The is billed as a “true-ish story based on a lie" and is inspired by a 2017 book, “The Woman Who Fooled the World,” by two investigative journalists, Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, who explored Gibson’s deception.

Netflix's new limited series Apple Cider Vinegar tells the true story of scam artist Belle Gibson, who faked a cancer diagnosis to build her wellness empire. But where is she now?

Star Kaitlyn Dever gives a powerhouse performance in the series as the Australian single mom who fooled the world into believing she was curing herself of cancer with healthy eating while launching a wellness empire.

In 2015, two young Australian reporters named Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano broke the story that would become Netflix's latest true-crime series Apple Cider Vinegar: Belle Gibson, a successful wellness influencer who claimed to have survived terminal brain cancer, was lying the whole time.

The new Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar bears a lot of resemblance to Inventing Anna, the 2022 series about socialite scammer Anna Delvey. Both are Netflix sagas based on true stories about young women who used attention-economy clout (i.

Apple Cider Vinegar is the latest drama to take over Netflix and get the internet talking. The show follows a woman called Belle Gibson (played by Kaitlyn Dever) an influencer who falsely claimed to have cured herself of cancer using alternative therapies.