In Apple Cider Vinegar, Hek is the PR crisis manager Belle hires after her fraud is exposed. In real life, Belle Gibson was helped by crisis manager Alex Twomey (now known as Titus O'Reily), although he worked pro bono — and doesn't appear to have anything else in common with the fictional character Hek.

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.

While social media’s relationship with the wellness industry is commonplace at this point, Apple Cider Vinegar situates itself in the early 2010s, at a time where influencers were just beginning to realize the type of career heights they could attain just by telling heightened versions of their own stories online.

Apple Cider Vinegar, a new six-part series released on Netflix, charts the true story of the young influencer who tricked the world into believing she’d cured her terminal brain cancer through diet and alternative therapies.

When Netflix's "true-ish" series Apple Cider Vinegar opened with Belle Gibson staring defiantly into the camera declaring "this is a true story based on a lie," they weren't kidding. The six-part series dives headfirst into one of Australia's most shocking deceptions,

Influencer Belle Gibson has been portrayed in hit Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar as details of her cancer scam emerged, yet there were parts of her story that were cut from the show

In Netflix series "Apple Cider Vinegar," Kaitlyn Dever portrays Belle Gibson, who claimed she overcame terminal brain cancer through healthy eating.

Apple cider vinegar is more popular than ever. Before you start drinking it, keep these potential benefits and risks in mind.

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Don't worry — there's a cure for that! In the recent Netflix miniseries, "Apple Cider Vinegar," we see exactly how easy it is for wellness influencers to spread dangerous rhetoric . . . or just straight-up lie.