Kaelin's Entertainment Report: Baby Reindeer Creator Breaks His Silence Over Lawsuit

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Caitlin's Entertainer report. He's on the fread show Baby Reindeer.
Star and creator Richard Gadd has responded to Fiona Harvey's
one hundred and seventy million dollar defamation lawsuit against Netflix. Now.
He did admit that the stalker matha did anyone else
watch it other than mere Yeah you did? Okay? Baby

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rein Deer was partly inspired by She's Scottish, by the way,
if you haven't seen it, was partly inspired by this
real life woman. Fiona said he suffered stalking, harassment, abuse
and threats at her hands. He did say Baby Rein Deer,
one of Netflix's top ten shows, is not intended to
portray specific actual facts, which I feel like he needs
to say in a legal setting, but it's a fictionalized

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retelling of his emotional journey through several extremely traumatic real experiences.
He said he met Fiona like you saw on the
show while working at a London pub in twenty fourteen,
and said she often attempted to touch him and inappropriate
and sexual ways. She sent him her panties, she would
go around where he lived, all kinds of stuff that

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we saw in the show. Now, Fiona's lawsuit says the
show destroyed her reputation, her character in her life. She
said she was portrayed as a twice convicted stalker even
though she's never been convicted of a crime like that. Now,
there's another woman that Netflix talked to named Laura Ray,
who said Fiona stalked me too. I was harassed for

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over five years and got the equivalent of a restraining
order against her. Netflix is saying, hey, the show is
substantially true and so you need to drop your lawsuit.
Along with Richard's account, they also talked to like, I
said that woman Laura, and then the manager at the
pub when they met, so I think she probably did
do that. She also said she only sent him eighteen

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tweets and he's like, no, she blew up my phone.
Complex released a fourteen minute AI interview with Eminem and
the bleach blonde younger version of himself. The mature Eminem
rib Slimshady for going up against jow Rule, Moby, Fred Durst,
and Christina Aguilera. When Ai Shady pulls out a vial
of prescription pills starts popping on like candy cracks open

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a beer and the Eminem now the real. Eminem said, Hey,
I've been sober for sixteen years, enjoying life. They even
talked about Drake ozempic MGK and Taylor Swift win Slim
Shady told em you're not effing Taylor Swift. You had
one era that mattered mine and closed things off, admitting
that the slim Shady character came from a sense of
desperation while he was on the toilet taking a poop,

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and he finally is flushing him out, so I guess
he's done with slim Shady. USA gymnastics star Simone Viles
responded to people coming for her about her hair while
riding a bus round pears. This woman is a gold
medalist and we are talking about her hair. She posted
a video while and I thought of you Kiki using
a portable fan to cool down, followed by a photo
that said I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this.

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Next time you want to comment on a black girl's hair,
just don't now. In her point and defense, it's in
the mid nineties in Paris with a forty two percent
humidity and her hair does not matter. Like she is
a decorated gymnast and my favorite thing, this is what
I was referencing earlier. She posted the team after they
you know, took hold the gold and wrote lack of talent,

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lazy Olympic champions. So I guess that's what people had
said about them four years ago. Yeah, yeah, And there
is no lack of talent and they are not lazy.
And everyone who called her out for prioritizing her mental
health ate their words. Yes, that's all I have to say, honey.
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