A note about Steve Jobs - he rejected conventional treatment in favour of alternative treatment. When he went for a second opinion several months later, the doctor told him he could have saved his life if he saw him all those months ago. Jobs was a know it all prick who shortened his own life through sheer arrogance.

The 60 minutes interview also revealed that Belle Gibson "befriended" a family whose son had cancer and allegedly used details of his story to use for her own story. Really awful lady.

Cancer survivor here. At the doctor's office where I received my chemo, I had a really sweet, experienced nurse who did wonders to ease my fears. She put her arm around me and reassured me that I was in good hands. That small gesture alone did me a lot of good. She repeatedly emphasized, throughout my chemo, to listen to the doctor and the cancer team, and ONLY them. She said, "I want you to be aware of this, so that you're not blindsided: you're gonna have well-meaning people coming out of the woodwork recommending all kinds of stuff. This miracle fruit, or that supplement, some supposed superfood, or some bizarre exercises... it'll run the gamut. DON'T LISTEN TO ANY OF IT. Listen to us, your team, and us only." And lo and behold, it happened exactly like she said.

Never heard of a "health guru" that isn't a scammer or fraud.

Asking the audience "why would anyone fake this" immediately after talking about the millions of dollars she grifted is a really funny bit

There's this case of a woman who faked her cancer in tiktok, and while doing that is already horrible, some cancer patients said she made them feel even worst because she was out there doing exercise and living her life while having cancer, while them were way too sick and in pain to leave their homes. It takes a different breed of psycho to do that

The thing that angrys me the most is what she put her child through. She faked a seizure in front of him, during his birthday part. Then he found out she was lying. You cant process that type of stuff at that age.

What got me at the time is that no one questioned it, she claimed to be literally riddled with cancer in most of her major organs but never seemed to show a symptom of cancer or treatment.

She conned thousands of people, but whoever sold her those veneers conned her first.

it's insane to me how she claimed to have a 40 minute seizure and then just continued to act completely fine. a 40 minute seizure is almost guaranteed to cause some type of brain damage at the least, but without medical care it would've killed her. the fact that people just took her on her word for it and didn't question how someone had a 40 minute uninterrupted seizure with no signs of lasting damage shows just how gullible people are and how willing they are to believe these influencers and celebrities

"Discovering that she did not have terminal brain cancer had been traumatic, she told Brown." Damn, it must be devastating to learn that you don't suffer from a life threatening disease. In Bizarro World.

The journalists who exposed her, Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, went on to write a book, The Woman Who Fooled The World. Its full of little small details that just leave you gobsmacked by the sheer audacity of what she was doing. Highly recommend it, especially if you like books like Bad Blood.

I dated such a woman before. When she got caught lying and "confessed" the confession was just a new set of lies. And then lying about the confession itself.... It was incredible! And those lies had no purpose at all, other than to see if she would get away with it, or so it seemed.

Thank you so much for covering this story, my mum & her friends were so taken by Belle's story at the time that one of them followed her advice religiously after being diagnosed with cancer, and sadly passed away from what would have been treatable cancer at the time of diagnosis. People like Belle are objectively evil.

It hurts me physically to see her try an act like she’s a victim too from the backlash. I hope the rest of her life is miserable and lonely. Who knows how many people she directly harmed or indirectly killed by lying about traditional medicine. A true waste of human life.

7:39 The fact she showed up that the funeral uninvited and did all this hopla is just ridiculous. Attention was so important to her even in a moment meant to celebrate and grieve someone life.

Ash, this one hit pretty hard as my fiancé of ten years has just finished treatment for stage 3 breast cancer. I’m happy to report that she now has the all clear from a 72mm tumour reduced to 5.2mm from chemotherapy. It was brutal both mentally, physically, and emotionally but it proves the treatment does work. For god sake, don’t ever listen to people with “alternative” methods. I genuinely would not wish the big C on anyone, but karma will come for this bitch.

Seems like she's a pathological liar. I had a best friend at high school that used to lie to me in a lot of stuff, that I found out were not true much later. I don't see any reason she would do such stuff, yet she did and she lied to parents and teachers also. I remember her once saying she didn't know why she does it, that she didn't really want to even.

Thank you, Kira. I am a health professional and have to fight these things on a daily basis for decades now. I consider myself lucky when I manage to educate one person, because another 99 still follow the gurus. Reality does not have a magic pill to offer.

How did she collapse into a seizure but be able to talk? It’s insane no one thought anything of that. I’m epileptic and the longest seizure I’ve had is 5 minutes. You’re not in a state to talk and from my experience, I usually end up in a state of psychosis. That’s just my experience with seizures. I’ve never heard of anyone having a 40 minute seizure.

There are so many ways for scammers to get easy victims nowadays. All it takes is no shame or empathy. Despicable behaviour that will always catch up to them one day.

I followed this story as it happened and I'm glad you're covering it because people need to know that this woman is batshit crazy and sadly there are too many like her.

My mom passed of stage 4 terminal cancer, she made it 4 years. In that time she ended up in the hospice respite house 4x, where they thought she was a goner and I found her in a coma once. It was a roller coaster ride and so tough. I was just blessed covid was going in and I was getting paid unemployment and could care for her, care for her, spend all my time with her.

Her poor child. Just imagine having her as a mother.

I feel like Apple should have some liability here. It's one thing to let the app on their site or even have an algorithm promote it, it's quite another to have people at the company actively promote it without the least bit of due diligence.

I don't know if any of these stories have ever made me feel this much genuine rage. Having a normal life without terminal illnesses in either you or your loved ones is a blessing and incredibly rare. I can't imagine someone being that lucky, and looking to people that deal with these things not with sadness or pity, but with jealousy.

She faked an hour-long seizure at her son's 4th birthday, wow. The icing on the cake

Do you think that Belle specifically tried to tailor her story to sell it to Apple? Like Steve Jobs had the only type of pancreatic cancer that was treatable/ curable and he still chose homeopathic medicine, and along comes Belle with the exact same type of cancer x 12, who's medication DID work for her

I can’t remember how I found KiraTV, but it’s quickly become one of my favorite channels. Please keep it up my dude!

she is the Elisabeth Holmes of health

As someone who has lost many people I've cared about to cancer, nothing pisses me off than when people lie about having it for sympathy and/or clout

I remember seeing stuff about her before her lies were exposed and being shocked that she was being given such a huge platform to tell people something as obviously unhinged as changing your diet could cure terminal cancer. You didn't have to realise she was lying about being sick to realise the message she was putting out was dangerous, and all the big companies that enabled her ought to have been held accountable. I can't remember the details, but I think that journalists actually managed to find a few people that could have been saved by modern medical treatments, but fell into her web and died prematurely as a result.

I'm aussie. Honestly while this is definitely more severe it's not even an isolated incident. Australia is full of morons that crusade for alternative treatments and dangerously encourage people to ignore actual medicine. In the last 5 or so years there was also 2 sisters with crohns disease who appeared on the news multiple times, that raised like $7k-$8k using a go fund me style donation service, emphasising the costs of their specialists and next minute 1 immediately booked and paid for a cruise holiday and the other used their half on a trip overseas to see a Psychic Surgeon though they never had to deal with any backlash for this despite the obvious deception and possible fraud. Actual loonys.

Long-form Kira. Always a treat.

I dont understand how shes not in prison

Just wanted to drop a comment saying that Kira is killing it with the condensed docu-like videos. Gets the point across. has good information and no unecessary fluff. I love it.

How did she get away and even make money off this? I have scoliosis that is visible to anyone and even I need to see a doctor, get my MRI done to determine how severe my scoliosis is just to get it into documentations for my medical record that I have the condition. How does she not need to do anything at all? To not even needing to fake a doctor's record or memo? Just WTF really.

As someone who actually had a brain tumor when I was in my late teens and had issues with being able to eat and bad vertigo, both because of the brain tumor. This type of stuff really pisses me off. Of course when my mother was alive, she enjoyed the attention she got from telling everyone she met about my situation and getting money off of them, despite me telling her many times to stop. I was fortunate enough to get surgery to remove the tumor, but these stories always strike a chord with me for the reasons mentioned.

I’ve been in situations where I was desperate. Having no money and barely getting by. Never in any of those situations did I think, “I’m going to fake cancer and scan people”. Disgusting.

Dont you hate it when german doctors just walk into your home and diagnose you with cancer?

My Auntie, one of my best friend's Mother, and a few other women I know in my life are suffering cancer at different levels. To hear this disgusting thing garner so much attention, sympathy, and wealth by lying about a deadly medical condition that deeply effects so many people in this world angers me. As Kira said, not many people wants to be that person who asks for proof or challenges something that may sound off as everyone's story is personal, but for goodness sake, I hope it doesn't have to get to that point in society where you have to carry proof of your current medical state.

I was with a really narcissistic and selfish ex boyfriend who had his talons in me and manipulated me any chance he could get. This chick is that exact kind of person

I love when giant corporations do literally zero due diligence and give a platform to a completely horrid monster time, and time again. :)

Dude, this story is nuts. I had never heard of her before. These videos are great.

Thanks for covering this absolute POS. I live in Melbourne where she does too and it's hard to put into words how loathed she is. I wholeheartedly believe that she'll be a con artist until the day she dies. These weren't just one off situations they were a major part of who she is. Also, making your son believe that you're going to die is about as low as you can go. That poor little boy😢

I had a benign tumour the size of a football that wrecked havoc on my leg. Although this was not cancer (thankfully), prior to my surgery, at times the pain was so severe that not even powerful painkillers like hydromorphone could touch it and on occasion, I have collapse/black out because of it. It is so disgusting that someone would piggyback off of those who truly suffered. If there is a hell, there is a special place for people like that.

Good on you for showing Gwyneth Paltrow in the intro. If it wasn't for her fame in more legitimate circles (ie. acting and film making) she would be viewed in just the same way as these other scammers.

You've gotta love the diverse content and professional narration and editing on this one man show of a channel.

Fun fact: everyone I know who had cancer or a serious organ condition who sought alternative treatments instead all died. Alternative treatments kill

I took my sister to an event that she attended and the minute I bat my eye on her I knew she was a fraud.

My favorite goop moment is when she said she likes to add a dash of lemon juice to her alkaline water.

She manages to fully capitalize on her innocent and attractive appearance. On first glance you would absolutely believe that she is a victim the way she speaks and carries herself. It flips all the switches in the human brain that tell you that there is no harm coming from this person.

One of my favorite things about Gwyneth Paltrow's health lifestyle is how she puts lemon in alkaline water. 😆😆😆

Netflix needs to pick you up to make a show. These videos are just as good as the stuff on tv right now. Great Video thanks for doing all of the research just to make the video. Keep up the great work.

Every fitness trainer or health professional always gives me conflicting information or information I can find online. I'll never pay for these services. Nope.

Tbh anyone who saw what a person with 4 stage cancer looks like would be very skeptical about this woman. Money comes and money goes. The worst part is that someone on the early stages, who could be cured could buy into her lies and refuse medical treatment.

Scams are awful in general, but if you scam others in the medical sector with hope for recovery... thats truly the bottom of the barrel

poor girl, she should have gone into politics, that's the only profession you are allowed to lie and scam.

As a survivor, lemme just say that this chick belongs in jail.

Absolutely mental. Great video as always. Just to point out as well, when caught lying it looks like she only donated $1000 rather than $10,000 to One Girl (9:53)

Really hard to double check things like these as medical data is considered incredibly sensitive and is generally speaking heavily guarded information. In most countries the only people who can access that kind of information on a particular patient are the individuals that are directly involved in the patients treatment.

Oh man, this was a shock for me. I’m a dietetic masters student and we were learning about diet fads and this came up. I was extremely shocked.

Ofc she doesn't have remorse, she's a psychopath. She doesn't have the ability to feel it.

This is my first time hearing about this and maybe this is my experience but my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and early this year passed away, yes he would have moments when he would be better but there's no way he would have enough strength to pull off what she did nor look as well as she did. It baffles me how everyone bought this.

It’s people like this that make me lose my mind. My great grandmother, grandmother and mom all had/ have cancer. I’m lucky enough that my mother’s is so slow growing it took 15 years to even notice and she’s recovering really well, but the other two both lost their lives to cancer and I think my blood is physically boiling at this woman’s audacity. It’s such a gigantic, all encompassing and damn near unavoidable disease. Even just on a logical stand point, why would you fake something so outrageous that if found out it’s be like signing your life away.

Like so many others here, I have anecdotal stories of people i know who were diagnosed with stage 4 cancer - one was brain cancer. You don't look and live like Belle with that kind of illness, no matter what diet plan you follow. It's always amazing to me that people accepted her story without question.

I remember when all this broke out and came crashing down. Its nice to see this story being covered

I like that you took this story to talk about since you can feel this from your own experiences I'm sure

These people always end up outing themselves because they can't stop escalating the grift. It's bad enough that they're able to convince people with their initial obvious scam, but they always ramp up the "problems" when things are plateauing to generate a second round of miracles and get even more eyes on their business venture. This pretty much always backfires on them.

As astonishing as this case was, what scares me is that people faking things and lying about things feels as though it's becoming more of a regular occurrence.... And there doesn't seem to anything that people won't lie about.

One of my friends was i think her neighbour and it was so funny cause she used to gauge post about this girl. I don’t normally like vague posting but for the longest time it was so funny seeing it unravel. My friend couldn’t prove she was lying but she could draw attention to weird quirks. When it finally came out as true her fb was full of people going “YO YOU CALLED IT”. It was this hilariously long drawn out thing that I couldn’t believe was real

I won’t get into the story myself, because it will just piss me off and turn into a diatribe that I simply don’t need today… but every time I see this girl, or just hear her name, she reminds me of an old high school/college buddy of mine, who created the most amazing organization called Skate4Cancer, with which he skateboarded across Canada and America in honour of his mother and grandmother, and has since also done Australia and a couple other places. But just Google the name ‘Ashley Kirilow’, and read the story about what she did to him. This was before the era of ‘social media clout’ too, so her reasons for doing what she did were just asinine. This kind of thing is honestly one of the worst things a human can do in my opinion. Because it’s not just directed at hurting one person, but literally anyone and everyone who may get involved… (I wrote that before hearing Kira say it himself lol) Fuck these people.

Reminds me on the Theranos lady. Somehow all of those fraud experienced women seem to have literal demon´s eyes, as well. There must be some sort of connection between looking completely soulless and having zero empathy.

Should have known it was a scam from the moment she said the most accessible item that she put her app on was an iPhone

kira i watched your stuff back when you did MMO content, come back to find your new stuff and it’s really good man, love to see your success and i really enjoy your storytelling.

as someone who was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer at 24 (in remission 3 years now) i genuinely wish actual cancer upon these kinds of people.

She’s the type of chick who will steal from you then help you loo for what she stole😂

It's funny (and scary) how much evil looks like everyone else at a glance.

How do you not have millions of subs?! You have such great videos. I really enjoy them.

There is a lot of cancers in my family... Including my father who died from it last year. (he wasn't even mid sixty yet...) I am not surprised people like her exist, but I am always amazed how easy some people are to fooled. Even big corporation. When I see "alternative medicine", this is ALWAYS a huge red flag.

this is an excellent story, thanks for doing this video. I've been interested in this for ages but you've only gone and done all the legwork for me. Cheers dude, great video

That last bit about her talking about Ethiopia...jfc, that woman belongs in a padded cell.

The Bebe Gibson's smiling was so creepy as hell for everyone! Look her down already!😨😱

As a schizophrenic, I think many health gurus are as well and I apologize on their behalf, because they really think they are helping and are special.

love your work lad, was hoping you would cover this one and you've done a stellar job yet again

Her poor kid. Could you even imagine how confusing all this must've been for him?

I have known someone like this. It is a mental illness. Not that that gets her a lot of sympathy from me. That said they literally cannot stop lying. No matter what proof or facts you present they will just create more fantastical lies and they commit to it so much they themselves start believing it.

I almost expected her to say that an angel from God came to tell her about the cancer. That way, no one on earth can judge her.

Kira, WOW! This was really an excellent presentation and a fascinating story. Thank you!

This is why you should prioritize local charities and donations over anything else. Help those around you, the people in your life and community instead of strangers with nice sounding stories.

Great video champ. This was a big story in Aus a couple of years ago. You nailed the story

Difficult story to cover. Very well written

Its disgusting when people lie about cancer i lost my mum to cancer it was such a painful thing for mum and us not being able to help her

I was reminded of the movie "I Care A Lot". She even looks unannily like main actress Rosamund Pike (who also played Gone Girl) when she isn't smiling. But the movie was made and released before she got exposed, just goes to show that late-stage captialism satirises itself in real life as much as it is done in fiction I guess.

Google/KZfaq really needs to stop approving ads made by people like this woman.

Yeah. Stage IV kidney cancer patient here. I'm 25. The revelation that she never even had cancer made me so mad. Holy crap, what an evil person. Once again Kira, I don't know how you stay so chill scripting and editing these as a cancer survivor yourself. I would break down even trying to do it.

That is the maniacal smile of a deadly predator

i love this format Kira keep em coming!

So this is what Mel Gibson's been up to now? Wow!

You should do some more deep dives into these holistic health gurus and companies that sell alternative medicine & peddle misleading benefits