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‘Baby Reindeer’ Creator Richard Gadd Backs Netflix’s Effort To Get $170M Suit By Self-Declared Real-Life Martha Dismissed
The Emmy nominated comedian addresses some of Fiona Harvey's lawsuit head on, sidesteps other aspects of the legal action
Baby Reindeer creator and star Richard Gadd isn’t named as a defendant in Fiona Harvey ’s $170 million defamation suit against Netflix over the hit black comedy, but he sure as Hell is backing the streamer in getting the action tossed out. After publicly declaring on Piers Morgan’s UK chat show that Martha was based on her, Harvey hit Netflix with her big bucks lawsuit on June 6, just two months after Baby Reindeer launched on the streamer to become a global sensation. Last week, one of Harvey’s lawyers Richard Roth was on Piers Morgan’s YouTube show to drill into a June 16 piece in the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sunday Times that Gadd had “expressed concerns” to Netflix about the on-screen decree.
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