I'm the real 'Martha' but I didn't do half of what Baby Reindeer accused me of! ... trends now

Baby Reindeer's 'Martha' tonight revealed her real name was Fiona Harvey - but furiously denied stalking comic Richard Gadd and said she would take Netflix to court over the drama.

In a bombshell interview Ms Harvey, 58, said she had only met the comedian three times and when quizzed on the content of some of the messages she admitted sending him called them 'jokey banter'

The Scottish woman went on to say she wanted to 'set the record straight' following the Netflix show's phenomenal global success and trolls contacting her online after it began streaming.

However, she denied sending him 41,000 emails and scores of tweets and claimed instead it was more like just ten messages and one letter sent by post.

In the wide-ranging interview with Piers Morgan, she revealed details of her 'impoverished' upbringing and that she was in a five-year relationship with a male lawyer.

However, she also admitted she uses four phones as 'I like keeping people on separate phones'. 

MailOnline had until now chosen not to name and picture her. But following her appearance with Piers Morgan we have decided to publish her picture. 

The Scottish woman broke her silence in her first ever TV interview with Piers tonight at 8pm.

She said she met Mr Gadd 'two or three times' and said she did call him a 'baby reindeer'.

On being 'outed' within hours as the 'real-life Martha' online, she said: 'On the internet, sleuths tracked me down and hounded me and gave me death threats. So it wasn't really a choice. I was forced into this situation.' 

She said: 'I think he [Mr Gadd] always wanted this to come out.

'I don't think I sent him anything. There may have been a couple of emails, jokey banter, but that is it.'

Asked if she had a message for Richard Gadd if he was watching, she said: 'Leave me alone, please. Get a life, get a proper job. I am horrified at what you've done.'

She said she would 'absolutely' be taking legal action against him and Netflix. 

She admitted tweeting him 18 times, sending fewer than ten emails and sending him one letter but denied messaging him on Facebook.

She said she would happily open up her accounts to prove this.

She also refused leaving him voicemails. 

She denied ever being charged with an offence or going to jail, as the show suggests the character Martha does. 

She added: 'I think he's probably made it up himself.' 

'Why now, why didn't he go to the police at the time?'

She said: 'I think anyone going along and doing this to anybody - I find the behaviour outrageous.' 

Asked if she had watched the drama, she replied: 'Not at all. I've heard about the court scene, about the jail sentences and all this sort of stuff… I haven't watched any of it.'

'You're not curious, too?' Morgan asked.

She replied: 'No, I think I'd be sick. It's taken over enough of my life. I find it quite obscene. I find it horrifying, misogynistic. 

'Some of the death threats have been really terrible online. People phoning me up. You know, it's been absolutely horrendous. I wouldn't give credence to something like that and it's not really my kind of drama.'

She said the interest in her was 'absolutely horrendous'.

She said: 'I couldn't believe he'd done that. And so long after the first meeting, you know, we're talking 10, 12 years ago, really horrendous.' 

Speaking about her childhood, she said it was a 'standard Scottish upbringing' in the 'countryside'.

She said she was 'impoverished' but had a 'middle class upbringing' along with her sister.

Ms Harvey said: 'My mother worked incredibly hard. My parents got divorced when I was nine but she worked like a Trojan.'

The 58-year-old also revealed she was in a five-year relationship with a male lawyer.

Morgan has already faced a backlash from mental health campaigners and survivors of stalking over his 'irresponsible' decision to interview the woman.