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baby reindeer Has taken the world by storm. The Netflix drama about a stalker and his victim has been watched more than 13 million times since its launch a fortnight ago, hitting number one on the streamer’s charts in more than 30 countries, including the UK and the US.
This has inevitably led to a lot of internet speculation about the true identities of some of the fictionally named figures in the show, and while Richard Gad – who wrote the show based on his own past experience of being stalked, and the main protagonist Performs as ‘Donnie’. ‘ – has requested that people not try to find out who those people really are, the woman identified as the real-life ‘Martha’ has now said that she has received death threats and abuse from Gad’s supporters. have been found.
the woman who daily Mail Interviewed without revealing his name, he told the newspaper he believed Gad was “bullying an older woman for fame and fortune.” He is quoted as saying: “He is using baby reindeer Now to follow me. I am suffering. He’s written a bloody show about me.
The woman, who denied to the newspaper that she stalked Gad, accused him of “main character syndrome” and disputed aspects of the drama:
“I never had a toy reindeer and I wouldn’t have had any conversations with Richard Gadd about childhood toys.”
Gad has revealed that four and a half years ago, he received 41,071 emails, 744 tweets, a total of 106 pages of letters and 350 hours of voicemail messages from an older woman played by Jessica Gunning on the hit show. The woman said:
“She’s starting to look like me after I gained four stone during lockdown, but I’m not actually ugly.”
Both Gad and Gunning urged viewers not to try to guess the identities of the people baby reindeer“This is not the point of the show,” Gad wrote on Instagram.
