harvey, a lawyer from Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, recently stepped
       forth to assert that she is the inspiration for the Martha character,
       and she is none too pleased with what she alleges are dramatic
       liberties with her portrayal — to a degree that she aims to "set the
       record straight" in a Thursday-night interview on _Piers Morgan
       Uncensored_ , which appears to be a YouTube show.
        
       "The real-life Martha from Baby Reindeer breaks cover and gives me her
       first TV interview about the smash hit Netflix show," Morgan trumpeted
       on X. "Fiona Harvey wants to have her say & 'set the record straight.'
       Is she a psycho stalker?"
        
       Harvey is also said to be mulling a lawsuit against Netflix.
        
       **Update:** Netflix had not commented on the matter until Wednesday
       afternoon in the UK, when Benjamin King, the streamer's Senior
       Director of Public Policy for UK and Ireland, said before Parliament's
       Culture, Media and Sport Committee (at the 17:31 mark), "We did take
       every reasonable precaution in disguising the real-life identities of
       the people involved in that story… whilst also striking a balance with
       veracity and authenticity of Richard's story, because we didn't want
       to anonymize that and make it generic to the point where it n longer
       was his story."
        
       Piers Morgan's announcement of Harvey's interview came on the heels of
       Gadd, Gunning and others associated with the series appearing at a
       Netflix-hosted FYC event on Tuesday night. (Watch a clip via sister
       site THR.com below.)
        
       > Richard Gadd, creator and star of 'Baby Reindeer,' talks about
       > having empathy for his real-life stalker at a Netflix-hosted FYC
       > screening pic.twitter.com/qiKXUhDV7m
       >
       > — The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 8, 2024
        
       There, Gadd said, "I struggle with what is sort of a toxic empathy
       problem, where I feel a lot for people" including his stalker.
        
       "I remember when I was going through it in real life… when I was
       getting stalked it and it was relentless… and I felt like my life
       wasn't functioning… I still had these unbelievable pangs of feeling
       sorry for her," he said.
        
       "Even when it was at its worst and she got my phone number" — and the
       situation threatened to "move from harassment to an actually dangerous
       situation" — "at the end of the day she's somebody who's just in a lot
       of pain," Gadd added. "And I thought that was a lot more important to
       get across than 'woe is me, someone is stalking me.'"
        
        
        
        
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