The woman claiming to be the real life Martha from Baby Reindeer has spoken out during an interview with Piers Morgan.
The individual, who The Mirror has chosen not to name or photograph, insists that she is the inspiration behind stalker Martha in the Netflix show Baby Reindeer. The programme tells the story of writer and comedian Richard Gadd’s experience of being stalked by a woman named
Martha in the show. In Gadd’s seven part series, Martha is a terrifying stalker who winds up with a nine-month jail sentence for a campaign of harassment against the comic after meeting him in a Camden pub.
During the interview with Piers Morgan, the woman claimed several things were untrue about the Netflix show – including that he never offered her a free cup of tea, and she never messaged him as much as she said she did.
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The Netflix show is marketed as a ‘true story’. However, in the interview, she told Piers: “It’s completely untrue. Very, very defamatory to me, very career-damaging. And I wanted to rebut that completely on this show. I’m not a stalker. I’ve not been to jail, I’ve not got injunctions. And this is just complete nonsense.” Here are four specific details about the show she said were not correct:
Offer of tea
The “real life” Martha disputed that she had been offered a free cup of tea when he was working in the pub. Asked directly about that, she said it was untrue. She explained: “No, that’s not correct. He didn’t offer me a cup of tea… I was in for a meal with, a drink of lemonade, and I was very, very hungry. I’m diabetic, so, very hungry. So that’s true.”
Correspondence
In the show, Martha sent 41,000 emails, 350 hours of voice messages, 744 tweets, 48 Facebook messages, and 106 letters to Gadd but the self-proclaimed “Martha” has denied this was the case in her experience, insisting she did have correspondence with him but not of this volume.
Asked about this, she said: “That’s simply not true. If somebody was sending somebody 41,000 emails or something, they’d be doing how many a day? Lots.” When asked what she did send, she later added: “Now, none of that’s true. I don’t think I sent him anything… No, I think there may have been a couple of emails exchanging, but that was it. Just jokey banter emails. There may have been a couple of emails,” but insisted she never sent text messages or Facebook messages.
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When asked if she tweeted him, she added: “I may have done years and years ago… No, it wasn’t numerous. It’s about 18 tweets.”
Smashing up a bar
The ‘real life’ Martha has insisted she never smashed up a bar. She told Piers tonight: “We’ve had no apologies from Netflix or him, nothing. I mean, for someone who says he feels sorry for me, I’ve had no apology. My character seems to have smashed up a bar, sexually assaulted him in a canal, been to prison. There are a number of other allegations, and… That’s not true.”
Jail time
She also denied she has ever faced prison for what happened. The ‘real life’ Martha has said she did not watch the show and has no plans to – admitting she’d be “sick” if she ever laid eyes on the Netflix show.
Asked if she’s seen it, she told Piers: “Not at all. I’ve heard about the court scene, about the jail sentences and all this sort of stuff… I haven’t watched any of it. I think I’d be sick [if I watched it]. It’s taken over enough of my life. I find it quite obscene. I find it horrifying, misogynistic. 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.”
And one thing that is true
During the interview, the woman claiming to be the ‘real life’ Martha called the show a ‘work of fiction’, and said there were just two true facts in it.
“It’s a work of fiction. 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,” she told Piers.
Netflix or Gadd himself have yet to comment on claims the lady – who The Mirror is not identifying through photographs or by name – is the ‘real-life’ Martha. Netflix’s policy chief Benjamin King said yesterday that Netflix and the production company “took every reasonable precaution in disguising the real-life identities of the people involved in that story.”
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