‘Baby Reindeer’ real-life Martha claims how she really met Richard Gadd — and it wasn’t with free tea

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“Baby Reindeer” did her first television interview to speak out against the alleged inaccuracies of the hit Netflix series. Fiona Harvey, 58, appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” and broke her silence on being the supposed inspiration for the unhinged lead character (played by Jessica Gunning) in Richard Gadd’s show.

Harvey told Piers Morgan that she never stalked Gadd, 34, and slammed the series — which she still hasn’t seen — for being “completely untrue.” She claimed that her first encounter with Gadd didn’t happen as it was shown between Martha and Gadd’s character, Donny, on the show.According to Harvey, Gadd did not offer her a cup of tea after she walked into the pub where he worked when they met. “That’s not correct,” she said. “I was in for a meal with a drink of lemonade, and I was very, very hungry.

I’m diabetic, so, very hungry. So that’s true.” Harvey claimed that Gadd spoke to her first in the pub.“He interrupted a conversation … he said, ‘Oh, you’re Scottish,’ and basically commandeered the conversation,” she alleged. “You know, I was talking to somebody.

It’s pretty rich. So he seemed to be obsessed with me from that moment onwards.”She also said about Gadd, “I got the impression that he was all out for himself. [He] wanted to sort of control that bar.