Bad Influencer
Monday 19 July at 9:30pm
Bad Influencer will unlock the shocking rise and fall of Belle Gibson, one of Instagram’s first super-influencers.
By 23, wellness guru Belle Gibson had cultivated an adoring global following online with the story that she had successfully treated her own terminal cancer by eating a plant based diet and using alternative natural therapies. But there was one problem with Belle’s story: she had never had cancer.
The film lifts the lid on one of social media’s great mysteries: who was the real Belle Gibson – an ingenious con artist or damaged young woman trapped in a lie?