EXCLUSIVE Baby Reindeer legal scrap looks certain as 'real-life Martha' Fiona Harvey denies going to prison or court as the stalker from the show does By Alison Boshoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00, 30 May 2024 | Updated: 22:07, 30 May 2024 e-mail 4 View comments A legal showdown now looks set between Netflix and the woman who claims her supposed depiction in Baby Reindeer is untrue. Fiona Harvey, who says the stalker depicted in the show – Martha – is based on her, denies ever going to prison or to court, as the character is seen doing. It can now be revealed that the writer and star, Richard Gadd, who based the show on his own experiences, told makers Clerkenwell Films that his stalker was never convicted.
Sources indicate that Gadd told Clerkenwell that the stalker was the subject of an 'exclusion order' – a civil order and not the same as a criminal conviction of stalking. A legal showdown now looks set between Netflix and the woman who claims her supposed depiction in Baby Reindeer is untrue. Pictured: Fiona Harvey Fiona Harvey, who says the stalker depicted in the show – Martha – is based on her, denies ever going to prison or to court, as the character is seen doing.
Pictured: Martha in the show Richard Gadd, who wrote and starred in the miniseries, pictured in north London This means that the programme was always a fictionalised dramatisation – though it went out under a banner which read 'this is a true story'. Embarrassingly, a Netflix executive, .
