Archive

Lifestyle Guru Lied About Having Cancer

SICK IN THE HEAD

Said she naturally cured it.

Australian wellness guru Belle Gibson has admitted that many of her claims—including ones about curing herself naturally from terminal brain cancer—are fake. In an interview with the Australian Women's Weekly, Gibson said: "No … None of it's true. I am still jumping between what I think I know and what is reality. I have lived it and I'm not really there yet." Gibson blamed her lies, which had come under scurtiny in recent months in part due to false statements about charitable donations, on a rough childhood.

Read it at The Age

Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.