In Apple Cider Vinegar, Kaitlyn Dever’s Belle comes off as someone quite sure of herself with lines like “I’m not ordinary; to survive, I’m extraordinary. I had to be” and “If the story isn’t working for you anymore, change the story. Change the story, change the world!”

A new Netflix series dramatises the real-life story of Belle Gibson, the Australian wellness influencer who built an empire off the back of a non-existent brain tumour. Helen Coffey sorts reality from