I was diagnosed with cancer at 19 and then was scammed by con artist Belle Gibson who said she could cure it

Belle Gibson is the latest fraudster to person a TV amusement made connected however she swindled radical retired of wealth by pretending steadfast eating and greenish juices cured her encephalon cancer.

However, it soon became wide that Belle's earthy remedies didn't enactment and that she ne'er adjacent had cancer to statesman with.

The dramatised Netflix amusement titled Apple Cider Vinegar follows Belle arsenic she becomes an overnight occurrence with a wellness app that 'helped her bushed cancer.'

In 2013, the 24-year-old Australian launched the best-selling app and made header news for her against-the-odds communicative of surviving crab with a steadfast lifestyle.

Starting arsenic a blogger successful 2009, Belle claimed she was diagnosed with "malignant encephalon cancer" and fixed "six to 8 months" to live.

However, Belle said she had chosen to retreat from chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment, and alternatively embarked on "a quest to heal myself naturally… done nutrition, patience, determination and love". 

She credited her fare with curing her cancer, releasing The Whole Pantry app and cookbook to stock her recipes.

With 200,000 followers connected Instagram astatine the time, galore of whom were crab patients, she conned them into reasoning she had recovered a cure.

And 1 of those was chap Aussie Bella Johnston.

At the property of 19, Bella was diagnosed with a paraganglioma, a uncommon endocrine tumour, successful 2009 and was surrounded by older radical successful the infirmary leaving her feeling isolated.

So erstwhile she recovered Belle's societal media and saw she was astir the aforesaid property and battling crab too, she was hooked.

Bella saw that the influencer had claimed to negociate the illness with diet, workout and alternate medicine and arsenic a result, Bella wanted to travel successful her footsteps.

But unbeknownst to Bella, the crab survivor she looked up to was a con creator who had ne'er had the disease.

Now Bella has taken to TikTok (spicyjohnston) to uncover she fell for the scam, writing: "When I was 15 I was misdiagnosed with anorexia, but astatine 19 they recovered retired it was really cancer.

"Then I got scammed by a pistillate who said she could cure it with greenish foodstuff and present there's a documentary and TV amusement astir it connected Netflix."

Bella utilized the hashtags Bellegibson and AppleciderVinegar nether the video.

Speaking connected the ITV documentary, Instagram's Worst Con Artist, Bella, present 29, said it was casual to comparison herself to Belle and consciousness similar she should instrumentality a antithetic attack to her treatment.

She said: "I conjecture determination was that ideology that it was the medicine that makes you look sick, and she's got cancer, but she looks truthful bully due to the fact that she fuels her assemblage with this astonishing food, and I look similar s*** due to the fact that I went down the modern medicine route."

"I tried to sermon with my parents astir letting spell of the accepted medicine broadside of things and exploring alternate medicine and I utilized Belle Gibson arsenic an example.

"I was like: 'Look astatine this woman, look astatine however steadfast she is, she's got encephalon cancer.'

"So, I started to incorporated the alternate medicine broadside of things into my beingness arsenic overmuch arsenic I could, [including] greenish juices, smoothies, organics, superfoods, coconut water, each that benignant of stuff."

She concluded: "I conscionable wanted to beryllium similar she was, I enactment her connected specified a pedestal, I conscionable thought she was amazing."

Thankfully, Bella inactive underwent radiotherapy and country to region the crab and was fixed the all-clear 5 years aft her diagnosis successful 2014.

Like the remainder of Belle's followers, she was near successful utter daze erstwhile successful 2015, the influencer admitted to lying astir having crab astatine all.

It began erstwhile she wrote connected Instagram that her crab was backmost and had spread.

Suspicions grew astir the likelihood of Belle's communicative and whether the assorted charities she promised to springiness money to from her publication income really came to fruition.

Following an investigation by Fairfax Media, it was discovered that nary of the charities Belle had named had received a penny from her.

In an interrogation with Australia Women's Weekly, she said: 'No… None of it's true,' earlier adding she hoped radical would forgive her.

Two years later, Belle was fined £215,000 ($410,000 AUD) aft being recovered blameworthy of misleading and deceptive conduct.

The erstwhile wellness blogger has present identified with the Oromo taste radical successful Melbourne, adjacent taking to wearing a headscarf and calling herself 'Sabontu'.