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.

But it all fell apart when it was revealed that Gibson never had the disease at all.In the Netflix series, Kaitlyn Dever's Belle is ultimately taken down by a pair of reporters thanks to a tip from Belle's former manager Chanelle (Aisha Dee).

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.