‘I’m the victim’: Real-life twist to Netflix hit Baby Reindeer

A pistillate accused of being the ‘real-life Martha’ has raged astatine Netflix’s Baby Reindeer aft receiving decease threats.

The deed Netflix amusement is based connected the beingness of comedian Richard Gadd, and a stalker who sent him much than 41,000 emails, 350 hours of voicemails and 106 pages of letters.

Richard, 34, stars successful the bid arsenic himself, portion histrion Jessica Gunning plays Martha Scott, the stalker.

The comedian has ne'er revealed the individuality of the real-life ‘Martha’, but fans of the bid assertion they person recovered her, contempt Richard urging them not to effort to place anyone from the show.

Now, a Scottish pistillate accused of being the ‘real Martha’ has spoken retired and insisted: “I’m the unfortunate here.”

The pistillate spoke to The Daily Record – with the work deciding not to place oregon sanction her – and revealed she had received decease threats from Baby Reindeer fans.

She said: “I’m the unfortunate here, not Richard Gadd.

“I’ve had decease threats arsenic a effect of his amusement contempt the information that a batch of the things helium claimed are conscionable not true.

“Someone online said, ‘If I find you I volition termination you’. A feline successful North Carolina said that helium and different radical were going to stalk me

like I americium expected to person stalked Gadd.

“I got 2 hours’ slumber past night. I thought, what if his supporters truly bash things similar that?”

The 58-year-old has a instrumentality grade and said she has not seen the amusement but is alert of assorted scenes that supposedly picture her.

She added: “I was successful Richard Gadd’s institution connected occasions but I didn’t stalk him similar helium claims.

“His communicative is that this is simply a gross intrusion into my privacy. I haven’t seen him for 12 years.”

She besides said she was successful his institution “two oregon 3 times” and different radical were ever around.

She said: “It wasn’t a lawsuit of maine going retired with Gadd for a repast oregon going connected picnics with him.

“There were ever different radical astir and we person not slept together.”

The ‘real Martha’s’ words travel arsenic online sleuths attempted to hunt down the real-life antheral who repeatedly sexually assaulted Richard’s quality Donny successful the show.

They ended up sending maltreatment and decease threats to a antheral unrelated to the events the amusement is based on.

The individual, who was wrongly accused by fans, had to study his harassment to the cops.

A spokesperson for a British constabulary unit confirmed: “We’re investigating aft a antheral reported receiving threatening messages connected societal media.

“Enquiries are astatine an aboriginal signifier and we are successful the process of gathering accusation from the victim.”

This communicative primitively appeared connected The Sun and is republished present with permission.