THE ‘real Baby Reindeer stalker’ says she won’t watch the Netflix show because it’ll make her “sick”.
Fiona Harvey has told Piers Morgan Uncensored the show is “horrifying and misogynistic”.
The 58-year-old claims to be the inspiration for the character Martha, who is seen bombarding protagonist Donnie Dunn with thousands of emails and showing up at the pub where he works every day.
Harvey was ‘outed’ within hours of the show premiering on Netflix last month by internet sleuths.
She blasted the series, which purports to be a true story, as untrue.
Speaking on Morgan’s new YouTube channel, she continued: “I haven’t watched any of it. I think I’d be sick. It’s taken over enough of my life.”
It comes as…
- Fiona Harvey reveals all on Piers Morgan Uncensored
- She said she IS Baby Reindeer’s Martha
- But Fiona WON’T be watching the Netflix hit
- Richard Gadd is the ‘real psycho’, Fiona claims
- Piers Morgan says Fiona ‘lied to me quite a lot’
“I find it quite obscene. I’ve had a horrifying, misogynistic experience.
“Some of the death threats have been really terrible online.
“People phoning me up. You know, it’s been absolutely horrendous. I wouldn’t give credence to something like that.
“And it’s not really my kind of drama.”
Harvey claims to be setting the record straight after being unmasked by fans of the hit Netflix show.
At the start of each episode it states ‘This is a True Story’.
A Netflix executive had claimed producers took every precaution to protect any real life inspirations for characters on the series.
Speaking in parliament, policy chief Benjamin King said that Netflix and Clerkenwell Films – who made the show – took “every reasonable precaution in disguising the real-life identities of the people involved in that story”.
Mr King said Netflix needed to balance protecting identities with upholding the “veracity and authenticity” of the show.
What Fiona claims is true in Baby Reindeer saga
Fiona Harvey – who claims to be the inspiration for the Baby Reindeer character Martha – says there is only one thing true in the Netflix show.
The seven-part series, which premiered last month, was written by comedian Richard Gadd and purports to be based on his own personal experiences of being stalked and sexually assaulted.
Gadd, 34, plays a fictionalised version of himself – Donnie Dunn – but Harvey, who was ‘outed’ by internet sleuths within hours of the show being uploaded, is adamant the story is “completely untrue”.
The 58-year-old law graduate said: “It’s a work of hyperbole, as I’ve always said. And there are two true facts in that. His name is Richard Gadd, and he works as a jobbing barman on benefits, in the Hawley Arms. And we met, two or three times…”
On whether she said he looked like a ‘baby reindeer’ toy she had as a child, she added: “I had a toy reindeer and he’d shaved his head, that bit is true, and there were reindeer in the shops because it was Christmas time or something. It was a joke.
“So I have inadvertently penned the name of the show.”
“We didn’t want to anonymise that or make it generic to the point where it was no longer his story because that would undermine the intent behind the show,” the senior public policy director said.
“Ultimately, it’s obviously very difficult to control what viewers do, particularly in a world where everything is amplified by social media.
“I personally wouldn’t be comfortable with a world in which we decided it was better that Richard was silenced and not allowed to tell the story.”
