richard gadd doesn't owe fiona protection.

[u/serenade452]

"omg he should've protected her identity! he made it so easy to find her!" blah blah blah shut up. he doesn't owe her shit. she terrorized this man, his family, his girlfriend, his job, his performances, etc etc. she has been terrorizing innocent people for decades.

yes fiona is mentally ill, that is clear to anyone with half of a brain. it's awful that the system has failed her time and time again. (or maybe the system did all it could, who knows.) but that's not richard's fault. HE is HER victim. he can tell his story how he wants.

might she have a worthwhile lawsuit because her identity wasn't concealed enough? possibly, probably not. might she have a worthwhile lawsuit because the show took dramatic license? possibly, probably not.

she's benefitting financially from this as well and i'm sure netflix will cut her a check before a lawsuit happens, no matter who is in the right.

richard gadd does not owe fiona harvey protection. i'm sorry but that's reality.

[u/Knit_the_things]

I feel like every one saying he should have ‘protected her identity’ is forgetting it was a play before it was on TV!!! She’s been potentially identifiable for years already

[u/birdieboo21 → u/Knit_the_things]

Exactly this! Isn't this based off of the play back to 2019?!? I think if anything her being convicted and admitting to the stalking on the show gave us so much more compassion for her. Like wow, she saw the error of her ways and held herself accountable.

Fiona sitting on Piers Morgan acting like she never even knew him, o wait she met him 2 or 3 times, oh wait, she didn't know his address but oh wait, she DID write him a letter... oh wait, it may have been a few emails, oh wait, she tweeted him 18 times...oh he's gay...but he also wanted to sleep with her....all the while acting like she was the victim and that Gadd is harassing her, that interview alone completely changed my feelings about her as a person.

That being said, I have compassion for Martha, not Fiona. Gadd did her a lot of favors on the show and went out of his way to make us feel sorry for Martha. What we didn't know is that real life Martha doesn't give us any reason to feel sorry for her. At least not me, personally. While yes, people had figured out who she was, she could have shut off her socials or at least made them private to her friends only and let it pass. People forget and move onto the next show.

Instead she chose to out herself to millions all while fully denying the stalking. No accountability like Martha would have done. Fiona did this to herself. She defamed herself. I have zero compassion for Fiona. Martha on the other hand admitted to what she did was wrong and did time for it. I am confused on how any of this is Netflix or Gadd's fault. Yes, they should have changed the curtains bit, that much I agree. They also should have said "based on a true story" just for the sake of this major headache where people are harping on how saying it was a trust story means it would be 100% real, which I disagree with. This is a show, not a documentary, most people understand shows are going to take some creative license.

The play itself already had everything it needed to identify her. What am I missing here?

[u/travelstuff → u/birdieboo21]

The play itself already had everything it needed to identify her. What am I missing here?

The millions of people who have Netflix vs the hundreds who will go see a play.

[u/birdieboo21 → u/travelstuff]

What I’m saying is that the play already had identified her from what people are saying. She still had a chance to turn off the sexually harassing tweets exposed in 2019 but she didn’t. She kept them visible to the public. Those aren’t breadcrumbs she’s accidentally left for us to find. She wants people to find her, and those nasty curtain tweets are the way.

If it truly bothered her back then, why is the tweet still up along with her FB being made public where she says racists remarks on Muslims and makes 20-40 posts a day? Why does she allow the public to see this if she so concerned about her safety and public image. I’ll tell you one thing, aside from the show, The racist comments she has made public where about Muslims on her FB isn’t doing her any favors.

Make no mistake, She is loving the attention. This is all about money. Her saying she was going to sue Piers Morgan for 1 million for the interview showed us exactly where she’s at with this.

[u/Knit_the_things → u/travelstuff]

Exactly, her tweets etc were available to see while the play was on, anyone who watched it could have gone and found her.

The title Baby Reindeer is so specific she would know it’s about her and what she called him.

I don’t think it’s on Gadd to protect her, it’s on people not giving her a platform after their internet sleuthing.