“This is a true-ish story based on a lie, about the rise and fall of a wellness empire; the culture that built it up and the people who tore it down.”
Is Apple Cider Vinegar based on a true story?
It is based on true events and inspired by The Woman Who Fooled the World, a book written by journalists Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano who reported on the story as it was happening for Melbourne newspaper The Age. That said, Netflix has stressed that some characters and events have been fictionalised. It looks at the rise and fall of a wellness empire, and the ways in which it was based on a lie.
Apple Cider Vinegar cast
Kaitlyn Dever (Dopesick, Unbelievable) will play Belle Gibson, while Alycia Debnam-Carey (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Fear the Walking Dead) will play Milla Blake, a woman who builds a platform promoting the power of food to beat cancer. The Bold Type star Aisha Dee plays Milla’s close friend, who meets Belle and helps her grow her business. Tilda Cobham-Hervey (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, I Am Woman) plays a cancer patient who is drawn in by Milla and Belle’s online presence and promises.
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Also joining the Apple Cider Vinegar cast are Ashley Zukerman (Succession), Mark Coles Smith (Mystery Road: Origin), Susie Porter (Irreverent, Wentworth), Matt Nable (Transfusion, Last King of the Cross), Phoenix Raei (The Night Agent), Chai Hansen (Night Sky, The New Legends of Monkey), Rick Davies (Offspring), Kieran Darcy-Smith (Mr Inbetween), Catherine McClements (Total Control) and Essie Davis (One Day, The Babadook).
Apple Cider Vinegar release date
No release date has been confirmed as of yet, but we’ll update this article as soon as one is announced.
