I heard from the YouTube commoners that real life. Martha Facebook page is full of writings, dislike her. Also, the actress sounds like her.
According to real life Martha, maybe they were taping her at the bar, which is how the actress got her voice inflection and mannerisms so correct ha ha. It’s a little more likely that Gadd has a couple hundred phone messages from her.
I wonder if the Martha character really did spend time in jail? Or maybe that’s dramatic. But in the Piers Morgan interview spoke of the previous stocking charge with smokes screen convoluted legal language. The tactic of a liar.
She was just interviewed by Piers Morgan, and it's weird because he says multiple times that if she had been convicted that there would be a record, but he doesn't confirm or deny if any record actually exists.
Again, Gadd made it clear that the facts of the story aren't necessarily accurate, so her going to jail could be purely to give the story a more cinematic/cathartic ending.
As for the part about the recording in the bar, that's what she said when confronted with the question of "what if Gadd produces recorded phone messages from you?" She's claiming that if he has recordings that they must have been done in the bar.
With respect to the accent and mannerisms, she insists that the accent is way off and that the actress is nothing like her. But it's actually creepy how spot on the portrayal is, only the actress makes her much more likeable. Although people generally aren't super likeable when they're defensive, so it's probable that she was much more sympathetic in those contexts.
It's certainly creating a lot of interesting discourse around what responsibility Gadd even had to protect identities and how obligated he was to be factual and truthful if he was going to make the subject so easily identifiable.
It's quite telling that she's so easily identified while the rapist isn't even though he's part of a very small community. So Gadd took way more precautions to keep him ambiguous than he did her.
She was outed by the "hanging curtains" comment. She made a tweet saying exactly that, and that was so heavily emphasized in the show, so really, he made it incredibly easy to track her down.
Did he owe her ambiguity? Was he legally obligated to hide her? Is there a legal argument that since he didn't hide her identity very well that he's obligated to represent her truthfully?
It's interesting to see exactly where the lines of responsibility and ethics land on this.
