Netflix on Friday said it will fight a multimillion-dollar claim for damages brought by a Scottish woman who alleges she was defamed by the global hit show “Baby Reindeer.”
Fiona Harvey is seeking a jury trial and damages totaling $170 million for “mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life and loss of business,” according to a complaint filed in the District Court for the Central District of California. In the Netflix miniseries, comedian Richard Gadd recounts the “true story” of being stalked by a woman who bombards him with more than 40,000 emails and hundreds of hours of voice messages.
In an essay for Netflix, he said the situation was “messy” and “complicated,” but he believed the story needed to be told. On Thursday, Gadd and Jessica Gunning, who plays Scott, appeared on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” to talk about the thriller’s huge success. “It’s just had this sort of almost cross-cultural success that I never expected, because it’s so singular and it’s very idiosyncratic, it’s very London, and it’s such an odd story, a weird traumatic story,” Gadd said.
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