Netflix’s Sweet Bobby actress speaks out amid backlash from viewers over small confusion

An actor in a chilling Netflix documentary has spoken out following interactions with confused fans, admitting her family are 'deeply disturbed'.

Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare follows an extremely 'sickening' decade-long catfishing case involving British woman Kirat Assi who believed she was in a romantic relationship with a man named Bobby, whom she met on Facebook.

What is Netflix's Sweet Bobby about?

The story goes way back to 2009 when the pair, who knew of each other through their shared Sikh community in London, developed a friendship that turned into a serious romantic relationship. Check out the official trailer here:

Now, after her suspicions around Bobby grew after never meeting him for nine whole years and as his abusive behaviour escalated, Kirat hired a private investigator, who traced him to Brighton.

Hoping to finally confront him, Kirat turned up on his doorstep - but when the real Bobby opened the door, he was terrified and confused about the whole situation.

And just the next day, the lies all came tumbling down, as no other than Kirat's cousin, named Simran in the doc, drove down to her house and confessed it had been them acting as Bobby the entire time.

At the end of the film, a number of updates and explainers were provided with the very first being: "Images of Simran have been represented by an actor."

Who plays Simran in Sweet Bobby?

Regardless, that hasn't stopped people tracking down the actress who played Simran, who goes by @barmzgottalent online, and messaging her as if she was the real catfish.

Following an avalanche of messages from viewers who clearly hadn't paid attention to the end credits, the actress, Bhamini Joseph, who goes by Bambi online, took to TikTok to answer all of the internet's glaring questions about Simran.

In the three-minute-long video, she explained: "I'm making a video today to talk about the new Netflix movie, Sweet Bobby, and my role as Simran."

She began by confirming she was not Simran in the doc, adding: "I feel like I have to say that here, because some people still think that I am, but I'm an actor who was hired to portray a character."

Also confirming that she agreed to having her pictures used, Bambi explained that the show's producers contacted her 'a year ago' and asked her 'to send in a bunch of pictures of myself over the last 10 years'.

"They told me that I would be playing the role of a catfisher," she carried on. "So when I was actually picking out pictures, I was thinking, let's go for a more girl next door look which is why, unfortunately, I feel that all my worst photos were used, but that's just subjective."

Opening up about her 'compensation' for the role, the actress continued: "Based on the compensation and based on my previous work as an extra and actress, I assumed that it would be a much smaller production.

"I kind of thought that it would be one of those shows that you watch on TV in a hotel at night because you can't access Netflix."

Bambi also discussed how her friends were reacting to the whole ordeal: "Well, my close friends think it's so funny.

"My parents are very deeply disturbed by my face coming up on their TVs. A lot of their friends and colleagues are concerned about my safety.

"People have stopped me and asked me about it, but it's only really people that are acquaintances. Most people just like to stare, which I don't know if I was going before or if it's just after the show came out, I really can't tell, but I'm definitely a little bit more paranoid."

Admitting she was making 'tongue-in-cheek' videos about the situation online, she explained: "I just feel like it's like a crazy situation that only I could get into.

"I don't know anyone else that could be in this situation, so I'm just making fun of myself online.

"And no means do I mean to make fun of the situation, or the seriousness of what Simran did. I'm just making fun of the fact that I'm being used to show her face, which is just still crazy to me."

Addressing claims she was 'doing it for attention', Bambi responded: "I think there are so many other ways that I could get attention like risking my entire career reputation is not honestly the best way and attention is just a side effect of what I signed up for and agreed to."

She called the situation 'heartbreaking' for Kirat, before revealing: "I think it's so painful because it's like a family situation.

"I have also experienced being catfished so I understand the sinking feeling of everything kind of crashing into the ground, everything you think has just been a lie.

"I feel really awful for everyone that was affected. I'm sorry that this is being broadcasted so publicly and everyone people are leaving horrible comments about the situation."

Bambi concluded: "Just everyone needs to have a bit more compassion for what went on."

Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare is currently available to stream on Netflix.