Is Apple Cider Vinegar based on a true story? Here who is real and who is fictional, what is real and what is made up, in the new Netflix show.

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.

Following the wildly popular series Inventing Anna, which was based on infamous "socialite" scammer Ana Delvey, Netflix has dropped another binge-worthy, scam-centered series: Apple Cider Vinegar. The new six-episode drama is based on Australian influencer Belle Gibson's bombshell revelation that she lied about having cancer.

She's the Australian wellness influencer who hoodwinked thousands through false claims that she'd cured her terminal brain cancer through healthy eating and now Belle Gibson is the latest female fraudster to be given the Netflix treatment in the streamer's newest limited series,

I remember a suffocating, choking feeling and then not much else.” A heartbreaking diagnosis, to be sure, and also a complete lie — because Gibson, 33, was in fact never diagnosed with terminal brain cancer,