As you may already know, Richard Gadd is a quite popular American actor and comedian, who inspired the hit Netflix series ‘Baby Reindeer.’ This story addresses a traumatic event in the comedian’s life after being disturbingly stalked.
The series addresses the Richard’s real life situation that happened between 2015 and 2018, when the comedian met an older woman who started attending all his shows, showing up at his workplace daily, and even began interfering in the lives of people close to him.
The series reveals that the woman sent him over 40,000 messages and hundreds of hours of audio notes, among other things. This caused significant trauma for the comedian, which he worked through by creating this series.
Richard Gadd, shares the real-life experiences that inspired the Netflix series.
In the video, Richard Gadd talks about how everything that happened with the real stalker who pursued him for years led him to question many things about his own life: sexuality, masculinity, and his position as a mere human in a world that sees him only as a puppet to entertain the masses.
For many, this brief comedy show is a direct passage to understanding a tortured and tormented mind, and although the main purpose of this special is to make people laugh, many couldn’t help but feel their hearts wrench as they listened to it in the actor’s own voice.
If you haven’t watched this Netflix show yet, you still have time to do so and discover a dark story that has been the talk of everyone. In our opinion, it’s remarkable how Richard Gadd managed to transform such a traumatic experience into a great show.
This story was written in spanish by Alan Cruz in Cultura Colectiva.