A woman pictured out with Baby Reindeer star Richard Gadd is a high flying television PR executive who describes him as her ‘best friend’ and ‘one in a million’.
The actor, 35, was photographed walking down his local high street with Molly as the controversy surrounding his shocking Netflix series rumbled on.
Richard was seen looking dejected just days after his alleged real life stalker Fiona Harvey, 58, branded him a ‘psychopath’ in a bombshell interview with Piers Morgan.
Molly, who is a PR manager was wearing dark glasses and casually dressed in jeans, white T shirt and a waistcoat during their outing in north London.
The dark-haired Cardiff University graduate has made no secret of her close friendship with Richard in recent weeks.
A woman pictured out and about with Baby Reindeer star Richard Gadd is a high flying television PR executive who describes him as her ‘best friend’ and ‘one in a million’
The actor, 35, was photographed walking down his local high street with Molly as the controversy surrounding his shocking Netflix series rumbled on
She posted a birthday greeting to him on X, alongside a picture of them together on May 11, saying: ‘Happy birthday to my best friend. Richard Gadd is one in a million and I am really f***ing proud of this special person.’
A month earlier on April 11 she posted another message on X, giving a gushing plug for Baby Reindeer to her 2,150 followers.
Her message said: ‘I cannot recommend this enough. I am so incredibly proud of my friend for this incredible masterpiece he’s so bravely given us.
‘Richard Gadd is a force to be reckoned with and deserves all the accolades and recognition for this. Baby Reindeer is sensational.’
In another message on April 8 responding to a post by the Independent describing the show as ‘something very special’, she wrote: ‘Yes it f***ing is!’
A fourth message 17 days earlier, responding to a post by Netflix plugging the series, said: ‘Very proud of my best friend. Richard is bloody incredible and this show is gonna blow your socks off.’
Gadd was seen cutting a dejected figure just days after his alleged real life stalker Fiona Harvey, 58, branded him a ‘psychopath’ in a bombshell interview with Piers Morgan
Gadd was pictured with Molly soon after appearing on the BAFTA’s red carpet with his co-star Jessica Gunning who played his stalker character Martha in Baby Reindeer
Richard was pictured with Molly soon after appearing on the BAFTA’s red carpet with his co-star Jessica Gunning, who played his stalker character Martha.
He created the seven part series, playing a struggling comedian called Donny Dunn who is a fictionalized version of himself.
The show which claims to be ‘a true story’ features Martha stalking him relentlessly after he and offered her a cup of tea on the house in their first encounter in a London pub while working as a bartender
It alleges Richard was bombarded with 41,000 emails, 350 hours of voice messages, 744 tweets, 48 Facebook messages, and 106 letters during the stalking campaign.
Martha was quickly identified by internet sleuths as Scottish law graduate Fiona Harvey after the series began to be screened last month.
One month after Baby Reindeer aired, she confirmed during her interview with Piers that the hit series was based on her, but she denied ever stalking Richard, sexually assaulting him or attacking his girlfriend.
She also denied ever being arrested by police or going to prison.
Fiona told Piers that the TV show was ‘simply not true’, adding she sent ‘less than ten’ emails to Richard and only ‘one letter’.
During the interview, she referenced a scene in the show where Martha admitted to intimidating Richard’s character and received a nine-month prison sentence.
She said: ‘That is completely untrue, very, very defamatory to me, very career damaging.
‘I wanted to rebut that completely on this show – I am not a stalker, I have not been to jail, I’ve not got injunctions – it is complete nonsense.’
The explosive interview sparked a huge row as viewers branded the TV chat ‘highly irresponsible’ and suggested Fiona Harvey was ‘exploited for sensationalism and poor taste’.
Many viewers said they were left ‘disturbed’ by the interview, branding it a ‘painful’ watch.
But Piers said he believed his show had performed its ‘duty of care’ by supporting her both before and during the show and staying in touch with her since the interview and revealed that Fiona ‘wants an agent’.
He told Lorraine he did not see ‘any sign of anyone who I thought was mentally unwell’, but added that he believes she had ‘an obsessive streak’ and that he ‘didn’t believe everything she said in the interview’.
Piers also criticised the show’s attempts to anonymize Fiona, saying it was ‘disingenuous’ of Gadd to ask fans not to look up the real person behind the character.
He said: ‘I think that is pretty disingenuous as they have used segments of the exact messages she sent so any internet sleuth can put that in and find it on her phone.
‘I think they failed in a duty of care to Fiona Harvey, especially Netflix.’
Responding to criticism over the interview, he said: ‘I felt it was important that she was allowed to have her say as she had already been revealed by the media as the real life Martha but she had no ability to tell her story.’
Viewers previously took to social media to blast Morgan for allegedly ‘exploiting’ Ms Harvey’.
One wrote: ‘It was highly irresponsible to put Fiona Harvey on TV!’
He created the seven part series, playing a struggling comedian called Donny Dunn who is a fictionalized version of himself
Since the release of Baby Reindeer, Fiona has been posting regularly on social media protesting her innocence.
Other alleged stalking victims have since come forward to share their own alleged experiences with Fiona.
Richard himself previously asked people to stop speculating on the real-life identities of the characters from his show.
When asked about people claiming to be the stalker, he said: ‘I can’t confirm or deny anything relating to the real life people who the characters are based on in the show.’
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