A woman who has been accused of being the 'real-life Martha' from Netflix's hit series Baby Reindeer is set to give her first interview since its release.
Writer and actor Richard Gadd blew people away with the retelling of his real experiences with a stalker in Baby Reindeer, detailing how she would turn up at his place of work and send him hundreds of emails every day.
Gadd's character was named Donny in the Netflix series and his stalker Martha was played by Jessica Gunning, but now a woman has come forward after she was accused of being the inspiration for the stalker.
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Fiona Harvey, from Aberdeenshire in Scotland, was exposed by internet sleuths as 'the real Martha' and has now sat down with Piers Morgan to tell her side of the story.
Harvey, 58, is set to appear on the controversial presenter's chat show Piers Uncensored tomorrow (9 May), marking her first 'big TV interview' since Baby Reindeer was released.
Morgan announced the news on X with a picture of himself and Harvey, writing: "*WORLD EXCLUSIVE* The real-life Martha from Baby Reindeer breaks cover and gives me her first TV interview about the smash hit Netflix show.
"Fiona Harvey wants to have her say & ‘set the record straight.’ Is she a psycho stalker? Find out tomorrow on @PiersUncensored."
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X users have expressed their excitement for the interview, but Harvey has since spoken to the Daily Record to reveal she was 'not happy' with Morgan's interview.
She described the conversation as a 'sparring match' and claimed she was forced to refute Morgan's claims that she 'loved' Gadd.
Harvey alleged Morgan refused to accept her denial that she'd 'stalked' Gadd, telling the publication: “There was a heavy emphasis from Piers Morgan on Gadd and the emails I am supposed to have sent.
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“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."
Harvey continued: “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.
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“It seemed to me that I was set up. I feel a bit used.”
Harvey also revealed that Morgan had asked her if she loved Gadd, to which she responded: "You’ve got to be joking."
The interview is set to air at 3pm EST.
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.
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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: Baby Reindeer, Netflix, Piers Morgan
Emily Brown