Richard Gadd wants people to stop speculating about the real subjects of his hit Netflix show. But what did he expect?
, Richard Gadd’s dark tale of a comedian and his obsessive stalker, is topping the UK Netflix chart, riding high in several other territories and receiving Emmys heat, all in its first 10 days of release.
During promotion for the show, Gadd has been at great pains to describe his stalker as “unwell and needing help”. She is, he says, as much of a victim as he was in this awful story. But he seems to have used, verbatim, several of the real messages left by her on his social media posts, in the TV show. This trail of virtual breadcrumbs has inevitably led some to search for the woman they say is the real Martha. Yesterday, #TheRealMartha was trending on several social media platforms.
To use what appear to be this woman’s actual words in the script seems at best irresponsible and at worst, downright cynical. He must have been aware that dangling the carrot of a true story would ignite curiosity. Gadd says he went to great lengths to disguise the real people who stalked and abused him, but some amateur detectives seemed to arrive at their conclusions, rightly or wrongly, with relative ease. You might argue that people accused of serious crimes relinquish their right to careful treatment or anonymity, but Gadd himself seems to understand the need for caution, even if he hasn’t sufficiently deployed that caution in this case.
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