The dangerous fallout from Baby Reindeer: should Richard Gadd have been less honest about his abusers?
by The Guardian
The Guardian— The internet is rife with speculation about the real-life stalker and real-life abuser from the Netflix hit. Is this show about exploitation starting to seem uncomfortably careless – even exploitative?Baby Reindeer was only released a little over a week ago, and already it has become a sensation. Richard Gadd’s adaptation of his 2019 Edinburgh festival one-man show, which in turn was a dramatisation of the ordeals he had been through at the hands of a stalker and a powerful abuser respectively,...
Daily Mail—Baby Reindeer sparks police probe after online sleuths wrongly identify theatre director Sean Foley as Richard Gadd's abuser in 'defamatory, abusive and threatening posts'. The seven-part thriller series follows the real-life story of comedian Gadd, who plays himself in the form of struggling Scottish comedian Donny Dunn as he deals with relentless stalker 'Martha'.
BBC News—Baby Reindeer: Richard Gadd asks viewers to stop speculating. The Netflix series depicts the true story of a stalker who harassed Gadd over a number of years.
The Independent—Richard Osman claims ‘everyone’ in industry knows who Baby Reindeer abuser is. ‘Richard Gadd has been very open to people in the industry about who that person was,’ said Osman