Australian blogger who claimed natural remedies cured her cancer admits: 'None of it is true'

Belle Gibson, the disgraced Australian “wellness blogger” who faked terminal cancer and claimed she was cured using natural remedies, faces legal action and penalties of more than £500,000 for profiting from her elaborate global scam. The state of Victoria’s consumer watchdog launched action in Australia’s federal court against the 24-year-old over her claim that she overcame brain cancer without resorting to conventional medicine – a claim she used to promote The Whole Pantry, her internationally successful phone app and cookbook. Gibson, who built up a huge social media following, had promised to give some of her profits from her wellness empire to charity but it emerged that no charities had ever received any donations.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/06/australian-blogger-who-claimed-natural-remedies-cured-her-cancer/

What a deceitful bitch! Hope she's thrown in prison

MAD COW that she is...

That story's been unfolding slowly over the past several months over here..

I have no problem with people trying an alternative treatment for cancer - it's their cancer and it's their decision.
But to make up a story, get other people's hopes up and then be found to be lying....?
She's a nasty piece for work.

EVERY purveyor or spruiker of "alternative" therapies who promises a "cure" for cancer or any terminal illness, or that "homeopathic vaccines" will somehow work, are liars and frauds; only in it for the money...

AND should be prosecuted as such..

Not all alternative treatments claim to "cure" some claim to alleviate symptoms.

Beautiful haunting voice.
Not many people can capture the mood of the song and she did it ever so well.

Wrong thread Didge lol

She remains unrepentant, she should be sent to and remain in custody for a long time

Miffs2 wrote:She remains unrepentant, she should be sent to and remain in custody for a long time

Totally agree

eddie wrote:

Miffs2 wrote:She remains unrepentant, she should be sent to and remain in custody for a long time

Totally agree

What possessed the evil bitch? My friend died of brain cancer and the thought that someone would do this knocks me sick.

Miffs2 wrote:

eddie wrote:

Miffs2 wrote:She remains unrepentant, she should be sent to and remain in custody for a long time

Totally agree

What possessed the evil bitch? My friend died of brain cancer and the thought that someone would do this knocks me sick.

I know exactly how you feel.
She makes a mockery of cancer-sufferers and their hopes.

She's a pure nasty bitch.

eddie wrote:

Miffs2 wrote:
What possessed the evil bitch? My friend died of brain cancer and the thought that someone would do this knocks me sick.

I know exactly how you feel.
She makes a mockery of cancer-sufferers and their hopes.

She's a pure nasty bitch.

She is. But she is not through her life yet, she may live to regret her behaviour.

good point

eddie wrote:
Not all alternative treatments claim to "cure" some claim to alleviate symptoms.

THE POINT of my statement hinges on the word promise in there, edds :

Alternative or natural therapists can offer up their treatments as a possible panacea against the signs, symptoms and effects of cancers;

Sufferers are free to try different treatments to possibly help them fight cancers, or to relieve pain and other symptoms..


HOWEVER, if an alternative therapist makes wild and unsubstantiated claims - or worse, when they claim they can replace conventional or prescribed treatments, and that their clients don't need any other help - then that therapist is crossing over into committing outright fraud...

While noting at the same time, that in this case it isn't a crooked therapist making any such claims anyway -- but a fraudster claiming that she had been cured of (non-existing) cancer through 'alternative therapies', for the sole purpose of making money...

Yes I agree with you. No false promises should ever be made, and that includes doctors too.

Miffs2 wrote:

eddie wrote:

Totally agree

What possessed the evil bitch? My friend died of brain cancer and the thought that someone would do this knocks me sick.

Holistic therapies have their place, I believe. Here in England, one of our biggest cancer hospitals runs a successful holistic unit and with great results for alleviating stress and anxiety, and helping people relax etc. It does some wonderful work and I wish that all NHS hospitals offered this.

Agree HT, but this blogger behaved appallingly.