Lily Allen has said that she “doesn’t think Baby Reindeer would have been greenlit if the protagonist was a woman” when speaking about her own experience of harassment.
Hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer sees comedian Richard Gadd’s character Donny Dunn face a relentless campaign of harassment from a woman called Martha.
speaking to The Sunday Times style magazine about the show’s success, singer Lily, 39, suggested she wouldn’t have “landed so massively” if the victim had been a woman.
After years of obsessively following her, Lily’s stalker Alex Gray broke into her home in October 2015 while she and her children were sleeping inside, leading to his conviction and detention under the Mental Health Act in 2016. He later criticized the police for not taking his case. oh really.
“I find it interesting that the baby reindeer landed in such a massive way.” Lily told the publication on Sunday. “I feel like if she had been a female lead she wouldn’t have gotten the green light.”
Lily Allen said she “doesn’t think Baby Reindeer would have been given the green light if the lead was a woman” when speaking about her own experience of harassment to the Sunday Times.
Hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer sees comedian Richard Gadd’s character Donny Dunn face a relentless campaign of harassment from a woman called Martha.
He added: “People won’t be remotely interested in a woman’s story, which is possibly more common than a man’s story.”
Scottish comedian Richard, 34, based the hit limited series on his real life and it quickly became a word-of-mouth sensation.
Throughout the series, Donny is harassed by Martha (Jessica Gunning) as she calls, texts and texts him relentlessly, as well as harassing him at the bar where he works, at his home and at his comedy performances. , all of which begins after he serves her in a London pub while working as a bartender.
The story becomes progressively darker as each episode passes and as Martha’s obsession intensifies, Donny is forced to remember his past trauma involving sexual assault.
Over four and a half years, Richard says he received 41,071 emails, 744 tweets, letters totaling 106 pages, and 350 hours of voicemails from his real stalker.
Lily shares daughters Ethel, seven, and Marnie, five, with her ex-husband Sam Cooper and was in the house with her now ex-boyfriend Meridian Dan when the robbery occurred nine years ago.
The singer later admitted that she was dissatisfied with the police’s work when they tried to pass off Gray’s robbery as a robbery, saying at the time: “The police gassed me.”
“I can’t tell you what his motivations were, but from my perspective, this guy committed this horrendous crime and I believed he would do it again.”
Scottish comedian Richard, 34, based the hit limited series on his real life and it quickly became a word-of-mouth sensation.
Throughout the series, Donny is harassed by a woman named Martha (pictured), played by Jessica Gunning, as she calls, texts and texts him relentlessly, as well as harassing him at the bar where he works. , at home and in his comedy performances.
This week, Lily suggested that in her experience, authorities take men who are victims of harassment more seriously.
She said: “There were a handful of occasions where men I vaguely knew would be surprised at how I felt I had been mistreated by the police because they had had experiences with stalkers and said the police couldn’t have been more helpful. Unlike ‘What women feel when it happens to them is quite disturbing.’
Gray, a paranoid schizophrenic, told police he planned to stick a knife in Lily’s face while robbing her London flat where she and her two children were sleeping.
He mistakenly believed that Lily owed him millions of pounds for stealing lyrics from her songs and that she may have had a part in his father’s death.
He was living with panic after calling the police when he saw a sign saying “I wrote The Fear” in the audience at a show and had security shutters installed in his home.
Lily shares daughters Ethel, seven, and Marnie, five, with ex-husband Sam Cooper (pictured at their 2011 wedding).
But on October 1, 2015, he forgot to lock the door after opening it to place a burnt frying pan outside.
She woke up to the sound of her bedroom door opening and Gray coming in yelling that she was a ‘fucking bitch’ in the early hours of the next morning.
Gray had already grabbed her purse, phone, jewelry, hard drive, keys, a glass vase, and money and hid them somewhere before returning to her room.
The Perth man, then 31, was given an indeterminate hospital order and a restraining order for theft and harassment.