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Any one else watched it?

Binged it over a couple of days. I'm not sure what to think.

Proper enjoyed the series (not so much the real case).
She now claims to be adopted Ethiopian apparently.

I'm halfway through. God I hate cancer grifters so it's giving me the rage.

I proper binged it, I thought it was brilliant. There are some great podcasts to get a proper background on Belle.

I binged watched it and enjoyed it well enough. Although enjoyed definitely not the right word.

Have to say I felt some degree of sympathy for Netflix Belle at times. Less so for real Belle who didn't pay the fines but was apparently found to have spent 10s of thousands of $ on clothes and make up over the same time period. No remorse.

I binged it too, it was easy to watch. I love a story about lies, manipulation and being found out. Reminded me of Reinventing Anna. What did social media do to young female narcissists in the 2010s? I watched the interview with Belle Gibson too, the lying upon lying was kind of incredible to watch.
What did people think about the fictionalised elements? I am not sure why they showed her taking cocaine when there's no evidence she did, however I understand why they created Milla out of a few different cancer bloggers.

I am half way through this right now.

I have had to have a break as I found it very triggering on various aspects.

I don't think I have ever disliked a person right from the get go as I do in this case. I doubt I will change my view as the series progresses.

Having been in Melbourne when the news broke, I enjoyed seeing the story come to life on screen, including some familiar backdrops..

She is very low profile these days. Clive is too but was spotted living elsewhere, and out with another woman. I never understood his motives for doing what he did.

It’s fairly obvious what his motives are in the Netflix show- he’s very strongly bonded to Belle’s son and probably trapped in the kind of abusive relationship dynamic where you think it’ll be so much worse if you make an enemy of the other person by leaving. He’s absolutely complicit in her lies though, he had to be.

I think this was fictionalised due to not much being known about him.

I’d be interested to know the real Clive’s motivations too, personally I think he was much more complicit in it all but who really knows.

I’m glad her son has been able to keep a low profile and I hope he’s doing well.

I binged it and loved it.
He was bonded to the son and couldn't see how he could look after him without her. Is what I took from it.
Very sad story all around.

I read the book a while back and enjoyed the show.

Right, I think the Clive/Oliver thing is the Netflix writer's spin on it, in reality it's all a bit of a mystery; he's never been interviewed, neither of them have a social media profile, even people like Chanelle who knew them didn't have much insight into the relationship.

No spoilers below for the ending, only things that are mentioned very early on...

Absolutely horrified by the thought of the girl who needed to lose her whole arm (shoulder and all in real life), didn't want to do this (understandable as finding this out would be so traumatic) and then everything that happened to her after. I fell down a Google rabbit hole about her.

On the podcast I listened to she really did go to the ‘real’ Milla’s funereal (Jess Ainscroft) and sob loudly throughout and invite herself to the wake, according to people they interviewed.

I've watched 3 episodes and sm enjoying it. It is similar to Inventing Anna and The Dropout. So far I'm disliking the Milla character more for claiming her juice/enema regime is curing her cancer, I understand her desperation but to be pushing that to others is awful. I'm not clear whether Belle is claiming her 'cancer' was cured by her healthy eating.

I think Jess was a victim in some way too tbh. It's infuriating she promoted it irl, but these things can be cult like and any issue eith your health is your fault because you had juice 10 minutes too late once

I recently watched a documentary about the real Belle Gibson, and I'm enjoying this series.

There is a similar story about a woman called Elizabeth Finch who was a writer for Grey's Anatomy. There is a documentary about her called Anatomy of Lies, well worth watching.

What I find hard to believe with these people is how nobody thought to check out the facts before promoting them and their stories. Publishers, tech companies, TV studios all just went along with things.

The problem is that when they finally thought about it, they were too afraid to blow it up because what if she really had it. No one had any proof either way

I enjoyed it, but it gave me epic rage about people who prey on the vulnerable and desparate

Oh my God,I thought that was dramatic licence for the series !!

It was well done, I'd seen the documentary a while back.

I listened to The Scmanda podcast a while ago about another wellness influencer who lied. I don't know why I'm so drawn to these kinds of stories, I'm fascinated! I also loved open.spotify.com/show/2XDmYuGRP1bq2AxMRsFzOt?si=EVT5W-I5T6SKJpfS55oDZw the Bad Blood podcast Elizabeth Holmes and the theranos debacle.

Nope, people reported that she was ‘absolutely distraught’ throughout the service and lots of Jess’s inner circle were very surprised she flew in to attend as they were really only ‘online friends’.

The ‘fit’ at her son’s birthday party happened too. It was this performance that prompted one of her friends to urge the publishers of TWP to check her story.

Bloody hell,the fit was FORTY minutes, that's proper determination to keep that up for so long!

Just finished bingeing it! Fascinating, almost incredible whate she did - the fit and the funeral as others have mentioned.

Did Joe really loose his wife and daughter to the charlatans?- Heartbreaking if so. And the child with the brain tumour. God.

I'm also enormously intrigued re Clive's relationship with her. From my research he's never spoken to anyone. Was he really 40 to her 23ish when they got together? (And not previously married?) I suspect Netflix have constructed the story re his attachment to her son (though not impossible it's true).

I hope her son is doing ok. Hard not to think her behaviour and health dramas wouldn't have had a bad effect...

@colouringindoors Milla's character was based on real life influencer Jess Ainscough, she and her mother did both die from cancer in a short period, having tried to cure it with a juicing method. Jess' mum had breast cancer, not bowel like Milla's mum in the show.