Baby Reindeer’s real-life stalker is back in the limelight with new allegations which can become another controversy.
The woman named Fiona Harvey claims to be the inspiration behind the show’s stalker, Martha. Harvey was identified on Facebook by the series users.
She became overnight famous after the semi-autobiographical surprise-hit series was released. Although, since the release of ‘Baby Reindeer’, she is extremely unhappy with how she’s portrayed, describing herself as the ‘victim’.
Now, Fiona has opened up in a wide-ranging interview with Piers Morgan, but the woman who inspired Baby Reindeer took a swipe at The Sun columnist just hours before their chat was due to air.
She wrote online: “Piers is a twerp, but we already know this. “You will see in my interview.” Hoping to set the record straight, Fiona accused the show’s writer Richard Gadd of “making money out of untrue facts”.
As Fiona said on Piers Morgan Uncensored: “We’ve had no apologies from Netflix or him, nothing. I mean, for someone who says he feels sorry for me, I’ve had no apology.”
“My character seems to have smashed up a bar, sexually assaulted him in a canal, been to prison. There are a number of other allegations, and… That’s not true.”
On being ‘outed’ as the ‘real-life Martha’ online within hours of the show dropping Netflix, she told Piers: “On the internet, investigators tracked me down and hounded me and gave me death threats. So it wasn’t a choice. I was forced into this situation.”
“Some of the death threats have been really terrible online. People phoning me up. You know, it’s been absolutely horrendous.
In the four weeks since “’Baby Reindeer’ debuted, it has been viewed more than 56 million times, according to data released by Netflix.
The intense interest in the seven-episode series, which is billed as a true story based on the experience of the comedian Richard Gadd, has also spawned an army of amateur detectives trying to uncover the actual identities of the characters onscreen.
