Baby Reindeer 誘発するs police 調査（する） after online sleuths wrongly identify theatre director Sean Foley as Richard Gadd's abuser in 'defamatory, abusive and 脅すing 地位，任命するs'

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Netflix's Baby Reindeer has led to a police 調査 after fans wrongly （刑事）被告 a theatre director of 存在 the real-life abuser 描写するd in the show.?

Comedian Richard Gadd has said Baby Reindeer is based on his own experiences of 存在 stalked by a woman and sexually 乱用d by a high profile comedy スパイ／執行官, 指名するd Darrien O'Connor in the show, who is played by Tom Goodman-Hill.?

The show has 即時に become a 攻撃する，衝突する since its 解放（する） on April 11 and fans have gone crazy over 可能性のある theories on who each of the characters are in real life, with some social マスコミ sleuths （人命などを）奪う，主張するing Darrien was based on?二塁打 Olivier Award 勝利者 Sean Foley, 59.

On Tuesday, Sean - the 去っていく／社交的な Creative Director of Birmingham Rep - 明らかにする／漏らすd on X, 以前は Twitter, that he had 接触するd police who are 調査／捜査するing the 地位，任命するs made against him.?

Director Sean Foley (pictured) has 接触するd police over defamatory 地位，任命するs made against him, which 明言する／公表する he is the inspiration behind the abuser in Netflix's Baby Reindeer

Social マスコミ sleuths （人命などを）奪う，主張する the Baby Reindeer character Darrien (pictured) was based on 二塁打 Olivier Award 勝利者 Sean Foley, 59.

He said: 'Police have been 知らせるd and are 調査／捜査するing all defamatory abusive and 脅すing 地位，任命するs against me.'?

Gadd himself tried to shut 負かす／撃墜する the 憶測 against Foley, 令状ing on Instagram: 'People I love, have worked with, and admire (含むing Sean Foley) are 不公平に getting caught up in 憶測.?

'Please don't 推測する on who any of the real life people could be. That's not the point of our show.'

Foley then reposted a screenshot of the 声明 to his Twitter account.?

But even this failed to 静かな the 共謀 theories, which were made worse when it was 発表するd last week that Foley would be stepping 負かす／撃墜する from his 役割 as?artistic director at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in the summer.?

Fans were 納得させるd that the タイミング of his 出発 with the 解放（する） of the show could not be a coincidence and soon lambasted Foley with their theories - which 欠如（する） any proof.?

They were also struck by the likeness between Foley and actor Tom Goodman-Hill - and the fact Gadd and Foley had worked together on an episode of 都市の Myths in 2018.?

Foley had directed an episode 肩書を与えるd Princess Diana, Freddie 水銀柱，温度計 and Kenny Everett starring Gadd, によれば IMDb.? ?

The armchair 探偵，刑事s then 'deduced' this was the basis of Gadd's 関係 with his abuser in the show, who also worked together on scripts.?

The sleuths pointed out similarities between their looks and the fact that both are theatre directors in London.??

Sean took to Twitter to 発表する he has 接触するd West Midlands Police, who are 調査／捜査するing

The seven-part thriller series follows the real-life story of comedian Richard Gadd, who plays himself in the form of struggling Scottish comedian Donny Dunn

Fans have also been trying to 跡をつける 負かす／撃墜する the real 身元 of stalker 'Martha', played by Jessica Gunning

Foley was 任命するd to his 役割 at the Birmingham Rep in 2019 and is known for 存在 behind Spitting Image The Musical

West Midlands Police said: 'We're 調査／捜査するing after a man 報告（する）／憶測d receiving 脅すing messages on social マスコミ.

'Enquiries are at an 早期に 行う／開催する／段階 and we are in the 過程 of 集会 （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） from the 犠牲者.'

In the show, Gadd 会合，会うs his abuser 'Darrien' after failing to 勝利，勝つ over （人が）群がるs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.?

Left d isappointed by his show's 欠如（する） of success, Gadd (in his 役割 as Donny Dunn) befriends Darrien, a successful TV (n)役員／(a)執行力のある who （人命などを）奪う，主張するs he can help his career.?

But Darrien is not as he seems - and an abusive cycle begins as Donny visits his flat to 'work on his scripts'.?

The the two take hard 麻薬s and, while Donny is unconscious, Darrien 強姦s him and leaves him with serious 継続している 外傷／ショック.?

Gadd, 34, 以前 made it （疑いを）晴らす that he's changed 指名するs and 明確な／細部 詳細（に述べる）s of the story to 保護する the 身元s of those 伴う／関わるd, even （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that 'Martha' 'would not even recognise herself' in the 攻撃する，衝突する show.?

But he has been （刑事）被告 of 'not doing enough' to 保護する their real 身元s, にもかかわらず 明言する／公表するing 明確に he doesn't want fans to '推測する'.?

Internet sleuths have been trying to 跡をつける 負かす／撃墜する Gadd's TV (n)役員／(a)執行力のある abuser, meaning people in the public 注目する，もくろむ are 存在 hounded by 憶測.?

Foley was 任命するd to his 役割 at the Birmingham Rep in 2019 and is known for co-令状ing Spitting Image The Musical with Al Murray.?

Gadd himself tried to shut 負かす／撃墜する the 憶測 against Foley, in a 声明 he reposted

The 34-year-old has made it （疑いを）晴らす he has changed 指名するs and 明確な／細部 詳細（に述べる）s of the story to 保護する the 身元s of those 伴う／関わるd (Pictured: His stalker in the show Martha, played by?足緒 Gunning)

Richard Gadd (pictured) relived a 一連の a traumatic events in the 批判的に-acclaimed Netflix show?

His 早期に success （機の）カム as part of the comedy 二塁打 行為／法令／行動する The 権利 Size with Hamish McColl and their long-running show The Play What I Wrote until 2006.?

He has 非常に／多数の directorial accolades under his belt, 含むing on the West End (such as Ladykillers in 2012) and with the 王室の Shakespeare Company.?

Foley has worked with many a famous 指名する, 含むing Matthew MacFadyen and Stephen Mangan in a theatrical 見解／翻訳／版 of PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster stories, Perfect Nonsense.?

In March 2016 he adapted and directed The Painkiller starring Kenneth Branagh and 略奪する Brydon during Kenneth Branagh season at the Garrick Theatre.?

More recently he directed The Upstart Crow by Ben Elton, based on the BBC TV series with David Mitchell as William Shakespeare.?

During his time as artistic director at The Rep, Foley directed the 20th 周年記念日 生産／産物 of The Play What I Wrote starring Tom Hiddleston and oversaw a rebrand of the theatre.?

He said that 2023 was 'one of the very best years' in the Rep's history, which he put 負かす／撃墜する to work 含むing three world 首相s and two West End 移転s.??

Richard Gadd plays the lead in the series, and has said it is based on his own experiences of 存在 stalked and sexually 乱用d by a high profile comedy スパイ／執行官?

Speaking about his 決定／判定勝ち（する） to step 負かす／撃墜する from the Birmingham Rep, Foley said: 'It has been an honour to be the Artistic Director of this magnificent and historic theatre over the past 5 years.?

'I will be stepping 負かす／撃墜する over the Summer, with Withnail and I?存在 the last 生産／産物 I direct as Artistic Director, and the programme will continue through into the Autumn and beyond with the wonderful new musical Becoming Nancy, and ? a particular delight ? the as yet to be 発表するd main 行う／開催する／段階 debut of Associate Director, Madeleine Kludje.'

In the show, Donny says about his abuser: 'When it （機の）カム to the point of going to the police, I just couldn’t stand the irony of 報告（する）／憶測ing her but not him.?

'There was always a sense that she was ill, that she couldn’t help it, 反して he was a pernicious, manipulative groomer. To 収容する／認める to her was to 収容する／認める to him, and I hadn’t 認める him to anyone yet.'

It is n ot known what happened to Gadd's abuser in real life.??

Baby Reindeer delves into Richard's harrowing real-life stalking ordeal and 残虐な 性の 乱用 as he plays a fictionalised 見解／翻訳／版 of himself called Donny Dunn.

Donny is flooded with 41,071 emails, 744 tweets, 350 voicemails and 106 pages of letters from stalker Martha, played by 足緒 Gunning.?

The Netflix series sees Martha be given a 刑務所，拘置所 宣告，判決 for her offences but Gadd hasn't divulged the 運命／宿命 of his own stalker, except to say the 問題／発行する has been 解決するd and he never 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 'throw someone who was that level of mentally unwell in 刑務所，拘置所'. Jessi ca Gunning and Richard last week?

People have 示唆するd that enough 詳細（に述べる）s of the real stalker's life, and her messages to Gadd were 含むd in the 演劇 that amateur 捜査官／調査官s were 恐らく able to identify her online.?

The series also 詳細（に述べる）s Donny's horrifying 強姦 at the 手渡すs of his comedy 助言者 Darrien played by Tom Goodman-Hill.

Darrien 説得するs Donny to come to his flat and get high on 麻薬s, by 約束ing him that TV 生産者s are 利益／興味d in his work.

However while on 麻薬s he sexually 強襲，強姦s Donny 多重の times.?

Mr Gadd has opened up about what it was like to re-制定する his 外傷／ショック for the small 審査する - and how he hopes it will 援助（する） his 傷をいやす／和解させるing 過程.