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Baby Reindeer star reveals ‘life took a dark turn’ amid 10-year stalking ordeal

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When Baby Reindeer first hit our screens, it’s safe to say that the chilling Netflix series didn’t hold any punches as it followed the ordeal of one well intentioned stranger after his simple act of kindness led to a sustained campaign of stalking and harassment.

Split across seven episodes in total, the show followed the life of Donny, played by show creator Richard Gadd and his stalker Martha, portrayed by Jessica Gunning, who became suffocatingly obsessed with him after he innocently bought her a cup of coffee at his place of work.

Yet while the series is an intense but captivating watch, it is also underpinned by one dark truth in particular: the same thing actually happened to Richard, when a stalker dominated his life for the best part of ten years.

Ahead of the show’s launch, Scottish comedian Richard, took part in a special Q&A session where revealed that he had made the decision to revisit his ordeal in a fictionalised format to help him find some kind of “catharsis.” He explained: “Back in 2016, I did a show called Monkey See, Monkey Do, which explored some sort of dramatic things that happened in my life and I got a great deal of catharsis from it. “There was a period in my life where I thought my life was going so wrong so badly that I could no longer be the guy that went on stage with a silly hat, telling stupid jokes.

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