The alleged stalker in Netflix’s hit Baby Reindeer has broken her silence: “I’m the victim.”
The series landed on Netflix last week, and has left viewers glued to their seats for the whole eight episodes.
The limited series, starring Richard Gadd and Jessica Ganning, follows the real-life story of the actor’s experience with a female stalker.
The streaming service described it: “When comedian-slash-barman Donny offers a lonely woman a drink in a Camden pub, he never expects a free cuppa would come with a side of obsession.”
he captivating show is based on Richard’s one-man play, which he debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In the series, the comedian’s character Donny offers Martha, played by Jessica Ganning, a drink while at the bar he works at, unknowingly starting the nightmarish situation.
At first she appears to be friendly, but her behaviour slowly becomes obsessive as she begins to stalk Donny both online and in real life.
Over the span of four and a half years, Richard revealed that he received 41,071 emails, 744 tweets, letters totalling 106 pages and 350 hours of voicemail messages from the older woman [Martha in the show].
The creator of the show who spoke from personal experience explained that he disguised the identity of his stalker: “I don’t think she would recognise herself.”
In an interview with the Daily Mail, the unnamed woman who claims to be Richard’s stalker has opened up about the incident.
The woman revealed that the series is “bullying an older woman on television for fame and fortune” and that she had received “death threats and abuse from Richard Gadd supporters.”
“He’s using Baby Reindeer to stalk me now, I’m the victim. He’s written a bloody show about me.”
“She sort of looks like me after I put on four stone during lockdown but I’m not actually unattractive,” she added.
