Belle Gibson, disgraced 'wellness' advocate, facing legal action over cancer claims

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-06/belle-gibson-legal-action-to-be-taken-against-wellness-advocate/7390612

 

 

 

Belle Gibson, disgraced 'wellness' advocate, facing legal action over cancer claims

 

 

 

Disgraced so-called wellness advocate Belle Gibson, who claimed to have cured her own cancer through alternative medicine before admitting she did not have the disease, is facing legal action.

 

 

 

Consumer Affairs Victoria said it was preparing to take Ms Gibson to court following an in-depth investigation into alleged contraventions of Australian consumer law.

 

 

 

Ms Gibson claimed she was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer and told she only had a short time to live.

 

 

 

She built a social media empire around the claim that she cured her illness with nutrition and holistic medicine, launching a smartphone app and a cookbook, — The Whole Pantry — through Penguin publishing.

 

 

 

Ms Gibson admitted in an interview with the Australian Women's Weekly last year that her diagnosis was not real.

 

 

 

Consumer Affairs Minister Jane Garrett said the watchdog would take civil action in the Federal Court against Ms Gibson and her now-defunct company.

 

 

 

"All of those claims made by her round when she suffered the illness, her therapies in respect of that illness and what she did with her own alternative remedies are false and misleading and deceptive," she said.

 

 

 

"We will be seeking financial penalties... also in terms of injunctions to ensure that that conduct is not undertaken again."

 

 

 

Penguin agrees to $30k donation for publishing book

 

 

 

Ms Garrett said publisher Penguin Australia agreed to pay a $30,000 donation to the Victorian Consumer Law Fund after publishing Ms Gibson's book.

 

 

 

The publisher acknowledged that Ms Gibson did not suffer from cancer, had not tried any conventional medical treatments and neither Ms Gibson nor her company donated any large part of profits to charities.

 

 

 

Penguin has now made an undertaking not to publish any claims or statements about a person's medical condition without them being substantiated in writing by a medical practitioner.

 

 

 

It said it will not publish any statement regarding alternative, natural or holistic remedies without a prominent notice that they are not evidence-based, or proven to provide any medical benefit.

 

 

 

Penguin stopped printing The Whole Pantry wholefoods recipe book last year after Gibson's admission.

 

 

 

Consumer Affairs began investigating Ms Gibson in March last year.

 

 

[waterboy 2.0]

 

GREED has many faces....

 

[mushfun]

Haha! That's pretty much what I thought when i saw her face, what would have been a nice smile some how took on a menacing baring of teeth look

[waterboy 2.0]

yep,good old smile by dropping the jaw....

often seen on real estate agents, politicians and psycopaths

 

fake as shit. That girl is an all round disgrace.

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

The bit I don't get is did she dob herself in or was she outted? Everything I read seems to say she outted herself ?

[mushfun]

She may have lied about being cured of cancer but it is true that she is Mel Gibson's Mum and has discovered the secret to eternal youth. She's bringing out a new book and app soon.  Girls got bills like anyone else.

[waterboy 2.0]

lol mushfun

 

Hey Dood I think she attempted to quickly admit to the tip of the iceberg of lies once it was unravelling, and then expect good people to just forgive her and she could go back to business as usual. (cop a small kick up the arse, rather than a bat to the head)

 

I remember a story from her mother and brother (after her claims of abuse...lol...like walking to school) which provides some interesting insight and was an interesting read. May have been in the Herald Sun.

Something similar: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he

 

Edited May 7, 2016 by waterboy 2.0

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It became pretty obvious early on that something was up when she couldn't even answer a simple question when interviewed: "how old are you?"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsw90DY5gEI&feature=youtu.be&t=24m2s

 

Prepare to cringe...

[saylor twift]

full blown sociopath

[etherealdrifter]

she should be made to reimburse every cent she got by.......................................................... working in a sex club dancing poles and getting the blue rinsers money in her carrots.

makes  sense becauseeitherwise we should all burn her

 

[tarenna]

Fuck this is some funny shit. Bless you all for your commentary

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I remember a story from her mother and brother (after her claims of abuse...lol...like walking to school) which provides some interesting insight and was an interesting read. May have been in the Herald Sun.

Something similar: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he

 

So, after her lies were exposed and she blamed her 'rough upbringing' for it all -- that was all lies too?

 

Hahaha, she even publicly claimed her brother is autistic when he isn't, he must be enraged...

  

Edited May 9, 2016 by antonsyd

[waterboy 2.0]

[etherealdrifter]

people like that(see how i didn't say bitch) well, they shoul dbe helped.

across the most amazing acid dmt cannaboninoil trip they could have by saying

"There you go love, have a tea and a bex and a lie down....when yoy wake up with the gremlins will be eating your cancer skin off you and that way you never had it"

is what her guru channel approved monky will say to her.......................that or the anthony bourdain method of eat everything will make you healthy because you heaps pf vegies before maccas was ever coceived

 

 

Edited May 18, 2016 by etherealdrifter
healthy because you heaps pf vegies before maccas was ever coceived

[Francois le Danque]

On 5/18/2016 at 6:30 PM, etherealdrifter said:

.......that or the anthony bourdain method of eat everything will make you healthy because you heaps pf vegies before maccas was ever coceived

 

 

 

...and we can so much eat as much as we like whatever we want and we never get heavy, because of the olive oil