Netflix's Baby Reindeer: Alleged real-life stalker slams writer Richard Gadd - here's why

Netflix’s Baby Reindeer, which released on April 11 on the OTT giant, has turned out to be a global hit. However, the show’s real-life Martha (stalker) has broke her silence and slammed writer Richard Gadd as she is getting “death threats and abuse” from people who have figured out her identity.

For the unversed, Baby Reindeer is based on comedian Richard Gadd’s experience with a stalker. Talking to Dail Mail, she said, “He’s using Baby Reindeer to stalk me now,” accusing Gadd of “bullying an older woman on television for fame and fortune.”

“I’m the victim,” she said. “He’s written a bloody show about me.”

The woman added, “He always thinks he’s at the center of things. I’m not writing shows about him or promoting them in the media, am I? If he wanted me to be properly anonymous, he could have done so. Gadd should leave me alone.”

While Gadd has not responded to these accusations, on 19th April, he told Variety, “It’s all borrowed from instances that happened to me and real people that I met,” adding, “But of course, you can’t do the exact truth, for both legal and artistic reasons. I mean, there’s certain protections, you can’t just copy somebody else’s life and name and put it onto television. And obviously, we were very aware that some characters in it are vulnerable people, so you don’t want to make their lives more difficult.”

“All I ever wanted to do was capture something complicated about the human condition,” Gadd wrote in the show’s Netflix description. “That we all make mistakes. That no person is ever good or bad. That we are all lost souls looking for love in our own weird way.”

He added, “Hoping that in amongst all the messy, complicated, f–ked up themes, Baby Reindeer throws at you that people might take notice of its beating heart.”