It was a year into their friendship when Chanelle McAuliffe began to suspect Aussie influencer Belle Gibson was lying to her and the thousands of fans who’d been following her journey with terminal cancer.
“It started with small things, like she was going to the solarium and drinking alcohol,” Chanelle tells Woman’s Day. “It wasn’t aligning to what she publicly was selling herself as. And then I realised I’d never seen her sick. Ever.”
Finding out your friend has lied to you is an experience many people would consider a hurtful betrayal. But for Chanelle, it was a matter of literal life or death as the now-convicted fraudster had built a high-profile career out of offering advice on how to cure cancer through diet, exercise and alternative medicine.
“I asked her straight out,
