Real ‘Martha’ from ‘Baby Reindeer’ reveals herself: “This is all fiction, Richard Gadd has serious psychological problems”

The series Baby reindeer appeared quite unnoticed on Netflix at the beginning of April, but became immensely popular in no time. The series is about 33-year-old Scottish comedian Richard Gadd and Martha, twenty years his senior, who allegedly stalked him from 2015 to 2017. According to Gadd, the hallucinatory series is what really happened to him at the time.

For example, the woman allegedly disrupted his performances by telling the audience that she was his girlfriend and sent him up to a hundred messages a day. In two years, Gadd says he received 41,071 emails, 744 tweets, 46 Facebook messages, 106 letters and 350 hours of voicemails from his stalker.

Thanks to the research of the thousands of fans of the series, it quickly became clear who the real Martha is. The woman says she went to the well-known journalist Piers Morgan to tell her story.

Fiona Harvey, as the 58-year-old is really called, gave in in the interview Piers Morgan uncensored her own version of the facts. “I had no choice but to do this interview after receiving death threats,” Harvey said. “I haven’t watched the series. I am not curious, because it has already taken over my life sufficiently.”

According to her, Gadd has “extreme psychological problems.” She claims that nothing about the series is correct. “It’s a work of fiction,” she says. “Only two things are true: his name is Richard Gadd and he worked as a bartender. We only met two or three times.” According to her, the meeting in the series, when Martha walks into a London pub and Gadd offers her a tea as a bartender, is already wrong. “No one gets anything for free there, he didn’t offer me anything. I was hungry and went there to eat something, with a glass of lemonade. I was talking to someone at the time and he interrupted our conversation because he heard I was Scottish. From then on it seemed like he was obsessed with me.”

Reindeer

She doesn’t drink alcohol, Harvey says, and she didn’t get free drinks from Gadd. “I did have a toy reindeer when I was young (hence the name of the series, ed.), that’s true. I then jokingly said that he looked like that.” She denies, among other things, that he came to her house, which you see in the series. She denies all those messages and voicemails. “I don’t think I sent him anything. Maybe there were some emails with jokes, but that was a maximum of 10 and certainly not 41,000.” She also wrote him one letter, she says.

Harvey says he doesn’t know who sent him all those messages, which Netflix says it has as evidence for its story. She says she will take legal action and insists that if it comes to trial and everything is investigated, it will turn out that she is telling the truth. She also denies ever having been prosecuted or convicted. “The scene where you see that is completely wrong.”