Netflix’s "Apple Cider Vinegar" tells the story of an Australian woman who fakes brain cancer and builds a massive wellness empire. Here’s what Belle Gibson did and how she was caught.

Early in Netflix’s latest tech-grifter limited series Apple Cider Vinegar, wellness influencer Belle Gibson (Kaitlyn Dever), her voice breathy and earnest, defends herself during an interrogation. She couldn’t possibly be so morally bankrupt as to be a scammer,

The series Apple Cider Vinegar, out on Netflix Feb. 6, follows a wellness guru who pretends to be very unwell in a story that is based on true events. It’s been a decade since it was revealed that the Australian wellness entrepreneur Belle Gibson,