Creator Richard Gadd tapped into experiences from his own life to make his powerful new miniseries.
depicts struggling comedian Donny’s experience with a stalker called Martha , and weaves in complex themes of trauma, mental health and sexual assault.
Now adapted for the screen, viewers are wondering just how much of the show is true. Read on for all the facts behind Baby Reindeer…In the first episode of the Baby Reindeer, Donny meets Martha at his pub job and kindly offers her a cup of tea on the house when she insists she can’t afford a drink.. “Then she started to invade my life, following me, turning up at my gigs, waiting outside my house, sending thousands of voicemails and emails.
Richard has claimed in the past that he made some decisions that didn’t always help matters when it came to his real-life stalker. The actor and comedian toldsaid that it was “foolish” of him to give in to the “pure unadulterated adoration” that his stalker gave him when going through a personal crisis, admitting that it was “using someone”.: “Sometimes Donny would play into her fantasy: He’d flirt back, and she’d be absolutely thrilled. He just doesn’t know how obsessed she will become.
However, this is one aspect of the show where the comedian and writer has alluded to granting himself some creative licence.that they have “gone to such great lengths to disguise her to the point that I don’t think she would recognise herself”. He added: “What’s been borrowed is an emotional truth, not a fact-by-fact profile of someone.”
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