Scottish Comedian Richard Gadd’s Netflix Series ‘Reindeer’ Sparks Controversy and Legal Threats

Linear Reindeer it appeared relatively unnoticed on Netflix at the beginning of April, but it became popular in no time. The series is about Scottish comedian Richard Gadd, 33, and Martha, twenty years his senior, who are said to have called it quits from 2015 to 2017. According to Gadd, the hallucinatory series that happened to him at the time.

For example, the woman reportedly disrupted his shows by telling the audience that she was his girlfriend and that she sent him up to a hundred messages a day. In two years, Gadd says he received 41,071 emails, 744 tweets, 46 Facebook messages, 106 letters and 350 hours of emails from his stalker.

Thanks to the research of thousands of fans of the series, it quickly became clear who the real Martha is. The woman says she went to the famous journalist Piers Morgan to tell her story.

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Fiona Harvey, as the 58-year-old is actually called, introduced in the interview Piers Morgan of charge and without registration her own version of the facts. “I had no choice but to do this interview after receiving death threats,” Harvey said. “I haven’t seen the series. I don’t know, because it’s already taken my life over enough.”

According to her, Gadd has “serious mental problems”. She claims that nothing about the series is right. “It’s a work of fiction,” she says. “Only two things are true: his name is Richard Gadd and he worked as a bartender. We only met two or three times.” According to her, the meeting in the series, when Martha walks into a pub in London and Gadd offers her tea as a spy, is already wrong. “Nobody gets anything for free there, he didn’t give me anything. I was hungry and went there to eat something, with a glass of lemonade. I was talking to someone at the time and he stopped our conversation because he heard I was Scottish. From then on he seemed to be obsessed with me.”

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She doesn’t drink alcohol, Harvey says, and she didn’t get free drinks from Gadd. “I had a reindeer when I was young (hence the name of the series, ed.), that’s true. I then jokingly said that it looked like that. ” She denies, among other things, that he came to her house, which you can see in the series. She denies all these messages and voicemails. “I don’t think I sent him anything. There may have been some emails with jokes, but that was 10 at most and certainly not 41,000. ” She also wrote him one letter, she says.

Harvey says he doesn’t know who sent him those messages, which Netflix says it has as evidence of its story. She says that she will take legal action and wants that if it comes to legal action and everything is investigated, it will turn out that she is telling the truth. She also denies that she has ever been charged or convicted. “The point of view where you see that is completely wrong.”