The woman who has been alleged to have inspired the character Martha in hit drama Baby Reindeer has said she will sue its creator and Netflix.

Fiona Harvey told Piers Morgan that the series, in which Martha is shown as a stalker, was "a work of fiction".

She accused Netflix and Scottish comedian Richard Gadd, who wrote and starred in the show, of "lying" in their "defamatory" depiction.

Representatives for Gadd and Netflix have been contacted by the BBC.

"They have billed it as a true story, and so has he, and it's not," Ms Harvey said in the interview. "He is lying and they are lying."

The 58-year-old Scot gave the interview after being identified online by viewers who attempted to find out who Martha was based on, calling it "absolutely horrendous".

In the interview, she accused Gadd of "making money out of my misery".

Afterwards, the Guardian's Stuart Heritage said, external Morgan's interview "reeked of grubby exploitation", while Ryan Coogan wrote in the Independent, external that "you can no more expect him to be sensitive than you can expect a fish to climb a tree".

But Coogan added: "Morgan isn't the issue here - the real problem with this interview is that there's a market for it at all."

Ed Power wrote in The Telegraph, external the "60-minute conversation was less a sparring match between Morgan and Fiona Harvey than a dreary question-and-answer session".

The BBC has asked Morgan for comment.

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