Baby Reindeer real vs dramatized: The 冷気／寒がらせるing true story behind comedian Richard Gadd's stalking ordeal and horrific 性の 強襲，強姦

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Raw, powerful and honest, comedian Richard Gadd's Netflix 攻撃する，衝突する Baby Reindeer has left テレビ視聴者s unable to look away.?

Baby Reindeer delves into Richard's harrowing real-life stalking ordeal and 残虐な 性の 乱用 - and sees the Scottish actor play a fictionalised 見解／翻訳／版 of himself, called Donny Dunn.?

Throughout the series, Donny is hounded by a woman called Martha? - played by Jessica Gunning - as she relentlessly calls, messages, and 令状s him, 同様に as stalking him at the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 he 作品, at home and at his comedy gigs.

The tale gets progressively darker as each episode passes and as Martha's obsession 強めるs, and later becomes physical, Donny is 軍隊d to 解任する his past 外傷／ショック 関係のある to 存在 sexually 強襲，強姦d.

But as Richard agonisingly relives his 外傷／ショック on the small 審査する, how much of the series is true to reality???

As Scottish comedian Richard Gadd agonisingly relives his 外傷／ショック on the small 審査する, how much of Netflix series Baby Reindeer is true to reality?

FACT?

Richard first met his real-life stalker after he 申し込む／申し出d 'a crying stranger a cup of tea' when she （機の）カム into the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 where he worked in 2015.

But the woman's obsession grew. She started 侵略するing his life by に引き続いて him around and even waiting outside his home - with her stalking spanning four and a half years.

She would heckle him at his gigs and 乱用 his parents, even putting his 暮らし in danger by calling him a paedophile の中で his work 同僚s.?

最初, Richard's friends saw the funny 味方する in the attention from his stalker, with the actor [以前 説: 'At first everyone at the pub thought it was funny that I had an admirer.?

'Then she started to 侵略する my life, に引き続いて me, turning up at my gigs, waiting outside my house, sending thousands of voicemails and emails.'

Netflix said that every 選び出す／独身 email shown in the series was a real message sent from the stalker to Richard.

However the stalker also gave him items such as sleeping pills, a woolly hat, a pair of brand new boxer shorts and a stuffed reindeer toy - something Martha did not do in the series.

It was 'years' before the police 結局 took Richard's （民事の）告訴s 本気で and six years before they finally 介入するd, he 以前 told?The Times?- something which 長引かせるd the agony for everyone 伴う／関わるd, 含むing his 親族s.?

Throughout the series, Donny is hounded by a woman called Martha (pictured) - played by Jessica Gunning - as she relentlessly calls, messages, and 令状s him, 同様に as stalking him at the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 he 作品, at home and at his comedy gigs

The tale gets progressively darker as each episode passes and as Martha's obsession 強めるs, and later becomes physical

The police told him at the time that unless his stalker became 肉体的に violent, there was little they could do to 解決する the 問題／発行する.?

Richard was 軍隊d to 証明する there was a danger by 記録，記録的な／記録するing his stalker's voicemails and 徹底的に捜すing through them to find instances of her 脅すing him or those の近くに to him.?

But にもかかわらず her 影響する／感情ing his life for years, he has since said that he feels sorry for her, 追加するing that she is a 犠牲者 of a 'failed system'.

He told The 独立した・無所属 at the time: 'I can't 強調 enough how much of a 犠牲者 she is in all this.

'Stalking and いやがらせ is a form of mental illness. It would have been wrong to paint her as a monster, because she's unwell, and the system's failed her.'

He told The 後見人 that because she was not getting the 援助 she needed, 'her 不安定 would just come 負かす／撃墜する the phone at me every day.'

Richard said that the woman, whose real 身元 remains unknown, drove a 'freight train' through his ability to have a normal life and 関係s.??

He has said he still finds it hard to 信用 people and has had 'every therapy going'.?

The show also delves into Richard's 性の 強襲，強姦 and 強姦 years earlier, at the 手渡すs of a comedy 助言者 - however the actor has not 明らかにする／漏らすd any 詳細（に述べる）s about the real Darrien or the circumstances surrounding the 乱用 he 苦しむd.

Although their 遭遇（する） 最初 begins as a friendly 雑談（する）, Martha crosses several 境界s 明らかにするing Donny's past 外傷／ショック

Baby Reindeer delves into Richard's harrowing real-life stalking ordeal and 残虐な 性の 乱用 - and sees the Scottish actor play a fictionalised 見解／翻訳／版 of himself, called Donny Dunn (pictured)

FICTION?

While much of what happened to Richard was true, 詳細（に述べる）s about those 伴う／関わるd were changed to 保護（する）／緊急輸入制限 their 身元s.?

Richard has not 明らかにする／漏らすd the real 指名する and 身元 of Martha meaning it is incredibly hard to find out where she is now.?

'We've gone to such 広大な／多数の／重要な lengths to disguise her to the point that I don't think she would recognise herself,' Richard told GQ about the 描写 of his stalker in Baby Reindeer.?

Richard has said that he kept identifiable 詳細（に述べる）s about the real stalker as he does not see Martha as a villain but rather someone who was very mentally unwell and was not 存在 供給するd the help she needed.

'She needs help, but she's not getting any,' he 以前 told The 後見人.?

The show went to such lengths to 避ける doing impressions of the real people it was based on that actress 足緒 Gunning, who plays Martha, 差し控えるd from delving too much into the real stalker's past.??

One of the major 陰謀（を企てる） points in the show that was different from what happened in reality, appears to be Martha's 有罪の判決.?

Baby Reindeer delves into Richard's harrowing real-life stalking ordeal and 残虐な 性の 乱用 - and sees the Scottish actor play a fictionalised 見解／翻訳／版 of himself, called Donny Dunn

In the show, Martha is 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with, and 嘆願d 有罪の to,?three counts of stalking and いやがらせ and is 宣告，判決d to nine months in 刑務所，拘置所.?Donny is 認めるd a five-year 抑制するing order against Martha and he never sees her again after the 嘆願 審理，公聴会.

However while Richard was indeed 認めるd a 抑制するing order against his stalker in real life, he told The Times that he 'didn't want to throw someone who was that level of mentally unwell in 刑務所，拘置所'.

によれば The 後見人, Richard's stalker was 'still 捕まらないで' around the time that Baby Reindeer debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019.?

And rather than never 審理，公聴会 from her again, the real stalker 悩ますd Richard's friends and family until recently at that point.?

予定 to it 存在 TV, the timeline of events was also 配列し直すd to make for a more cohesive plotline.?