Author Richard Osman says “everyone” in the industry knows the identity of the TV writer who abused actor Richard Gadd, the creator and star of Netflix’spodcast that Gadd has been “very open to people in the industry” about who sexually assaulted him.
To say that a show is “Based on a true story” gives writers leeway in adding fiction to the truth of what happened, but to unequivocally declare that a show “is a true story” means the story depicted on screen exactly replicates everything that happened in real life., which has led to them successfully identifying Gadd’s female stalker but falsely identifying the television producer in question.
Osman added that the individual viewers have falsely identified is someone who “has produced Richard Gadd before, but is definitively not the person in any way.”