Huge Scots star reveals he had ‘Baby Reindeer stalker’ who ‘lived under tree at house’

FRANKIE Boyle has claimed he was stalked in a similar way to Baby Reindeer star Richard Gadd.

The comic said he has been unable to watch the hit Netflixshow because he fears it would trigger memories of how he was targeted.

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Frankie Boyle revealed he had his own ‘Baby Reindeer stalker’[/caption]

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Jessica Gunning plays obsessive stalker Martha in the Netflix smash[/caption]

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Fiona Harvey is said to be the real-life inspiration for the drama’s stalker Martha[/caption]

In 2018 a woman was ordered by a court to stay away from Boyle for three years after being accused of stalking him over an eight-month period.

She was said to have turned up to his gigs and arrived at a hotel in Edinburgh when he was staying there.

Court papers stated that she also loitered at the places that she knew Boyle would be present, and stared at him.

Glasgow-born Boyle, 51, spoke publicly about the case for the first time on his podcast Here Comes The Guillotine.

He said: “I had a stalker in quite a similar situation to that guy (in Baby Reindeer) and I just can’t watch the show.

“I remember doing a gig and just looking down and in the front row she was there in a really crumpled evening gown and she was furious.

“She was very much focused on living under a tree outside my house for quite some length of time.

“She went into this hotel I was staying at during the Edinburgh Festival.

“She kept turning up and I was like ‘How is she finding me when I’m in this hotel?’.

“The police said to me ‘We found that she had created a kind of nest in the disabled toilet of that hotel’. She had got like a duvet in and she had slept in there.”

The woman accused of stalking Boyle was found to be not criminally responsible for her actions because of her mental state and acquitted of the charges against her.

When she appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court she was instead ordered to be detained under the Mental Health Act for six months.

She was also handed a three-year non-harassment order barring her from contacting Boyle.

Baby Reindeer depicts the story of a stalker who harassed Scottish comedian Gadd over several years.

The seven-part series is inspired by Gadd’s 2019 Edinburgh Fringe show of the same name.

Fiona Harvey, said to be the real-life inspiration for the drama’s stalker Martha, has threatened to sue Netflix over the series.