Why Netflix 'should pay real-life Baby Reindeer stalker £132m'! Her plans for payback after 'slap in the face' are revealed in exclusive interview with her US lawyer

Back successful nan days erstwhile he was a penniless, struggling comedian, Richard Gadd could ne'er person imagined nan TV bid he was penning astatine location successful his mini level would extremity up a world hit.

This week, nan creator, head and prima of nan Netflix bid Baby Reindeer said he was 'crying pinch happiness' astatine news from nan US that nan arguable show, which has been viewed much than 85million times and purports to beryllium a 'true story', had received not 1 but 11 Emmy nominations; 3 of them for him alone.

'You person made a small boy from a mini Scottish town's dreams travel true,' gushed nan 35-year-old successful a connection successful which he thanked members of America's National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

'I dream this is simply a reminder for anyone going done a difficult clip correct now to support going. There is ray successful nan darkest of rooms. Fight difficult and you will find it,' he added

No mention, of course, of nan bitter and burgeoning fall-out from nan seven-part bid astir nan acheronian and twisted narration betwixt a penniless, struggling comedian - modelled connected and played by Gadd - and his older female stalker - a characteristic named Martha who is played by character Jessica Gunning successful nan show. 

No mention, either, that nan female identified arsenic nan real-life Martha, 58-year-old Aberdeen rule postgraduate Fiona Harvey, has blasted Gadd's show arsenic 'the biggest dishonesty successful tv history'.

Last period she launched a blistering $170million (£132million) ineligible action against Netflix successful California - 1 which looks group to power up astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic nan 76th Primetime Emmy Awards successful Los Angeles successful September.

This week, successful an exclusive question and reply pinch nan Mail, her lawyer Richard Roth, of The Roth Law Firm successful New York, told maine that nan Emmy nominations were conscionable nan latest 'slap successful nan face' for Harvey who, he said, had 'suffered a life-changing tragedy' arsenic a consequence of 'brutal lies' told astir her successful Baby Reindeer.

'There was immoderate proposal that nan bid shouldn't person been nominated for Emmys because of this ongoing issue,' he said. 'The Netflix declare that Baby Reindeer is simply a existent communicative is intelligibly false.'

He said Harvey, who lives unsocial successful a precocious emergence assembly artifact successful London, has been near 'vulnerable' by nan controversy.

'She's afraid,' said Roth. 'She's acrophobic to spell retired successful lawsuit group outcry astatine her successful nan street. She's had decease threats online, group yelling astatine her that she's a stalker. It's beautiful unbearable for her to person been thrust into nan limelight. What's happened to her is conscionable wrong.'

Harvey's lawyer is not unsocial successful his thinking. Last month, a high-profile Hollywood journalist called for nan Emmy's 25,000-strong academy to snub Gadd and Baby Reindeer because 'it is simply a lie' and 'not awards-worthy'.

Matthew Belloni, erstwhile editor of The Hollywood Reporter and a founding partner of Hollywood-based media institution Puck, pointed retired that Netflix had stated astatine nan very opening of nan Baby Reindeer series: 'This is simply a existent story'.

'Only successful nan extremity does it admit that scenes and characters person been changed. And it worked. Everyone watched, precocious viewership led to awesome buzz, which led to awards attention, each acknowledgment successful portion to what we now cognize is simply a lie.'

When Baby Reindeer first launched connected Netflix successful nan UK backmost successful April, Gadd claimed he had disguised nan on-screen personality of 'Martha'.

Perhaps inevitably, it triggered a frenzied hunt for nan real-life Martha. Given that Gadd had utilized immoderate of Harvey's genuine tweets successful nan show, it didn't return net sleuths agelong to activity retired who she was.

Both Martha and Harvey are Scottish, some studied rule astatine university, some are astir 20 years older than Gadd and some carnivore an uncanny beingness resemblance to each other. Like her lightly-fictionalised change ego, Harvey met Gadd successful nan North London pub wherever he was moving down nan barroom astir a decade ago.

But while Martha is portrayed arsenic a twice-convicted stalker who was sentenced to prison, Harvey insists she has nary stalking convictions.

Roth queries Netflix's determination to authorities Baby Reindeer was existent without first checking nan facts.

'Why didn't they interaction her and truth cheque aliases springiness her a chance to comment?' he asks. 'A batch of things are conscionable mendacious successful nan story. For them to virtually conscionable disregard her and not look to spot that she was ne'er convicted, not once, it's stupid aliases it's very brazen and very intentional.

'Netflix has made a batch of money from this. They could person checked but it's for illustration they went for nan money versus nan honesty. They must person known location was a risk.

'I personally look astatine it from a quality standpoint. She's very vulnerable. She has her ain issues. To put her successful nan limelight is conscionable really wrong.'

Harvey is suing Netflix, among different things, for defamation, intentional infliction of affectional distress, negligence and gross negligence.

According to her 34-page ineligible claim: 'Harvey is physically weak. She has and continues to acquisition anxiety, nightmares, panic attacks, shame, depression, nervousness, tummy pains, nonaccomplishment of appetite and fear, utmost accent and sickness, each straight caused by nan lies told astir her successful Baby Reindeer.'

The archive revenge astatine nan Californian District Court goes consecutive for nan jugular, stating: 'It is simply a dishonesty told by Netflix and nan show's creator, Richard Gadd, retired of greed and lust for fame; a dishonesty designed to pull much viewers, get much attention, to make much money, and to viciously destruct nan life of...Fiona Harvey - an guiltless female defamed by Netflix and Richard Gadd astatine a magnitude and standard without precedent.'

Amid nan ongoing ineligible statement astir Baby Reindeer, which takes its incongruous title from nan pet sanction Gadd alleged Harvey gave him because he reminded her of 1 of her soft toys, fans will nary uncertainty want to cognize nan truth astir what happened.

Over a play of 4 and half years, Gadd said he received 41,071 emails, 744 Tweets, letters totalling 106 pages and near 350 hours of voicemail messages from nan older woman.

Speaking to Piers Morgan connected his YouTube show Uncensored successful May, Harvey denied this and said she sent less than 10 emails, only 18 tweets and conscionable 1 letter.

'I deliberation he astir apt made them up himself,' she said.

This newspaper's ain investigations complete nan past 3 months has grounded to move up immoderate grounds of a stalking condemnation to backmost Netflix's claims, though Harvey received a 'First Instance Harassment Warning' from nan Met Police successful narration to Gadd.

Back successful 2002, erstwhile she was surviving successful Scotland, she was besides nan taxable of an 'interdict' - a restraining bid - which erstwhile Scottish MP's woman and solicitor Laura Wray tried to get against her. Wray besides gave an question and reply to Piers past month, successful which she alleged Harvey was a 'dangerous stalker', thing Harvey denies.

In May, arsenic nan statement complete nan show gathered gait - and drew successful millions much viewers - Netflix executive Benjamin King gave grounds earlier nan government's Culture, Media and Sport Committee, saying nan show was 'obviously a existent communicative of nan horrific maltreatment that nan writer and protagonist Richard Gadd suffered astatine nan hands of a convicted stalker'.

His comments prompted past SNP MP John Nicolson, who was sitting connected nan committee, to later constitute to Netflix asking them to substantiate their claim.

On his individual website, Gadd invites fans to 'watch nan making of Baby Reindeer documentary'. The 12-minute video, posted connected YouTube, takes viewers behinds nan scenes and sees Gadd springiness his thoughts connected nan phenomenon.

'It's a existent communicative based connected my early twenties erstwhile I went done a batch of beautiful crazy things,' he says astatine nan opening of nan video.

Later, he says: 'It's calved retired of existent events. It's calved retired of a existent life happening.'

He besides admitted that erstwhile he and Harvey first met successful nan Hawley Arms successful North London he was drawn to her astatine a clip erstwhile he felt for illustration a failure.

'Having personification astatine nan extremity of nan barroom who was axenic unadulterated adoration was benignant of what I needed but it was foolish of maine and it was utilizing someone. I conjecture I was punished for that successful rather an utmost way.'

He said that she was personification who was 'unwell' and 'needed help'. The mystery, then, is that he didn't effort harder to obscure her identity.

And ironically, by penning astir Harvey, who for illustration him is from a 'small Scottish town', Gadd has entwined his life pinch hers forever.

The awards will beryllium held astatine nan Peacock Theatre successful downtown Los Angeles connected September 19 and will beryllium broadcast live.

By then, a judge whitethorn good person decided whether aliases not to work together to Harvey's declare for a proceedings by jury.

A Netflix spokesperson said past month: 'We intend to take sides nan matter vigorously and to guidelines by Richard Gadd's correct to show his story.'

What happens successful tribunal complete nan adjacent fewer months looks group to beryllium arsenic gripping arsenic nan bid itself.

Not surprisingly, fixed nan latest twist successful this disturbing saga, speculation is accelerated mounting that location mightiness beryllium a Baby Reindeer 2 connected nan horizon.