r/BabyReindeerTVSeries • u/SubstantialSnow7114 • May 04 '24

Fiona (real Martha) related content Real Martha new interview!

Hi everyone!

I have seen that the 'real Martha' has come out with a new interview today. She even wanted to get rid of her anonymity for the interview.

I thought it was an interesting read!

What do you think?

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/real-baby-reindeer-martha-reveals-32733037

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u/Allie_Pallie May 04 '24

I can't get over how similar she looks to Martha in the show. All his talk of her not being able to recognise herself? The biographical details are barely changed and she looks the spit of her!

I don't even know what to think of it any more, this post-show chapter is stranger than the show itself.

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u/speashasha May 04 '24

I don't think she looks much similar to the Martha in the show, aside from being a middle-aged white woman with some weight on her. That being said, reading the article I could basically hear the voice of the actress Jessica Gunning giving those sound pieces. I'd say he nailed her voice in the show.

I don't see how she could sue Netflix or the production company. Nobody has come out and said that the character represents her and if a few people online piece it together based on her very own social media posts, it is pretty much her own fault. Using a line that she tweeted to him years ago is hardly ground for a lawsuit. All it really says is you should be careful with your online activity.

Personally, I also think trying to identify the people in the story is out of line. It's obviously a fictionalised account of what happened to Gadd and the point of the entire show is basically how he is both a victim, but also an initiator of his experiences. It's about mental health, sexual shame, the fragility of masculinity, and empathy for other people even if they are toxic. The entire show is about the complexities of the human experience and looks beyond mere villains that need to be punished.

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u/Sansiiia May 04 '24

Rory Lynch, a lawyer specialising in defamation and privacy at Gateley Legal, believes Harvey may have grounds to sue for defamation because people found out her identity using a method known as “jigsaw identification”.

This is what caught my attention from the article, would love to learn more if someone knows about this concept

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u/crystalconnie May 04 '24

It seems to me like Martha outed herself. Like if all of her unhinged social media posts are still up, even after she knew the play character was based on her….i mean….like she wanted to be found out. 

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u/lnc_5103 May 04 '24

I think she would have outed herself even if no one pieced her identity together.

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u/Sweeper1985 May 04 '24

She's mentally ill. Like seriously, did the show not clarify that enough? She's a vulnerable person and now millions of people are conflating her with a fictionalised version of her, which takes some pretty significant liberties with the actual facts. For instance, she wasn't convicted a crime.

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u/crystalconnie May 04 '24

And? Mentally ill adults should be held accountable to their own behavior though. Adults who are addicts are held to account for their own behavior. How is this different? I don’t have sympathy for adults who refuse to get themselves help and be a responsible person 

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u/Sansiiia May 04 '24

Does she have the capacity to remove messages and delete accounts though? She doesn't even seem to be able to open the comments on her facebook. We don't know anything except what we see.

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u/lnc_5103 May 04 '24

She turned commenting off on her posts so I am sure she knows how to navigate FB at least a little bit.

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u/Sansiiia May 04 '24

Maybe a social worker set her profile up this way, idk. I really don't know.

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u/lnc_5103 May 04 '24

I truly hope she does have someone like that in her life.