The woman who was allegedly the basis of the “Martha” character in the Netflix hit Baby Reindeer has made good on her promise to sue the streaming service.
Fiona Harvey, who has claimed she inspired “Martha” in the series — while also denying she is the obsessed stalker that Baby Reindeer painted her to be — filed a $50 million lawsuit against Netflix, accusing them of “defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, gross negligence, and violations of Harvey’s right of publicity, arising out of the brutal lies Defendants told about her in the television series, Baby Reindeer.”
Surprisingly, Richard Gadd, the writer and creator of Baby Reindeer and the basis for the series’ “Donny Dunn” character, was not named as a defendant.
In the lawsuit, first reported by TMZ and obtained by Rolling Stone, Harvey claims that…