Part of the issue with I, Claudius is that, since Graves was trying to push for a revolutionary new reading of the figure of Claudius as a quite capable and shrewd player in Roman politics, not the bumbling idiot that Suetonius and Seneca paint him as, he's quite willing to believe late sources that attest to Claudius' ups (granted, from the Flavians on Claudius was held as being something of a model emperor) as well as ignore or explain away the evidence that other sources give that paints Claudius negatively.
Graves was also very willing to take Suetonius (who admits that most of what he's writing is gossip and almost certainly has no basis in truth) at face value for plot points. Graves was also perfectly willing to admit that a great deal of his material is from inferior late sources that have pretty much no idea what they're talking about and are obviously fabricating things or misunderstanding them greatly, but he kept it in because it makes for a good story and reinforces the atmosphere of plotting and machination. Graves addressed criticism from other classicists that he had read over Suetonius and Tacitus, run them together, and made pretty much everything else up by pointing out that pretty much every actual event is attested somewhere in the record. The short version is that in terms of actual events taking place in the book, really nothing is fabricated. There was a question last month very much like this one, that should answer most, if not all, of your questions.
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