Baby Reindeer ‘stalker’ Fiona Harvey is ‘afraid to buy groceries’ and is ‘being harassed’ by fans of the Netflix show

Alleged Baby Reindeer stalker Fiona Harvey is too scared to go to the supermarket as fans of the Netflix show continue to harass her, her lawyers claim.

The 49-year-old Scot, who claims she is the inspiration behind the Netflix stalking drama, is suing the streaming giant for at least $170 million for defamation and negligence.

Speaking News Nation‘s CUOMO, Harvey’s attorney Richard Roth, argued that Harvey is not a public figure, adding that she felt she had to reveal herself as the real Martha because she was being harassed.

“She has been harassed, stalked, she gets death threats, she is afraid to go grocery shopping and she is not a public figure,” Roth said.

“She’s destroyed, she’s shattered.”

In the show, which is said to be based on the real-life experiences of comedian and writer Richard Gadd, character Martha Scott – played by Jessica Gunning – stalks him after he offers her a free cup of tea in a pub where he works.

Harvey accuses Netflix of “spreading brazen lies,” including that she is a “twice-convicted stalker sentenced to five years in prison” — as the show suggests.

Her lawyers argue that portraying Martha’s character as a convicted felon was defamatory to Harvey.

“When Netflix starts the show, it doesn’t say, ‘This is based on a true story,’ it doesn’t say, ‘This is inspired by a true story,’” Roth explains.

“It says five words, ‘This is a true story,’ so you better be sure it’s true.”

The lawyer continued: ‘Spoiler alert, during the series it emerges that she was convicted of stalking and served four and a half years in prison. Never happened. She was never even arrested.

“And at the end of the series, she pleads guilty to four different charges of harassment and then gets four more misdemeanor convictions. So they portrayed this woman as a two-time convicted felon, even though she has never been arrested for anything.”

Fiona Harvey’s lawyer, Richard Roth, argued that Harvey is not a public figure, adding that she felt she had to reveal herself as the real Martha because she was being harassed.

Roth went on to say that the series made it too easy to identify the woman who inspired Martha

Roth went on to say that the series made it too easy to identify the woman who inspired Martha.

“Make her of another heritage. Give her a different accent,” Roth suggested, before adding, “They didn’t do anything.

“Everything here leads to Fiona Harvey, and it’s very easy to find out who it is.”

Netflix has said it plans to “vigorously defend this case” and adhere to Gadd’s “right to tell his story.”

Speaking earlier to BBC News, Harvey said she was confident Netflix would lose the case, adding: ‘I have no doubt about that. Otherwise we wouldn’t do it. We think we’re going to win.’

Harvey says the show, which stars Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning (pictured), makes false claims about her

The seven-part miniseries starring Richard Gadd is labeled a ‘true story’ by Netflix – yet ‘Martha’ is portrayed as a guilty plea and nine months in prison, which she claims never happened

The lawsuit, filed in California federal court, states: “Defendants told these lies and never stopped because it was a better story than the truth, and better stories made money.

“As a result of the defendants’ lies, malfeasance and completely reckless misconduct, Harvey’s life was ruined.”

The court documents allege that Netflix “did literally nothing” to confirm that the story depicted was true, and states that Harvey “has never been convicted of any crime and has never been to prison.”

Roth, a New York-based attorney representing Harvey, said earlier this month that he has “irrefutable evidence” showing his client has never been convicted of a crime.

After the show first aired, Gadd asked viewers not to speculate about the real people who inspired the series.

He also previously said that Martha’s identity was so well hidden that she wouldn’t recognize herself – but internet sleuths quickly identified Harvey as Martha.

The woman subsequently appeared on Piers Morgan, where she denied the stalking allegations but admitted meeting Gadd several times in Camden, north London.

It was previously exclusively revealed in the Mail that the show’s writer Gadd, who plays himself and based the premise on his own experiences, told makers Clerkenwell Films that his stalker has never been convicted.