Baby Reindeer’s Real-Life Martha To “Set Record Straight” In Piers Morgan Interview As She Weighs Netflix Lawsuit

Will be interesting to see what comes of this.

She's put a fairly strong marker out there that she has never been imprisoned. If that true - and surely people more interested in this than myself would definitely be unearthing this to counter her - then there's going to be some bigger questions raised as to the validity of other aspects of this show.

To be fair, I think they described it as a fictionalised version of a "true story" but if you exaggerate so much that it distorts the perception of a real life person and leads them to getting death threats, etc then should you be held accountable?

The guy's behaviour in the show was so off and bizarre at times though, that it did have me questioning how much of it was a truthful account. Mind you, that's not to say this woman is firing on all cylinders...

‘Baby Reindeer’s Real-Life Martha Claims She Will Sue Netflix Over “Obscene Work Of Fiction”
https://deadline.com/2024/05/baby-reindeer-martha-fiona-harvey-netflix-piers-morgan-interview-1235909680/

Baby Reindeer‘s real-life Martha has slammed the Netflix series as an “obscene” and “defamatory” work of fiction, claiming that she is instructing lawyers to sue the streamer.

In an interview with Piers Morgan (full video below), Scottish lawyer Fiona Harvey said she had been “forced” into telling her side of the story after Baby Reindeer became an enormous global hit.

Baby Reindeer was billed as a “true story” and provides a searingly raw account of comedian Richard Gadd’s experience with an alleged stalker, known as Martha.

But Harvey told Morgan that it was a “work of hyperbole” and “work of fiction,” and claimed that she was prepared to test her argument in a court of law.

In the forensic interview, Harvey said she had never been charged or received a jail sentence for stalking (as is depicted in the final episode), did not send Gadd 41,000 emails or contact his parents, and never heckled Gadd at stand-up gigs.

She denied leaving Gadd voicemails and alleged that she may have been recorded illicitly during her encounters with the writer in the pub in which he worked. She also denied assaulting Gadd’s former girlfriend and said she did not sexually assault Gadd on a canal path.

Harvey claimed she had not watched Baby Reindeer, but argued that Gadd was “completely off his head” and questioned his mental wellbeing.

“He is lying and they [Netflix] are lying,” Harvey told Morgan. “They have billed it as a true story, so has he, and it’s not. It’s blatantly not.” In a message to Gadd, she added: “Leave me alone please.”

Just watch the interview. She is knowledgable in legal basics, Netflix apparently not!

I would never watch most "documentaries", but this miniseries seems to be trash TV soap opera. Netflix is screwed for saying it's reality.

There are some minor problems with Harvey's story. Why does Piers make an issue over "6 emails"? I have Google, Outlook, an ISP one I never use, and an alias to prevent spam. Another 20+ in the past. If I were working that's another.

“Richard Gadd is PSYCHOTIC” Baby Reindeer’s ‘Real’ Martha Fiona Harvey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK-isQXd_Qw

She is absolutely nuts. I do believe she did not plead guilty and spend time in jail, or we would know about it by now, but she changed her story repeatedly during interview.

The whole thing makes me really uncomfortable. I watched the interview, and while it was quite obvious that Harvey’s denials were inconsistent and flimsy, I couldn’t help feeling terribly sad for her. Piers Morgan makes me sick too, the way he pointed out more than once that Gadd and Netflix have failed in their duty of care towards her, but didn’t at all acknowledge that this interview was just compounding her problems one hundred-fold.

I can’t see any of this ending well.

Fascinating series and I believe this Fiona lady is indeed "Martha" and stalked the guy but the revelations coming out now that she was never convicted and things were invented in the series for "dramatic" purposes is worrying. If you're telling a true story based on abuse, mental illness and criminality I think it's important to keep to the facts and only the facts. What else in this series never really happened? It muddies the water and causes doubt, which gives this Fiona ammunition.

My biggest question after watching this is once he started sorting his issues out and had Martha arrested why didn't he tell the Police about the writer who raped him? The show leaves you with the feeling the guy got away with it which is supremely depressing.