Piers Morgan says he has been hounded by a stalker (Image: Getty)
says he has been hounded by a stalker who has accused him of abuse and harassment – claims he branded a “complete fantasy.”
The presenter, 59, was bombarded with accusations by Felicity Jane Lowde, who was reportedly looking for a big payout. Lowde was previously jailed for six months in 2007 for stalking a survivor of the London Bombings.
Mr Morgan claimed he was targeted by an individual who initiated an unprecedented lawsuit against him and his production company, Insider Productions Ltd.
The accuser levelled charges of “abuse, harassment, fraud, and dishonesty” against Mr Morgan, even claiming that he hijacked her brother’s identity. However, he is not the only celebrity who has faced these claims, as in the past year, Lowde has filed 64 cases against multiple other stars.
Lowde began hounding Mr Morgan , the woman believed to be the real-life inspiration for Richard Gadd’s stalker in the hit Baby Reindeer.
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Felicity Lowde accused Mr Morgan of abuse and harassment in an apparent bid for a payout (Image: Facebook)
Mr Morgan had never met or had any contact with Lowde when she filed a Central London county court judgment against him and his Insider Productions Ltd last September.
The furious TV presenter has now hit back at Lowde, telling : “What she was trying to accuse me of was absurd, complete fantasy.”
By speaking out, Mr. Morgan hopes that “this despicable piece of work will finally be stopped.”
Lowde claimed Mr Morgan “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 said: “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.”
Mr Morgan’s ordeal began shortly after he interviewed the woman believed to be the real-life inspiration for the stalker in Baby Reindeer (Image: X/Piers Morgan)
In another bizarre accusation, Lowde accused Mr Morgan of being sexually obsessed with toilets.
Mr Morgan won his firm’s case against Lowde last month and the one against him personally was thrown out after he defended it online. Lowde was ordered to pay him £6,000 in damages, but he has “no expectation of seeing any of that money”.
“I didn’t want to have to defend it but you have to after being contacted by the court,” he told the publication. “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 declared: “She is a harasser, a bit like Baby Reindeer’s. 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, Mr Morgan said other TV stars and campaigners, including JK Rowling, have also taken action against Lowde.
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Mr Morgan branded Lowde’s accusations a “complete fantasy” (Image: Getty)
The former Good Morning Britain presenter said: “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.”
He continued: “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.”
Mr Morgan is now calling on the courts to stop Lowde from continuing these cases against public figures.
He said Lowde can pursue them by using “fee remission” which is usually granted based on the applicant’s financial circumstances.
Mr Morgan questioned if Lowde’s actions would be taken more seriously if she were a man (Image: PA)
The former Britain’s Got Talent judge 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.”
Mr Morgan said Lowde has been “skillfully abusing” the court process, which in turn is exposing a “weakness in the system”.
Branding her claims “all bull****”, he questioned why Lowde is able to continue, despite doing it multiple times.
“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 said.
He questioned if Lowde’s actions would be taken more seriously if she were a man, adding: “She’s still clearly a disturbed, unhinged human being. It does make 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.”