Instagram's Worst Con Artist: Where is cancer faker Belle Gibson now?
A new ITV documentary, Instagram's Worst Con Artist, showing on ITV1 at 9pm on Thursday, 25 April and Thursday, 2 May, aims to dig into Belle Gibson’s story, who tricked her followers into believing she could manage her cancer diagnosis through wellness and lifestyle changes.
It features interviews with friends and family who will be speaking on the record for the first time since it was revealed that her story was all a sham.
It also features Belle’s own voice from her recordings and social media posts where she claimed she had six weeks to live.
Gibson’s storysounds like the plot of a heartbreaking movie. A young, beautiful woman is diagnosed with terminal brain and given four months to live. Worn down by two months of and radiation, she decides to abandon traditional medicine and take matters into her own hands, instead focusing on healthy eating and alternative treatments. Against all odds, she starts to recover. Somehow, her alternative techniques seem to actually work. Miraculously,
