, which premiered on Netflix on April 11, is based on the experiences of Scottish comedian Richard Gadd, depicting a character named Donny—played by Gadd, who wrote the show and theairing, online sleuths identified the so-called “real Martha” as 58-year-old Scottish woman Fiona Harvey. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in Los Angeles before the U.S.
Harvey alleges that Netflix “intended to inflict injury” upon her and did “literally nothing” to confirm the details of its “a U.K. parliamentary committee in May that the show was “obviously a true story” of the abuse Gadd experienced “at the hands of a convicted stalker” and that Netflix “did take every reasonable precaution in disguising the real-life identities of the people involved in that story.
“Like ‘Martha,’ Harvey is a Scottish lawyer, living in London, twenty years older than Gadd, was accused of stalking a lawyer in a newspaper article, and who bears an uncanny resemblance to ‘Martha,’” the complaint said. “Further, ‘Martha’s’ accent, manner of speaking and cadence, is indistinguishable for Harvey’s.