The Real Life Stalker From Baby Reindeer is Sitting Down with Piers Morgan for a One-on-One Interview
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UNILAD - A woman who has been accused of being the 'real-life Martha' from Netflix's hit series Baby Reindeer is set to give her first interview since its release.
Writer and actor Richard Gadd blew people away with the retelling of his real experiences with a stalker in Baby Reindeer, detailing how she would turn up at his place of work and send him hundreds of emails every day.
Gadd's character was named Donny in the Netflix series and his stalker Martha was played by Jessica Gunning, but now a woman has come forward after she was accused of being the inspiration for the stalker.
Fiona Harvey, from Aberdeenshire in Scotland, was exposed by internet sleuths as 'the real Martha' and has now sat down with Piers Morgan to tell her side of the story.
Harvey, 58, is set to appear on the controversial presenter's chat show Piers Uncensored tomorrow (9 May), marking her first 'big TV interview' since Baby Reindeer was released.
I had the displeasure of watching the entirely of Baby Reindeer in one sitting over the weekend. Not that it was a bad show. I thought it was extremely well done, and I was deeply invested. But I was also deeply unsettled from start to finish. If you're unfamiliar, Netflix's Baby Reindeer is a show about struggling London prop comic/bartender Richard Gadd. One day he serves a random woman a free cup of tea, and that woman ends up stalking his entire life. The crazy shit that unfolds throughout the show, the way this stalker fucks up the already mentally unstable comedian's brain, and everything that happened over the course of Richard's Gadd's life in general is wildly disturbing. Not only was the show written by Richard Gadd himself, but he also played himself as the main character. So this whole thing was his baby. It was Richard telling the story of his fucked up life as it happened.
His stalker in the show is an unsightly woman named Martha. Martha is off-putting in pretty much every way imaginable. You really grow to hate everything about her when watching the show (although there is a part of you that feels bad, as she's clearly beyond unwell).
Following the release of the show, the real life Martha decided to speak up. Martha was pissed about the way she was portrayed and she's now threatening to sue Netflix. She claims that the show is full of lies, that there were scenes portraying moments that never happened in real life, and claims that Richard Gadd is now the one stalking her by making a show about her.
But if you watched the show, then read what real-life Martha says about the show, you can't help but think, "Yep, that's sounds exactly like something this crazy bitch would say." The show portrays her as so incredibly delusional that it's almost impossible to give any credence to her claims. But to be fair to her crazy ass, Gadd could have completely made up half of what happened. We'd have no way of knowing.
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However, it appears Martha has now been given an opportunity to tell her side of the story as Pier Morgan announced that he will be sitting down with her for a one-on-one interview.
That's the breakdown of what's going on. Now might I say, this is going to be a shit show. Richard Gadd is a nutcase himself. According to his Netflix show, Martha is much more of one. Martha has also been arrested for stalking people (violently) multiple other times, so her track record automatically makes everyone more inclined to believe Richard's version of things. But still, this whole thing is just going to be one massive he said, she said between two mentally unstable people with insurmountable amounts of trauma in their lives that they're not even close to overcoming. I'm not sure either of them truly remember what happened. Both their versions of events could be so far removed from the truth. Nobody knows.
Martha is probably going to trot out their on Piers Morgan Uncensored and categorically deny every little detail Gadd included about her in Baby Reindeer. Then part of the internet will say "You dumb ugly bitch, I watched the show myself, you're nothing but a big fat liar."
Then another part of the internet will say, "Well, we don't really know. Richard Gadd could have made a bunch of stuff up to make a better show. Maybe he really did lead her on, maybe she's the victim, believe all women, Richard Gadd for prison, etc."
Kind of a crazy move by Gadd to put this show out there while his stalker still walks the streets. If she's as insane as he says she is, he had to have known this was coming. Martha isn't just going to say silent. She's going to be as loud as humanly possible and the whole thing is going to turn into some crazy internet drama. Richard can't handle that. The guy can barely leave the house without something catastrophic and mentally scarring happening to him. This whole thing has disaster written all over it. I'm pumped to watch it play out.
If I were Netflix, I'm giving Martha $1 million dollars to write a show detailing the entire saga from her point of view. I want to know what went down according to her brain. Her show likely wouldn't make a lick of sense, but who cares. That would do numbers. Netflix gave Richard Gadd the platform to tell his side of things. The least they could do is offer the same to Martha.