The new Netflix drama 'Baby Reindeer' is the talk of the Internet. And now, the alleged real-life stalker who inspired the character Martha is speaking out. An unnamed woman, who claims to be the inspiration behind actress Jessica Gunning's character Martha in the popular series, told the Daily Mail she was considering legal action for defamation following the release of the project. 'Baby Reindeer,' created by and starring Richard Gadd, is billed as a true story inspired by events that happened in Gadd's life.
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00:00 The new Netflix drama Baby Reindeer is the talk of the internet, and now the alleged
00:04 real-life stalker who inspired the character Martha is speaking out.
00:09 An unnamed woman who claims to be the inspiration behind actress Jessica Gunning's character
00:13 Martha in the new popular series, told the Daily Mail she was considering legal action
00:18 for defamation following the release of the project.
00:20 Baby Reindeer, created by and starring Richard Gadd, is billed as a true story inspired by
00:25 events that happened in Gadd's life.
00:26 "I miss you."
00:27 "Ladies and gentlemen, this is my stalker.
00:30 Say hello to Martha."
00:31 "Don't you say that to me!
00:32 Apologize to me right now!"
00:34 "Can't take my mom anywhere."
00:37 The show follows a character named Donnie Dunn, a struggling comedian who encounters
00:41 a lonely woman at the bar where he works.
00:43 The chance encounter, during which he offers her a free cup of tea, spirals over several
00:47 months as Martha is revealed to be a dangerous serial stalker.
00:50 Over the course of multiple years, she's sent him more than 41,000 emails, 744 tweets, 100
00:56 pages of letters, and 350 hours of voicemails.
01:00 While speaking with the tabloid, the woman insisted that Gadd was actually the one obsessed
01:03 with her.
01:04 She said, "He's using Baby Reindeer to stalk me now.
01:07 I'm the victim.
01:08 He's written a bloody show about me."
01:10 She claimed that Gadd's script amounted to "bullying an older woman on television for
01:14 fame and fortune," and that despite his attempts to hide her identity, she has received online
01:19 death threats and abuse since the show was released.
01:22 Gadd has previously explained that he couldn't tell the exact story for legal and artistic
01:26 reasons, noting that he must take certain protections.
01:28 He also told his Instagram followers, "Please don't speculate on who any of the real people
01:33 could be.
01:34 That's not the point of our show."
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