Show’s creator files a declaration of support for Netflix, which is being sued for $170m by the woman who has identified herself as the inspiration for stalker Martha Scott
creator and star Richard Gadd has detailed the “exhausting and extremely upsetting” stalking he allegedly experienced at the hands of the woman who is suing Netflix over her portrayal in the series., Gadd described years of “stalking, harassment, abuse and threats” he allegedly suffered from the plaintiff, Fiona Harvey, between 2014 and 2017.
“Although these stage productions were emotionally true and based on real events in my life, they dramatised people, places, things, and events to tell a story,” Gadd wrote in the filing. “I did not write the Series as a representation of actual facts about any real person, including Fiona Harvey … Martha Scott is not Fiona Harvey.”
After two years of harassment, during which he claims he received “thousands of emails, hundreds of voicemails, and a number of handwritten letters”, which were often “sexually explicit, violent” with “derogatory content, hateful speech, and threats”, Gadd claims he reported Harvey to the police in February 2016.
Gadd said a First Instance Harassment Warning was issued against Harvey in May 2016, and the emails and voicemails stopped. But he alleged that he subsequently received a handwritten letter from her with a pair of underwear inside in August 2017.
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