Are the emails in Baby Reindeer actually real?

Baby Reindeer has had us in its grips since its release, with the hit Netflix series racking up 2.6 million views in its first week on the platform and quickly becoming the streamer’s most popular show in over 30 countries. A fictionalised retelling of Richard Gadd’s own very real experiences with a female stalker, Baby Reindeer follows Donny as he unknowingly enters into years of being stalked when he takes pity on a stranger by giving them cup of tea on the house.

Through the series, Donny is inundated with countless calls, texts, Facebook messages and emails from his stalker Martha, with them making up a key element of the show and reinforcing the fact that she’s never far. In reality, Gadd received a shocking 41,071 emails over four years, along with a string of other forms of communication which the Scottish comedian has been very open about.

But how do the Baby Reindeer emails measure up to reality?

Here’s everything to know about whether Martha’s emails in Baby Reindeer were real, as well as how many Facebook messages, tweets and pages of letters Gadd received, with these details having notably been left out of the series.

The exact number of emails, letters, voicemails and tweets Richard Gadd’s stalker sent

In a post captioned “You’ll never believe the hell one cup of tea can cause”, Netflix reveals the extent of the stalking Gadd endured in real life, with the post detailing that his stalker used 4 Facebook accounts to send 46 Facebook messages, 106 pages of letters, 350 hours (!) of voicemails and 744 tweets.

This is all in addition to the staggering 41,071 emails aforementioned, with Netflix having since clarified that the below graphic is vitally missing a 4 in front of it.