THE woman portrayed as a stalker in Netflix hit Baby Reindeer was made to look like a “monster”, court documents claim. They say Fiona Harvey ’s life has been “literally destroyed” by the drama, which made the Scot out to be a “head-smashing rapist”. Her legal team say she got death threats over the series — billed as a true story.
She claims the streaming giant defamed her in its “unrestrained pursuit of adding more subscribers” and is suing in California for $170million . Netflix has denied it defamed Ms Harvey, 48, and has asked for the case to be dismissed. The company claimed her conduct in real life was “far worse” than Martha, the stalker in the show written by comedian Richard Gadd , and that Baby Reindeer was a work of fiction.
READ MORE ON BABY REINDEER Ms Harvey got death threats and a ‘non-stop’ stream of messages from people who ‘wanted to confront the monster in Baby Reindeer’, Mr Roth claimed. "As a direct result, Harvey has experienced chest pains, panic attacks, insomnia , and general fear of going outside," he said. The dozens of pages of emails, texts and voicemails Mr Gadd claims that Ms Harvey sent him were ‘irrelevant, impertinent, and scandalous’ and part of ‘scorched earth litigation’ Mr Roth said.
The Netflix series follows a man who is relentlessly perused by an obsessed woman, with fans wondering if the show is a true story. Most read in News TV Baby Reindeer 's harrowing plot is based on Scottish comedian and leading star Richard Gadd's real-life experience of having a female stalker . At first he turned his traumatic story into a critically-acclaimed play, before Netflix made it into a series of the same name.
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