“This is a true story based on a lie,” are the first words you hear in each episode of Netflix’s new limited series Apple Cider Vinegar. The lie is one told by Belle Gibson, a real-life Australian wellness influencer who built an empire in the 2010s based on the fib that she had cured her terminal brain cancer with healthy eating.

The show, which is billed as a "true-ish story based on a lie" sees Belle steal the idea from Milla Blake, a young woman who really did have cancer, and who had turned to alternat