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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.