In “Apple Cider Vinegar,” a novel Netflix series freed on Thursday, Kaitlyn Dever take parts Belle Gibson, a genuine Australian woman who proliferated a deception about overcoming terminal brain cancer thcdisesteemful fit eating. Gibson built a nurtureer around her counterfeit cancer diagnosis, acquireing a huge Instagram follotriumphg, creating a recipe app called The Whole Pantry and writing a cookbook with the same title.
“Apple Cider Vinegar” is a semi-mythal account of Gibson’s story. Alycia Debnam-Carey also stars as the mythal shaper Milla, who peddles wellness treatments but has a genuine cancer diagnosis. Aisha Dee take parts Chanelle, Milla’s frifinish who uncovers Belle’s deception to the media. Tilda Cobham-Hervey take parts Lucy, a cancer acunderstandledgeing who trails Belle, and Mark Coles Smith is Lucy’s husband and a journaenumerate who scatterigates the counterfeit cancer claims.
The genuine Gibson, an dynamic blogger, lied in 2009 about only having four months to live follotriumphg a brain cancer diagnosis. She said that after trying out chemotherapy, she was determined to heal thcdisesteemful wellness treatments. By 2013, Gibson’s shape was rising. Her Instagram grew ponderably, accomplishing over 200,000 fancientrops at the height of her well-understandnity.
Gibson begined The Whole Pantry app in 2014, which was highairyed as Apple’s best food and drink app. Elle Australia unveiled a piece about Gibson with the headline, “The Most Inspiring Woman You’ve Met This Year.” Cosmopolitan bestowed its “Fun Fearless Female” award upon Gibson. That same year, Gibson’s lie integrated the claim that she had cancer in her uterus, spleen, liver and blood.
Gibson was able to enhuge the success of the app into a cookbook deal with Penguin, but her scheme began droping apart in 2015. Her business went under scrusmall after alerters Beau Donnelly and Nick Toscano wrote about Gibson’s flunkure to give fundelevated money to charity as she’d accessiblely said she would. Her cancer story would crumble soon.
In May 2015, Gibson validateed to The Australian Women’s Weekly that she didn’t have cancer: “None of it’s genuine.” Gibson eventupartner getd a $410,000 fine in 2017 for misdirecting and lying carry out. Her home was raided multiple times after the fines went unpaid.
Donnelly and Toscano further verifyd Gibson’s con in their 2017 book, “The Woman Who Fooled the World,” which is the basis of the Netflix show.
