The woman who claims to have inspired the character of Martha on the Netflix hit “Baby Reindeer” is going public in her first televised interview.
Fiona Harvey will appear on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” Thursday at 3 p.m. ET in “‘The Real Martha’ Uncensored,” which Morgan described as an “extraordinary interview.”
“The real-life Martha from ‘Baby Reindeer’ breaks cover and gives me her first TV interview about the smash hit Netflix show,” the polarizing broadcaster tweeted Wednesday. “Fiona Harvey wants to have her say and ‘set the record straight.’ Is she a psycho stalker? Find out tomorrow.”
The interview comes just under a month after the miniseries became one of the streamer’s latest runaway successes.
Created by and starring Scottish actor Richard Gadd, the largely autobiographical drama centers on his character Donny. While bartending in London, Donny befriends customer Martha (Jessica Gunning) and quickly becomes the object of her obsession and, ultimately, years of stalking.
The series also explores how Donny himself may have fanned the fires of Martha’s fantasies, in part as a faulty coping mechanism from sexual abuse he endured at the hands of a supposed mentor.
While Gadd recently told Forbes the show is “all emotionally 100% true,” he noted that some elements were fictionalized “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,” he explained.
On April 22, Gadd urged viewers not to “speculate on who any of the real life people could be. That’s not the point of our show.”
“Baby Reindeer” currently boasts a 98% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
