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  • I don't think I sent him anything.

  • You never sent him anything?

  • No. I think there may have been a couple of emails exchanging, but that was it.

  • Baby Reindeer's alleged stalker, Fiona Harvey, gives her take on the series.

  • After writer-actor Richard Gadd shared what he calls his true story of being stalked by an older woman on the Netflix series Baby Reindeer,

  • the woman who allegedly inspired the character Martha has come forward to share her truth.

  • In an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Fiona Harvey denies that she was obsessed with Gadd,

  • saying the only quote "true facts" of the show are that she met him while he was working as a bartender at the Holly Arms in London.

  • He didn't offer me a cup of tea. Nobody gets anything free from the Holly Arms.

  • I was in for a meal with a drink of lemonade and I was very, very hungry.

  • I'm diabetic, so very hungry. So that's true.

  • And did you talk to him?

  • He interrupted a conversation. There was another barman there and he said, "Oh, you're Scottish," and basically commandeered the conversation.

  • And although Baby Reindeer states that Martha, a former lawyer, sent bartender Donnie, played by Gadd, 41,000 emails and 350 voicemails,

  • Harvey calls that completely incorrect when it comes to her experience with the comedian.

  • I don't think I sent him anything.

  • You never sent him anything?

  • No. I think there may have been a couple of emails exchanging, but that was it.

  • Just jokey banter emails.

  • Netflix have said that these details are the real ones.

  • So this is completely incorrect. - So this is exactly...

  • So you're denying sending anything to him?

  • There may have been a couple of emails.

  • Text messages?

  • Nope.

  • Facebook messages?

  • Nope.

  • Did you tweet him?

  • I may have done years and years ago.

  • You actually tweeted him numerous times.

  • No, it wasn't numerous. It was about 18 tweets there or 14.

  • It's quite a lot to someone who's not that well-known.

  • She also reveals that she did indeed have a reindeer toy growing up, a reference that she said inadvertently inspired the name of the Netflix show.

  • Did you have a baby reindeer?

  • I had a toy reindeer.

  • So that's true.

  • And he shaved his head. That bit is true.

  • There were reindeers in the shops. It was Christmas time or something. It was a joke.

  • Harvey, who says she has a law degree from University of Aberdeen, also confirmed that she and Gadd had a conversation about hanging curtains as a, quote, "sexual innuendo," which is depicted in one scene.

  • This, I think, was a holy arms joke about curtains and a lot of sexual innuendo.

  • He did say that?

  • Yeah.

  • He asked me to sleep with him.

  • He said, "Would I like my curtains fixed?" And I laughed.

  • And he said, "That's a euphemism. Do you want me to come home with you?"

  • And I said, "I've got a boyfriend."

  • I gave him the brush off big, well, big time, I think.

  • You know, it's subtly so.

  • But the bottom line is, I think this is behind him. - You didn't fancy him?

  • No, I don't fancy him.

  • I don't fancy little boys without jobs.

  • You wrote on the 18th of December,

  • "Please go and see Richard Gadd's show. It's well-written and erotic. The filmed bum shots are the best. Fantastic ass."

  • It was a joke. It was a joke.

  • We were trying to encourage him.

  • Nothing negative, though, about it there?

  • No, because I didn't think he was a complete psychopath who was going to attack me in this way.

  • But as for the Baby Reindeer plot lines that Harvey says were made up?

  • Did you ever attack Richard Gadd's girlfriend because you were jealous?

  • No, I don't think he had a girlfriend.

  • I think he's, say, homosexual.

  • But no, I have never been to his house or attacked any girlfriend or anything like that.

  • There are lots of scenes where Martha is sitting outside his house all day.

  • Did you ever do that?

  • No.

  • Did you ever contact Richard Gadd's parents and threaten them?

  • No, that allegation was put to me by journalists, no.

  • Never happened?

  • No.

  • It goes on to say that you heckled Richard Gadd when he was appearing in his stand-up shows.

  • Did you ever do that?

  • No.

  • Never?

  • No, it's not.

  • Did you ever attend his stand-up?

  • I think I went to one. It was a long, long time ago.

  • And you never shouted out or anything?

  • Why would I do that?

  • I don't know.

  • No, no, I mean, why would anybody do that?

  • Do you ever shout out at comedy shows? I don't know.

  • No, no, I don't generally go to comedy shows.

  • So you never heckled him?

  • No.

  • Harvey says that, unlike Martha, she has never been charged with a crime and has never been to jail or prison.

  • So that scene is completely invented.

  • That's completely false.

  • But that's a fundamental point here, because if they basically have a key point in their drama, which they say is a true story,

  • which involves you admitting to intimidating Richard Gadd and getting a nine-month prison sentence, and that is completely untrue.

  • That's completely untrue.

  • Very, very defamatory to me.

  • Very career damaging.

  • And I wanted to rebut that completely on this show.

  • I'm not a stalker.

  • I've not been to jail.

  • I've not got injunctions.

  • This is just complete nonsense.

  • Harvey, who says she's been in a relationship with a lawyer for the past five years, is ultimately accusing Netflix and Gadd of defamation and says she'll be taking legal action against them.

  • Gadd has not confirmed who may have inspired Martha and has asked fans not to speculate who the characters are based on.

  • While he feels the show is emotionally 100% true, he did change some of the details of the storyline, telling Variety in an interview published April 19th,

  • "It's all borrowed from instances that happened to me and real people that I met.

  • But of course, you can't do the exact truth for both legal and artistic reasons.

  • I mean, there's certain protections. You can't just copy somebody else's life and name and put it onto television.

  • And obviously, we were very aware that some characters in it are vulnerable people, so you don't want to make their lives more difficult."

  • E! News has reached out to Netflix and Gadd for comment on her interview but hasn't heard back.

I don't think I sent him anything.

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