How Much of ‘Baby Reindeer’ Is Actually True?

Netflix’s wild new hit show Baby Reindeer is based on star Richard Gadd’s real life but how much of it is actually true? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Netflix is show Baby Reindeer's. It's a disturbing true story
based on the real life experiences of the man who wrote, produce, created,
and even starred in it, Richard Gadd. It's about a
personal experience Richard lived through with a stalker. Without giving
away anything, some of it's hard to believe, so how
much of it is factual? He tells the Hollywood Reporter.
It's all emotionally one hundred percent true, if that makes sense.
It's all borrowed from instances that happened to me and

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real people on that. Of course, you can't do the
exact truth for both legal and artistic reasons. You cannot
just copy somebody else's life and name and put it
onto television. We were aware that some characters in it
are vulnerable people, so you don't want to make their
lives more difficult. You can change things to protect yourself
and other people. It's Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd, who
also recently hit social media to ask fans to stop

(00:46):
speculating about who else the show's about, saying they're missing
the points entirely. That one's on Netflix.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
That's direct from Hollywood,