Piers Morgan has revealed his ordeal of being ‘hounded by a Baby Reindeer-style stalker’.
The former Good Morning Britain presenter, 59, has hit back at accusations he abused and harassed Felicity Jane Lowde, saying they are a ‘complete fantasy’.
Lowde has filed 64 cases against multiple celebrities in the past year, including one against Morgan, according to The Sun.
‘What she was trying to accuse me of was absurd, complete fantasy,’ he has now said, after defending himself in court.
Lowde claimed that Morgan hijacked her brother’s identity, and began bombarding him after his infamous interview with the ‘real Martha’ from Baby Reindeer on his talkshow Uncensored.
Lowde had previously been jailed for six months in 2007 for stalking Rachel North, a survivor from the 2005 London bombings.
Last September, she filed a Central London county court judgement against Morgan and his production company and accused him of ‘abuse, harassment, fraud and dishonesty’.
She claimed he ‘worked with insalubrious associates on a campaign involving stealing my creative work and family history to promote himself as a member of my family’.
She also alleged: ‘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.’
Another bizarre claim she made was that Morgan was ‘sexually obsessed with toilets’.
Hitting back, Morgan 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.’
He won his firm’s case against Lowde last month, who now has to pay him £6,000 in damages, and the case against him personally was thrown out.
However, Morgan said he has ‘no expectation of seeing that money’, adding: ‘She is a harasser, a bit like Baby Reindeer’s.’
He added it was ‘unsettling’ to receive ‘these kind of harassing letters’, as he didn’t know whether it would be a ‘threat’.
The presenter and dad-of-four went on: ‘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.’
He called Lowde a ‘disturbed, unhinged human being’ and questioned whether she would have been taken more seriously if it were a man targeting a woman.
Last year, Morgan sparked controversy after interviewing the ‘real Martha’ from Richard Gadd’s Netflix programme series Baby Reindeer.
Morgan spoke to Fiona Harvey, who is portrayed as having stalked Gadd in the seven-part drama, which is fictionalised but based on a true story.
It follows struggling comedian Donny (played by Gadd) meeting a woman named Martha (played by Jessica Gunning), however, a seemingly friendly encounter quickly turns sinister, as Martha’s obsession grows and she begins waiting outside his house, sending him thousands of emails, and even harassing his parents and turning violent towards his girlfriend.
In the explosive interview, which has more than 15million views online, Morgan grilled Harvey on the messages she’d sent and parts of the award-winning Netflix programme, while she insisted it was ‘a work of fiction, a work of hyperbole’, and said: ‘I wanted to rebut that completely on this show – I am not a stalker, I have not been to jail, I’ve not got injunctions – it is complete nonsense.’
Harvey later spoke out and said she felt ‘used’ by Morgan, telling the Daily Record: ‘I have my own thoughts on it that I’d like to keep to myself but I wouldn’t say I was happy. It was very rapid to try to trip me up. He did it fast-paced to catch me off guard.’
‘It seemed to me that I was set up. I feel a bit used,’ Harvey added.
Meanwhile, Morgan reportedly described the interaction as a ‘sparring match’ between the pair, for which his interviewee claims she was only paid £250, and he claimed she ‘lied quite a lot’.
‘But that doesn’t mean she can’t be a victim here too,’ he added.
Baby Reindeer is available to watch on Netflix.
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