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.

"Apple Cider Vinegar" bills itself as a "true-ish story based on a lie, about the rise and fall of a wellness empire," but centers its focus on a very real conwoman. Belle Gibson, who is portrayed in the series by Kaitlyn Dever,

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.