What is fact and what is fiction in Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar?

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Apple Cider Vinegar, a new six-part series released on Netflix, charts the true story of the young influencer who tricked the world into believing she’d cured her terminal brain cancer through diet and alternative therapies. The Whole Pantry, which prominently charted Gibson’s “cancer journey” in the introduction, was published in autumn 2014 and had sold 16,000 copies by the end of the year. Several years before Gibson started her business, another attractive young Australian woman, Jess Ainscough, started blogging about her cancer “recovery” journey using alternative therapies under the name The Wellness Warrior. These causes included the Schwarz family, to whom Gibson had pledged “100 per cent” of money from app downloads for one week, to go towards their son’s inoperable brain cancer treatment.