Apparently, Richard Gadd was relentlessly harassed and stalked by this unnamed lady; similar to Martha does within the present, the stalker started exhibiting up at his stand-up comedy reveals and asserting her presence from the viewers. She watched his home and abused him, and even began concentrating on and harassing Gadd’s dad and mom (one other horrifying circumstance that is depicted in “Child Reindeer”). Gadd says that he obtained 1000’s of emails, lots of of written letters, and countless social media interactions and voicemails from the lady. When Gadd spoke to the police in actual life — yet one more scenario he dramatized for the present — they dismissed his considerations, apparently feeling as if a case the place a girl stalks a person wasn’t severe.
“When a person will get stalked it may be portrayed in movies and tv as a horny factor,” Gadd stated throughout his interview with The Instances UK. “Like a femme fatale who regularly turns into extra sinister. It would not carry as a lot menace of bodily violence, is much less widespread and might be trivialized.”
Not solely that, however Gadd says that he was genuinely anxious that the lady would come after him bodily: “I used to be bodily scared as a result of I did not understand how far she may take it, she may have a knife, however I did suppose how terrifying it could be if she was a tall scary man.”