First trailer shows Baby Reindeer's 'real life Martha' brutally questioned in first on-screen interview
An explosive trailer shows Baby Reindeer's 'real life Martha' being questioned in her first talk show interview with Piers Morgan.
Ever since the Netflix show aired a few weeks ago, viewers have been hooked to the true story of comedian Richard Gadd, who found himself in a terrifying situation when he was relentlessly harassed by a stalker.
The show focuses on the writer and performer's warped relationship with a middle-aged woman named Martha (played by Jessica Gunning), who becomes his stalker after they meet at the pub in which he works.
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After the show aired, some viewers tried to track down the real-life characters from the show - including Martha.
After a *lot* of internet sleuthing, viewers came across the Facebook page of a woman named Fiona Harvey, who they believe is the 'real life Martha'.
After much speculation over Fiona - whose Facebook bio says she's 'Scottish' and a 'lawyer' - it has now been announced that Fiona will sit down with Morgan to discuss the speculations.
It's important to note that it's still unclear whether the character of Martha is based on Fiona.
Morgan made the announcement on X yesterday (8 May), explaining that the interview will be broadcast at 8pm on Thursday, 9 May, over on the Piers Morgan Uncensored YouTube channel.
Responding to a follower on X, Morgan described the interview as 'compelling'.
He later posted a picture of himself and Fiona, saying she wanted to 'set the record straight' and 'have her say'.
Fiona has since told the Daily Record, however, that Morgan refused to accept her denying the accusations.
She said: "There was a heavy emphasis from Piers Morgan on Gadd and the emails I am supposed to have sent.
"I have my own thoughts on it that I’d like to keep to myself but I wouldn’t say I was happy. It was very rapid to try to trip me up. He did it fast paced to catch me off guard.
"Piers kept saying to me ‘are you sure you haven’t sent this guy 41,000 emails and phone calls?’. A lot of the interview, for a good 10 minutes, he kept coming back to this.
"I said, ‘Look, Even if I had sent some emails, it doesn’t mean I’m guilty of the rest of the stuff. As I said, in order to bill something as a true story, it’s got to be pretty much 100% true.
"It seemed to me that I was set up. I feel a bit used."
Baby Reindeer fact vs fiction
While Richard Gadd claims Baby Reindeer is based on a true story, many viewers have been left questioning which parts were fabricated for the Netflix show.
We've separated the facts from the fiction.
How Donny and Martha met
In Baby Reindeer, Gadd's character Donny offers Martha a free drink after feeling sorry for her when she said she couldn't afford one.
Gadd claims this is true and his seemingly harmless act of kindness quickly snowballed into a shocking turn of events.
The amount of emails
Gadd says his stalker sent him 41,071 emails, 350 hours of voicemail, 744 tweets, 46 Facebook messages and 106 pages of letters over four-and-a-half years.
In real life, she also reportedly sent him a variety of strange gifts, including a reindeer toy, sleeping pills, a woolly hat and boxers.
Sent from my iPhone
Netflix said that every email Donny receives in the show is real, all of which end with 'sent from my iPhone' - despite the fact she didn't have an iPhone and wasn't emailing from one.
When the police intervened
In the series, Donny wasn't taken seriously when he initially reported Martha to the police.
According to Gadd, it was six years before they finally intervened.
Which details were fiction?
Gadd has spoken about how some details of the show have been changed to protect identities of those involved.
He explained that 'Martha' had been disguised to such an extent that he doesn't think she'd 'recognise herself'.
It's also unclear whether the real-life Martha went to prison. Fiona Harvey says she's never been to jail.
In Baby Reindeer, Martha was sentenced to nine months in prison and given a five-year restraining order.
Though Gadd told The Times the stalking issue has been 'resolved', adding that he 'mixed feelings about it' because he 'didn't want to throw someone who was that level of mentally unwell in prison'.
Topics: Netflix, TV And Film, Baby Reindeer, Piers Morgan, Celebrity
Rhiannon Ingle