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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is fascinating, but go get articles about her because this is a fictionalized version of what happened. It’s wild. I want to know what’s going on with the boyfriend and the son now.  [/quote]

It seems like much of it was accurate but they grossly exaggerated her online following and other minor details such as her relationship with the whistle blower.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/netflix-apple-cider-vinegar-true-story-belle-gibson-b2697399.html#

If you like this show you might want to watch Scamanda - US version of a sociopathic woman conning thousands of people (an mega church where she was active, friends and online blog followers) into believing she had cancer and manipulating them into donating many thousands  to her medical bills. She was also very pretty and superficially likable. [/quote]

I liked the Scamanda podcast and can't wait to watch the show!

I think they are clear that ACV is fictionalized. It's so stylized that I think it helps convey that it's not 100% fact-based. 
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Yes that show is well done so far.

Did you read the linked article? It
Sounds like secondary characters were fictionalized but not so much the main character. The writers are journalists so they cautious with qualifying  claims.

“Adapted from the book The Woman Who Fooled The World – penned by the two journalists, Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, who originally broke the story in 2015 – Apple Cider Vinegar is brought to life by an all-star cast (Unbelievable’s Kaitlyn Dever stars, alongside The Bold Type’s Aisha Dee and The Babadook’s Essie Davis). The show purports to be “inspired by a true story”, but with the caveat that “certain characters and events have been created or fictionalised”. So, just how much is based on fact?

[b]In the case of Belle Gibson herself, the vast majority of what we see on screen really did happen.[/b] Gibson was born in Tasmania on 8 October 1991 (though she even lied consistently about this, telling people that she was three years older), and her upbringing remains shrouded in mystery during various periods. She never knew her father; her mother, divorcee Natalie Dal-Bello, settled in Adelaide and remarried in 2012 after moving the family around the southeastern states of Australia for several years. She and her daughter are now estranged.”

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