In a 21-page document filed to a California court on Monday, Gadd emphasised the series was a “dramatic work”.
He wrote: “It is not a documentary or an attempt at realism. While the Series is based on my life and real-life events and is, at its core, emotionally true, it is not a beat-by-beat recounting of the events and emotions I experienced as they transpired. It is fictionalized, and is not intended to portray actual facts.”
“Although these stage productions were emotionally true and based on real events in my life, they dramatized people, places, things, and events to tell a story,” Gadd wrote in the filing. “I did not write the Series as a representation of actual facts about any real person, including Fiona Harvey … Martha Scott is not Fiona Harvey.”
He also outlined the effect of Harvey’s actions towards him, claiming she followed him around London.
“The cumulative effect of all of Harvey’s actions was enormous,” he wrote. “It was exhausting and extremely upsetting to deal with her constant personal interactions in the Hawley Arms, her following me around London including near where I lived and her relentless and deeply unpleasant communications.”