Baby reindeer: 8 things we learned from the ‘real Martha’ – Fiona Harvey’s – Interview with Piers Morgan

The woman who claims to be the real ‘Martha Scott’ from Netflix’s Baby Reindeer told PEOPLE: “I think you should watch this” after his interview with Piers Morgan. The hit series, starring and created by comedian Richard Gadd, is about a woman he calls Martha who, he claims, stalked him for years in real life when she was 20 years old.

Gadd said she “went to great lengths” to change Martha’s identity on Baby Reindeer for legal reasons and pleaded with viewers to avoid searching for her, adding, “That’s not the point of the show.” However, that didn’t stop internet trolls and sleuths from unmasking Fiona Harvey as the “real-life Martha” shortly after its April 11 release.

On Thursday night, Harvey gave his first TV interview to former Good Morning Britain news presenter Piers Morgan in what he described as a “world exclusive”. Ms Harvey said she hoped the interview would finally “set the record straight” but she told the Daily Record before its publication that she was “not happy” with Piers’ interrogation, after it was recorded in London . For the latest TV and entertainment news, sign up for our newsletter

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Before the broadcast, the outspoken journalist posted a photo of the “real Martha” on social media, which garnered millions of views and thousands of shares. The interview, titled The Real Martha Uncensored, aired on Piers Morgan’s uncensored YouTube channel on Thursday night and saw the 58-year-old Scottish law graduate become defensive and nervous at times.

She strongly refuted the show’s depiction of her relationship with Gadd and said she would take legal action against the comic and Netflix. We tuned in to watch the interview at 8 pm and here they are Eight things we learned. Try WalesOnline Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features.

1. Fiona Harvey claimed to have received death threats.

Telling Piers why she had decided to go public, she said she had been harassed and given death threats by internet detectives. She added: “It wasn’t really a choice. I was forced to be in this situation… Some of the death threats have been really terrible online, people have called me on the phone. It’s been horrendous.”

2. She believed she had nothing to hide and denied sending thousands of messages.

Harvey claimed the Netflix show was “fiction” and a “work of hyperbole.” He denied sending Gadd 41,000 emails, 350 voicemails, 744 tweets, 48 ​​Facebook messages and 106 letters.

“That’s simply not true,” he told Piers. “I don’t think he sent her anything. There may have been a couple of emails exchanged, that was all, just prank emails.”

When Piers suggested Netflix used real communications in its show, he said: “This is completely incorrect.” He admitted to sending tweets several years ago, which he described as nothing more than “jokes.”

3. She claimed that she had never received an apology from Mr. Gadd.

“I mean, for someone who says they feel sorry for me, I haven’t apologized,” he said. “And I have this Martha character who seems to have trashed a bar, been sexually assaulted on a canal, been to prison,” she added, claiming there had been “a series of other accusations.” “That’s not true,” she said.

4. You want to take legal action

When Piers pointed out that it would be very easy to prove the source of communications via the IP address, he added: “I get it.”

She claimed she was still “prepared” to take legal action because “I didn’t write him the emails.” She said she would like to see evidence from Netflix that the “real Martha” sent Gadd thousands of messages, which would be revealed in court if she filed a lawsuit.

5. Mrs. Harvey said she regretted going to the pub featured in the series.

Ms Harvey said she regretted ever going to the Hawley Arms where Richard Gadd worked. The show describes it as the place where the couple first met.

She said of her impression of Mr. Gadd: “I got the impression that he was just out for himself… he wanted to control that bar. Very, very inarticulate, very full of himself… I should never have gone.” in that bar.”

6. She denied ever having had a prison sentence or been charged with a criminal offense.

Mrs. Harvey is shown a clip from Baby Reindeer in which Martha is seen crying in the dock as she is sentenced to nine months in prison.

Piers asked her if she had ever been in prison or been charged with a crime, to which she replied “no.” She said: “No. That’s completely false… I’m not a stalker and I’ve never been to jail.”

7. Mrs. Harvey said she was in a relationship.

Harvey said she had dated several men “over the years” and was currently in a relationship. Piers asked her what her previous boyfriends would think about the current situation.

She responded: “I think they’re going to think the same thing I think about Richard Gadd… and I’m not worried about the current one because he’s a lawyer.” Harvey said she had been in a relationship with her partner for the past five years.

8. He said he wanted people to see his interview.

Concluding her interview, Ms. Harvey shared a message for those who still doubted her. Looking directly into the camera, she said, “I think you should look at this. I think you should look at the number of articles that Richard Gadd and actress Jessica have done and how he and Netflix have promoted this.

“I think you should look at it by saying that I’m kind of a mental case and I think you should judge for yourselves. I can’t change my mind on this. I can just refute what’s been said, but you need to make Decided, but I do.