The woman claiming to be the real-life ‘Martha’ from the hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer has broken her silence claiming she is not a stalker and she didn’t know Gadd was “a complete psychopath who was going to attack” her.
Baby Reindeer, written by and starring Richard Gadd, is based on Gadd’s real-life experience of being stalked and sexually assaulted in his twenties.
The series captured the interest of viewers worldwide, quickly becoming one of the most successful series on the streaming platform.
In her first-ever television interview, the woman claiming to be the real-life Martha, Fiona Harvey, spoke to the veteran broadcaster Piers Morgan, denying stalking or assaulting Gadd and claiming he was “psychotic”.
Ms Harvey first denied ever being given free drinks at the Hawley Arms pub where Gadd worked, however, accepted that she did have a baby reindeer toy and she once likened Gadd to as a joke.
Morgan put to Ms Harvey the simple claim of Gadd that he was sent 41,000 emails, 350 voice messages, 744 tweets, 48 Facebook messages and 106 letters, something Gadd says he has a record of.
“That’s simply not true,” Ms Harvey said.
“I don’t think I sent him anything.”
However over the next near-hour sit-down interview, Ms Harvey’s claims of not having “sent him anything” continued to unravel with the admission of sending him some emails, accepting that she had tweeted him on occasion but stayed steadfast in not having sent him voice messages.
Morgan read one of the tweets from Ms Harvey’s X profile which said “My curtains need hung badly.”
“We were trying to encourage him with this first show or something like that, a long time ago,” Ms Harvey replied dismissing the post.
Morgan continued reading from historic tweets, including one that said: “Please go and see Richard Gadd’s show. It’s well-written and neurotic. The filmed bum shots are the best. Fantastic ass.”
“It was a joke,” Ms Harvey fired back.
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