To think that everything Fiona Harvey said in her Piers Morgan interview was a lie? [Edit by MNHQ]

I read a quote from The Law Society from the nineties which said that she had been trying to be taken on as a proper trainee solicitor for many years and had actually been taken on as a trainee solicitor by three different firms but it hadn't worked out. When she was sacked as a trainee from one firm she waged a stalking and hate campaign against her former boss. This was over 25 years ago.

I think you're right that she has never worked but she refers to herself as a law graduate to make it sound like she is a lawyer.

Honestly he embellished so much of the story we don't actually know if he did go to the police?

Ooh thank you I misheard. That's very unkind of her!

What makes you think she is vulnerable? She is capable of having a profession , a home , according to her friends . Mental health illness or not ( and honestly it’s debatable) she has caused harm to people , Gadd is not the first person who had to go to the police because of her .

Haven't watched the Netflix drama - yet - watched a wee snippet of the YouTube thing so I could give my opinion on her accent. Her accent to my ear as a Scot is most definitely West of Scotland / Glasgow. Not Aberdeen, couldn't hear any Aberdeen in that whatsoever. But yes, the accent of someone originally from Scotland who has spent a long timr living in the SE of England.

It wasn’t debated ! But it should !

I haven't watched either the original show or the interview, but I did want to say that it can be really hard to use a real situation in writing and hide the person, especially if they're so extreme as she is.
I was once on a train with someone who knew a well-known writer and he was saying that they could often pick out mutual friends who'd been used without anything being said.
And when I've been writing things for the children there's been a couple of times I thought I disguised someone well and the children have immediately picked up who it is (not them)

She is a narcissist sociopath ! No 2 ways about it !

This would have the potential to lead who knows where. She is clearly unwell and her whole persona appears to be constructed and maintained by her fantasy world view.

No she said it wasn't very flattering that he thought there was a resemblance to the actress. She's been taking pop shots at the actress, criticizing her looks/weight

Her Facebook is something else. She's racist and completely bonkers. She needs serious help.

I've only watched bits of it but have previously seen her Facebook posts, so have got a flavour of how she operates.

She certainly does seem to believe her own truth which clearly has nothing to do with reality. She is unwell and, as others have said, no doubt a dangerous person to meddle with.

I'm trying to understand what did she actually do then? Send him loads of messages etc? But she never assaulted Teri? Never went to prison? Is it debated that she ever sexually abused him?

It harks back to the days of Jeremy Kyle, parading people who have vulnerabilities, mental health issues etc for public entertainment. Very unethical. It was a grim watch and I think it will massively backfire.

@burnoutbabe I get the impression it was agreed beforehand not to mention what she does for a living.

I'm fairly certain she doesn't work. I don't think she is capable of holding down a job.

She says she is a "highly competent lawyer". There is no record of her having ever worked as a lawyer, in England or Scotland.

I don't believe she has ever worked.

‘Do you think her lawyer boyfriend knows he is her boyfriend, if he even exists?’

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@FedUpAndTiredToday exactly. I really hope the laws change as a result of this, and there's more transparency around anything that claims to be based on a true story.

I wont watch the Morgan interview because I think it's pure exploitation of a mentally ill and vulnerable woman. I just hope that she gets some real life help and that nothing more extreme happens to her as a result of all this.

A really unsettling watch, I wish I hadn't seen it but I wanted to make my own mind up. I agree that she is unwell but I think that she would need to acknowledge that for herself and this would mean that the decades she has spent constructing the reality that both helps her and allows her to function would collapse. When I watched the drama I had some empathy for Martha, those shots of her at the bus stop with her face almost blank with loneliness and despair were very sad. Seeing the real "Martha" with her tangled thoughts, suppressed rage and contradictory reasoning was a different matter. To me she seemed dangerous, this exposure will not have helped her and I can see this whole thing running out of control. Piers Morgan has no ethics and the interview should not have gone ahead.

At the very beginning of the first episode, typed on the screen is “This is a true story”. It’s clearly not. This makes me uncomfortable regardless of who she is as a person.

Yes me too - i think she's a pathological liar, and i dont think he should have interviewed her. Her saying she's going to sue everyone... i mean. That interview was a car crash. People are not going to leave her alone now, she's really done herself a disservice.

Completely agree. It's nuts. Why would anyone want to watch Piers Morgan interview someone clearly mentally unwell. It's opportunistic and exploitative. And when so much is going on in the world. It's like the Kate thing, people get sucked up into the drama and forget these are real people.

But people are watching it and then coming on here to say how dreadful it is and why aren't they doing the same to the male abuser. Watching this kind of thing is stalkerish itself. You couldn't pay me to watch PM.

She’s unwell. The kindest thing we could do is actually not watch it.

Agree! Maybe we the audience are actually the vulnerable people here....believing that we are watching something real

Oh get a grip. It’s human nature to be curious about extraordinary situation. This individual has willingly come on tv for a paid interview to belittle a man she most likely abused for years. I agree the hunting her down when she was anonymous was too far but she gone public. People are going to be curious about this case it is not shameful to watch it to learn about what happened & gain and understanding.