A woman who is believed to be the real-life stalker at the center of the Netflix crime miniseries "Baby Reindeer" says she is unhappy with the hit show.

The new series, created by Richard Gadd based on his own stalking experiences, was the inspiration for Martha, played by actress Jessica Gunning, a woman told the Daily Mail in an interview. She told the magazine, whose identity is being withheld,

that she has received "death threats and abuse from supporters of (creator) Richard Gadd."

She also said she is considering legal action against Gadd.

The seven-episode show is based on the Scottish comedian's real-life experience of being stalked by an acquaintance who sent her more than 40,000 emails and 350 hours of voicemails over a four-year period. Gad wrote the series and appeared as a fictional character named Donnie Dunn. 7]

According to the Mail, the unnamed woman "denied being a stalker" and called out Baby Reindeer for "bullying older women on TV for fame and fortune."

The show was also based on the real-life experience of a woman who was stalked by a man named Gadd.

Gad did not give details about the identity of the real-life Martha, and in an interview stated that the situation was "resolved."

The showrunner and actor also said that he and Netflix went to "great lengths" to disguise the real woman's identity.

However, the woman who allegedly inspired Martha said there are similarities between herself and the character, including age, previous occupation, and nationality. She also claimed that certain details of the series, such as the "curtain" innuendos in the show's early episodes, were taken from real life.

"He's now stalking me with baby reindeer. I'm the victim. He wrote a bloody show about me," she claimed about Gad.

She later added, "If he wanted me to be properly anonymous, he could have."

In the weeks after "Baby Reindeer" premiered on Netflix, social media was filled with speculation about the real lives of the show's characters. Some viewers began falsely accusing Martha and the inspiration behind the man Tom Goodman-Hill played on the show, Darien, who sexually assaults Donnie, of being a person.

After theater director Sean Foley was falsely accused of being Darien's counterpart in real life, he posted a statement on X that police were investigating "defamatory abusive and threatening posts" against him.

In response to Foley's post, Gad issued a statement on his Instagram Stories. 'People I love, work with, and respect (including Sean Foley) are being unfairly implicated in speculation,' Gad wrote in the now-overdue post. 'Please don't speculate about who the real people are. That is not the point of our show."

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Gunning has also spoken out about the speculation; in an interview with Dazed, the actress emphasized that Gad and Netflix took "huge steps" to protect the identity of the real person who inspired the series.

She said, "I think it's really sad if that's happening because they obviously didn't watch the show the right way and didn't understand the message of the show."

Gunning continued, "That is definitely not our intention. We took enormous measures to intentionally not identify anyone, and Netflix and Richard really didn't want that to happen. So I think it's a shame. I don't think it's a bad thing because a lot of people are fascinated by true stories now, but I wish they would think about the individual and not do that."