Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd on Netflix ‘bunny-boiler’ drama: ‘A lot of this stuff happened to me’

Richard Gadd (Image: Netflix)

Beginning life as a one-man Edinburgh Fringe show based on creator Richard Gadd’s real life story, Baby Reindeer is now bringing its queerness, identity, trauma, shame, validation and gratification to a twist-filled Netflix drama .

Here, Attitude editor-in-chief Cliff Joannou sits down with the Scottish writer and actor to discuss the real-life inspirations behind the limited series, and the importance of speaking out.

Richard Gadd first caught the media’s attention when he stepped on stage during his Edinburgh Fringe Festival show Monkey See Monkey Do in 2016 to reveal he was a sexual assault survivor. At the time, discussions around mental health were barely present, gay people were still unpicking what it meant to grow up with gay shame, and men speaking

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