The real “Martha” depicted in the Netflix streaming smash Baby Reindeer is revealing her identity in public for the first time in a photo promoting an interview with Piers Morgan.
Morgan posted a photo with Martha on X Wednesday, promoting the “world exclusive” with Fiona Harvey, who is claiming to be the woman the Netflix show is based upon.
“The real-life Martha from Baby Reindeer breaks cover and gives me her first TV interview about the smash hit Netflix
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show. Fiona Harvey wants to have her say & ‘set the record straight.’ Is she a psycho stalker?”
The interview is set to air Thursday on Morgan’s YouTube show Piers Uncensored.
Baby Reindeer is a Netflix limited series based on comedian Richard Gadd’s real-life encounter with a stalker whom he dubbed “Martha.”
The limited series has become a worldwide sensation since its release on April 11, topping Netflix’s Global Top 10 TV Shows chart for the week of April 29 to May 5 with 18.6 million views, equating to a staggering 73.6 million viewing hours.
Jessica Gunning plays Martha in the series opposite Gadd, who plays Donny Dunn. Based on his UK stage play of the same name from 2019, Baby Reindeer has been fictionalized for legal purposes but Gadd has said, “Emotionally, it’s all 100% true.”
The woman who claims to be the real-life Martha recently said she is threatening to sue Gadd.
Gadd Says He Has Empathy For Martha
In a Netflix panel for Television Academy members Tuesday (via The Hollywood Reporter), Richard Gadd discussed his “toxic empathy problem” while explaining how bad he felt for Martha.
“I remember in real life when I was getting stalked, it was relentless and felt like it was everywhere, and I felt like my life wasn’t really functioning,” Gadd said during the panel. “I still had these unbelievable pangs of feeling sorry for her.”
Baby Reindeer has found its biggest proponent in legendary horror novelist Stephen King, who recently published an essay to discuss how the series impacted him.
In the essay, he likened the Netflix limited series to his hit novel-turned-film Misery, where a nurse named Annie Wilkes — played by Kathy Bates, who won a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal — holds her favorite author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) captive in her remote Colorado home.
During the Netflix Television Academy panel Tuesday, Gadd said he never “saw someone who was a villain” in Martha.
“I saw someone who was kind of lost by the system, really,” Gadd said during the Netflix panel. “I saw someone who needed help and wasn’t getting it.”
Baby Reindeer is streaming on Netflix.
