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as a ‘true story’. The hit Netflix show was written by Richard Gadd and based on his own experience of being stalked in his early 20s by an older woman.
Although the show changed the character’s name to ‘Martha’, fans of the show were quickly able to identify Richard’s alleged stalker as a Scottish woman called Fiona Harvey, who has since announced that she is suing Netflix for £132million for defamation, negligence intentional infliction of emotional distress, and violations of right of publicity.
He added that he thought Netflix owed Fiona an explanation, saying: “Personally, arguably, yes but I guess this will play out in the courts. And I guess Netflix are deliberately being tight-lipped about this because perhaps they have a robust case to rebut her claims.“Now, all I know about Netflix is there are a team of lawyers there, there is a compliance team there, so someone, more than once will have cast their eyes over the script and the final programme.
She added: “He is lying and they are lying. And in order for a dramatisation to be true, it’s got to be… the only defence is Veritas. I’m telling the truth. Or, the whole drama needs to be true. They have billed it as a ‘true story’. So has he. And it’s not. It’s blatantly not. Even if the email thing was true, the rest is not.
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