PIERS Morgan has been hounded by his own Baby Reindeer stalker after interviewing the Netflix show’s “real-life” Martha.
Felicity Jane Lowde bombarded the TV host with wild accusations of harassment and dishonesty in an apparent bid for a big payout.
Furious Piers last night hit back, saying: “What she was trying to accuse me of was absurd, complete fantasy.”
TV star and journalist Piers, 59, was forced to defend himself in the courts against Felicity Jane Lowde’s crazed conspiracies — and hopes that by speaking out today “this despicable piece of work will finally be stopped”.
Lowde has filed 64 cases against celebrities in the past year, including the bizarre claim that Piers hijacked her brother’s identity.
His ordeal began after he interviewed Fiona Harvey, believed to be the real-life inspiration for a fictional stalker in Netflix hit Baby Reindeer.
The May 2024 interview reached millions worldwide — but put dad-of-four Piers in Lowde’s crosshairs.
Lowde had previously been jailed for six months in 2007 for stalking Rachel North, a survivor of the July 7, 2005 London bombings.
Piers had never met or had contact with Lowde when, last September she filed a Central London county court judgment against him and his Insider Productions Ltd.
In an apparent bid to force Piers into a hefty payout, she accused him of “abuse, harassment, fraud, and dishonesty”.
She claimed Piers “worked with insalubrious associates on a campaign involving stealing my creative work and family history to promote himself as a member of my family”.
This included hijacking her brother’s identity, she claimed.
Lowde claimed wildly: “He is promoting himself as a lost aristocrat to compensate for his humiliations on the world stage after his campaign of stalking and harassment of Harry and Meghan.”
Bizarrely, Lowde accused Piers of being sexually obsessed with toilets.
Piers told The Sun: “It’s absurd, complete fantasy stuff and just ramblings.
“I didn’t want to have to defend it but you have to after being contacted by the court.
“Otherwise it goes through the court process and you can get a judgment against you or your company — which is what she was trying to do.”
Last month Piers won his firm’s case against Lowde.
The one against him personally was thrown out too after he defended it online.
She will now have to pay him £6,000 in damages. But he said: “I’ve no expectation of seeing any of that money, nor is anybody else.
“She is a harasser, a bit like Baby Reindeer’s.”
This is a convicted stalker who harassed a terror-attack survivor. It’s hard to think of anything more despicable.
Piers Morgan
“This could happen to anyone — whether they’re in the public eye or not — at a huge personal cost.”
In his witness statement to the court, Piers revealed that comedians, TV stars and campaigners have also taken action against her.
Others she’s said to have targeted include Harry Potter author JK Rowling. JK declined to comment.
Piers, no stranger to death threats for his fiery views, added: “For anyone in the public eye who gets these kinds of harassing letters, it’s always a bit unsettling.
“You never quite know whether the person is a threat or not.
“Obviously I don’t want to run the risk of an actual threat so you need to be careful with people like this because they’ve clearly got something wrong with them.
“This is a convicted stalker who harassed a terror-attack survivor. It’s hard to think of anything more despicable.
“I’ve got security, but you can’t live like a hermit and let that stuff get in your head.”
She’s abusing the court process quite skillfully, exposing a kind of weakness in the system.
Piers Morgan
Piers is now calling on the courts to prevent her carrying on these endless cases.
He said she can pursue them by using ‘fee remission” often granted based on the applicant’s financial circumstances.
Piers added: “It means the cost to her issuing the claims is effectively nothing.
“The same can’t be said for all the defendants who have to go through the court process then end up paying the costs.
“She’s abusing the court process quite skillfully, exposing a kind of weakness in the system.
“(But) if someone’s doing this so many times to so many people and it’s obvious it’s all bull****, why are they allowing her to do it?
“It’s highly likely the collective expenditure defending ourselves against a total fantasist who’s deliberately abusing the court system is a six-figure sum.”
He questioned would authorities take Lowde’s actions more seriously if she were a man, adding: “The fact she’s targeting so many well-known people suggests she probably isn’t a threat — she just likes being incredibly annoying.
“But she’s still clearly a disturbed, unhinged human being.
“It does makes me wonder if it would be taken more seriously if she was a man targeting a woman.
“I do think there’s a bit of a double standard there.”
Piers’s blockbuster interview with Ms Harvey followed the success of Baby Reindeer, whose creator Richard Gadd also stars as Donny, a character stalked by a fictional woman, Martha Scott (played by Jessica Gunning).
Ms Harvey has launched a £135million lawsuit against Netflix claiming the series falsely depicted her as a convicted criminal who spent time in prison for stalking. Netflix strongly denies this.
In her hour-long chat with Piers, Ms Harvey confirmed she had known Mr Gadd when he worked at London pubs.
But she denied that she had acted like Martha, who sends Mr Gadd’s character 41,000 emails.
