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How Much of ‘Baby Reindeer’ Is Actually True? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Netflix is show Baby Reindeer's. It's a disturbing true story
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Speaker 2: based on the real life experiences of the man who wrote, produce, created,
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Speaker 2: and even starred in it, Richard Gadd. It's about a
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Speaker 2: personal experience Richard lived through with a stalker. Without giving
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Speaker 2: away anything, some of it's hard to believe, so how
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Speaker 2: much of it is factual? He tells the Hollywood Reporter.
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Speaker 2: It's all emotionally one hundred percent true, if that makes sense.
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Speaker 2: It's all borrowed from instances that happened to me and
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Speaker 2: real people on that. Of course, you can't do the
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Speaker 2: exact truth for both legal and artistic reasons. You cannot
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Speaker 2: just copy somebody else's life and name and put it
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Speaker 2: onto television. We were aware that some characters in it
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Speaker 2: are vulnerable people, so you don't want to make their
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Speaker 2: lives more difficult. You can change things to protect yourself
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Speaker 2: and other people. It's Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd, who
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Speaker 2: also recently hit social media to ask fans to stop
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Speaker 2: speculating about who else the show's about, saying they're missing
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Speaker 2: the points entirely. That one's on Netflix.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,