Richard was relentlessly stalked by a middle-aged woman after offering her a free cup of tea
star Richard Gadd has shared his theory on why he thinks his stalker Martha walked into the pub he was working at on the first day they met.series, which follows struggling comedian Donny Dunn, who gives a troubled woman named Martha a cup of tea for free during a pub shift. What begins as a kind gesture soon turns into a nightmare when Martha becomes obsessed with Donny and starts to stalk him relentlessly.
"Sometimes I question was it the end of her stalking relationship with someone else and the beginning of her stalking relationship with me?"r is an adaptation of Richard's one-man stage play, which debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019, and won him the Scotsman Fringe First Award and a Stage Award for Acting Excellence.
"It's that femme fatale trope that comes with stalking, someone who seems perfect but then they're not," said the 34-year-old. "That wasn't what this was like."Stalking is a severe mental illness and a sort of fantasy addiction when this person genuinely believes that this other person is fundamentally the answer to their problems and nothing you can say or do will get them out of that.
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