A woman who believes she is the inspiration behind the stalker portrayed in Baby Reindeer has said she has not seen the show and only met its creator two or three times.Scottish lawyer Fiona Harvey, 58, spoke to Piers Morgan about how she was portrayed as a “stalker” in the hit Netflix black comedy, which she said is defamatory and untrue.The show stars Richard Gadd as a version of himself, Donny, with the character largely based on his own experiences of being stalked and the toll it took on his relationships and career.Harvey alleged that Gadd was “making money out of untrue facts” and denied ever being at his home, contacting his parents or sending thousands of texts and emails.
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00:00sitting in a bus stop, sitting out there, walking around, and would occasionally
00:04shout at him. Did you ever do that? No, I haven't seen the show, but I'm getting...
00:09I have, so I'm telling you. Yes, I got all the court allegations, the trial allegations.
00:14I'm going to come to that, but on that point, did you ever turn up at his house? No, I don't know
00:19where he lived. No, absolutely not. So whoever's doing all this is somebody
00:23completely different. This is a fictional character, hyperbole, exaggeration. This is a
00:28figment of his imagination. They say it's based on a real person. Who's they?
00:33Netflix. Well, Netflix and Richard Gadd. Netflix are about as mad as Richard Gadd.
00:37If they're saying that, it's absolutely not correct. Did you ever contact Richard Gadd's
00:41parents and threaten them? No, that allegation was put to me by journalists, no. Never happened? No.