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True Crime with Kendall Rae

Social Media “Health” Guru Fakes Cancer for Profit: The Belle Gibson Story

True Crime with Kendall Rae

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Belle Gibson always had a problem with lying, but she took it to another level when she started posting on social media claiming to have been diagnosed with cancer and only had 4 months left to live. Her success in life and seemingly charming way about her got people hooked on her positive message. These lies soon turned to scams through an app and a cookbook, and she started convincing people to follow her harmful claims in pseudoscience as it “helped” her live longer than she was allegedly supposed to.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to True Crime with Kendall Ray. Thanks so much for joining me today and if you are new then welcome so happy to have you. So today

0:18.1

Boy do I have a story for y'all this week's case as I'm sure you can tell from the title is another

0:24.2

cancer fraud story. Yes there are more people that do this.

0:29.2

Honestly that's one thing that is most shocking to me when covering these types of cases is how many people

0:35.3

actually do this and pull it off for so long. If you've missed my other episodes on people who fake

0:42.0

cancer and sometimes scam people out of thousands of

0:45.2

dollars or just scan them out of their sympathy or use it to get ahead whatever

0:49.3

it may be. I don't think I have told one that is quite on this scale. Maybe Elizabeth Finch comes close, maybe. I don't know, I mean, they're all, all of these stories are just horrific, but this one in particular got so massive and tons of people were scammed.

1:07.1

And when I first started looking into it, I really had no idea how massive this story was,

1:12.2

and I was shocked that I hadn't heard about it before.

1:14.3

But once I started looking more into it and I was down that rabbit hole, man there was no digging out.

1:19.2

Now some of my Australian subscribers may recognize this name. I'm going to be talking about Bell Gibson.

1:26.8

My God, and if you haven't heard of this woman, be prepared to pick your jaw up off the floor

1:31.5

because it is truly a remarkable and disgusting how this woman was able to lie to so many people and pull it off for quite a bit of time.

1:40.4

She was a Australian social media health guru who was actually in the midst of a huge collaboration with Apple when she finally got exposed and thankfully that happened before her audience could grow even bigger than it already was.

1:56.0

I mean, her reach was pretty massive.

1:59.0

And honestly, I just can't believe how long it took for this woman to be exposed how she was able to keep this going for such a long period of time and to grow her audience so big as I've mentioned before I think these types of stories are just so fascinating.

2:14.3

The fact that people are able to lie and lie and lie. I mean, Bell is one of those people who just

2:22.0

when it comes to her lying the limit does not exist she will

2:24.8

just come up with a new lie every day it feels like and honestly I could just

2:28.8

ramble about her and my feelings on her and anger towards her for quite a while but I have a lot to go

2:35.2

over here so we're gonna go ahead and jump in but before I do first I of course want to issue

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