Kaitlyn Dever stars as Belle Gibson in Netflix 's Apple Cider Vinegar — a stranger-than-fiction tale charting the meteoric rise and spectacular downfall of the shameless scammer who wormed her way into people’s hearts and wallets.

Netflix’s "Apple Cider Vinegar" tells the story of an Australian woman who fakes brain cancer and builds a massive wellness empire. Here’s what Belle Gibson did and how she was caught.

In “Apple Cider Vinegar,” a new Netflix series released on Thursday, Kaitlyn Dever plays Belle Gibson, a real Australian woman who proliferated a scam about overcoming terminal brain cancer through healthy eating.