Can I Tell You a Secret? gives sinister look at real-life horror story

"I know how to hack your account, you know, and your closest family's accounts," a distorted voice can be heard saying in just one of the many messages sent to various women who were stalked online.

One of Hardy's victims, Abby, says: "They know everything. What I'm wearing, who I'm with, what I'm doing."

In 2022, Hardy was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of stalking with intent to cause alarm or distress, two counts of stalking without intent to cause alarm, and breaching a restraining order from 2013.

Lia was another woman who had been targeted by Hardy, who had created several fake accounts and bombarded her with messages across three years.

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"I used to picture in my mind that they have a diagram," Lia says in the clip. "There was me in the middle and then they'd have my family and then they'd have everyone connected... My work friends, my social friends... because at this point I didn't know that there were other women out there that were affected by this."

It took more than a decade to put Hardy behind bars, with Cheshire constabulary alone being contacted about Hardy more than 100 times over 11 years.

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