In 2015, two young Australian reporters named Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano broke the story that would become Netflix's latest true-crime series Apple Cider Vinegar: Belle Gibson, a successful wellness influencer who claimed to have survived terminal brain cancer, was lying the whole time.
The new Australian miniseries, based on Donelly and Toscano's book The Woman Who Fooled the World, is the fictionalized story of Gibson's rise and fall, including the investigation that eventually brought her down. While a pair of fictional reporters are a major part of the show, creator Samantha Strauss also pulled from Gibson's real-life victims to raise the subplot's emotional stakes. Below, read on for everything you need to know about how Donelly and Toscano brought down Gibson in real life, including the woman who inspired one of the show's main characters, Lucy Guthrie.
