“Reindeer Baby” star Richard Gadd: He didn’t see his stalker as a “villain”

“Baby Reindeer” star Richard Gadd
He didn’t see his stalker as a “villain”

With “baby reindeer”. Richard Gadd (34) created one of the most successful Netflix series of the year so far. In the seven-part production, the series creator and author not only plays the main role, the script for the series is also based on his own, quite complicated, experiences with a real stalker. Now the series creator explained that he feels pity for the woman who once stalked him and bombarded him with thousands of emails and calls.

Richard Gadd on stalker: “Someone who needed help”

“I struggle with some kind of toxic empathy problem,” Gadd said according to People on Tuesday (May 7) at an event. Despite the “relentless” stalking, which “felt like it was everywhere” and left him feeling like his life was “not really functional,” he had “these incredible bouts of pity for her,” Gadd explained.

“She said something in one of those voicemails and I thought, ‘Oh my God, at the end of the day she’s just someone in a lot of pain,'” the actor elaborated. He therefore thought it was important to convey the story with sympathy. “I never saw anyone who was a villain. I saw someone who was lost by the system. I saw someone who needed help and wasn’t getting it,” he added.

Is this woman the “real” Martha Scott?

Shortly after the release of “Reindeer Baby,” resourceful Internet detectives tracked down the woman who had been stalking Gadd for months. The actor then asked viewers in a statement on Instagram not to speculate about the true identities of the characters in “Baby Reindeer.” “That’s not the point of our show,” he wrote. In an interview with the British “Guardian” He also said that he had changed some events to “create dramatic climaxes”, but that everything was based on real events from his life.

The woman who is said to have inspired the character Martha Scott (played by Jessica Gunning, 38) has since spoken out in numerous interviews. Opposite the “Daily Mail” She said she would consider filing a defamation lawsuit against Gadd because she had received “death threats and insults” from fans of the show. She accused Gadd of using the series “to stalk me and bully an older woman on television for fame and fortune.”

Piers Morgan interviews ‘baby reindeer’ stalker

And that’s not all: As the British TV presenter Piers Morgan (59) now announced, the “real” Martha from “Reindeer Baby” was a guest on his show “Piers Morgan Uncensored”. “She gave me her first TV interview about the Netflix hit and wants to speak out and set the record straight,” Morgan wrote on May 8 on platform X. The interview is scheduled to air on Thursday evening (May 9).

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