Piers Morgan has unveiled a bombshell interview with the woman claiming to be the “real Martha” from Netflix’s hit series Baby Reindeer, due to air on YouTube tomorrow night at 8pm.
This will be the woman’s first TV appearance, and she insists that she is indeed the inspiration behind the character Martha from the dramatisation.
Netflix’s riveting seven-part series Baby Reindeer recounts comedian Richard Gadd’s personal story of being incessantly pursued by a woman, who is called Martha in the show. In the series, she emerges as a fearsome and obsessive figure who faces a nine-month sentence in jail after relentlessly plaguing the comic’s life following an encounter in a Camden pub.
After the series launch on Netflix, a woman claiming to be the inspiration for the character revealed she was contemplating taking legal recourse to amend the damage done by the show. She has claimed she feels wrongfully depicted as a menacing stalker.
The woman, maintaining she is a competent attorney despite having her life upended by the series, said she is able to defend herself in court, reports the Mirror.
According to the Daily Record, she claimed: “I’ve not been to prison. None of this happened. It’s a load of rubbish.”
She claimed she is now “living in fear” due to online detectives harassing her. She also claimed: “Gadd and Netflix have portrayed this as a true story and now some little man in North Carolina giving me death threats believes it’s a true story. But I think you’d need to be really stupid to believe it is true.”
She lamented the loss of her normal life, stating: “Any semblance of a normal life I had is gone. It’s open season on me and this is my chance to speak out.”
Defiantly, she declared: “Would it have been better if I spoke to nobody? No, I don’t think so.”
The woman announced her intention to make a “major TV appearance soon”, claiming: “Everyone may as well know who I am and at least they’ll hear the truth.”
She argued against the portrayal of her as a criminal, claiming: “I think we can easily prove I’m not a career criminal by saying I’ve not been to prison. I have no criminal convictions of any description.”
Baby Reindeer depicts how a stalker obsesses over Gadd’s dramatised character Donny Dunn.
Challenging the narrative, the woman stated: “Gadd needs to prove I went to jail which just didn’t happen. I’ve never been sent to jail. That is blatantly obvious.”
She detailed the process that would follow actual criminal activity, stating: “Police at your door would be the first thing, then you’d be charged, then you would have a trial. Then you’d be fined or something or go to prison.”
She claimed: “This is all made up and hyperbole. There are no restraining orders, injunctions or interdicts anywhere. There’s just no way. I’ve not had the police at my door about any of these things.
“It’s a load of rubbish. I don’t have any money but I’m a perfectly capable lawyer so I will represent myself.”
Baby Reindeer, produced by Clerkenwell Films, a company owned by BBC Studios, has gained international acclaim. Even horror novelist Stephen King is a fan and described Martha as being “equal” to Annie Wilkes from his 1987 hit Misery.
