Belle Gibson has learned no lessons from her exposure as a fake

IF Belle Gibson dupes even one more person with her latest rubbish it would be a crime, writes Wendy Tuohy.

CAN there be anyone left who would consider putting anything into their body, changing their diet, taking anything or adopting any health regimen whatsoever on the say-so of the fraud Belle Gibson?

The sad truth, one apparently believed by this woman who prospered by duping seriously ill people, is that there probably are some.

A Federal Court judge today upheld “most” claims against the cancer con.

To state the obvious; that someone who conned cancer sufferers into believing she had cured her own “brain cancer” with food and they could too is back linking herself to health treatments is outrageous.

By returning to the biggest social media platform, Facebook, to back an alternative health product, she has signalled her intent to pick up where she left off: offering fake hope to desperate people.

Gibson has popped back up online endorsing a ‘master fast’ she reportedly wrote on Facebook had healed her tooth cavities, reduced the size of her tonsils by 30 per cent (honestly), caused her to expel a huge “rope worm” and even changed the colour of her eyes.

The product is advertised to people who have been “given a death sentence”.

Belle Gibson appears on 60 Minutes after it was revealed she had faked her brain cancer. (Pic: Supplied)

Gibson is reported to have written on the social media platform that she hadn’t “felt like this my entire life” after trying it — just the same kind of rubbish language she used the first time she hit the public radar... and we all know how that turned out.

Such is the contempt this young charlatan has for her vulnerable victims, and for taking responsibility for the harm she caused, she has failed to turn up to any the court Federal Court hearings in the civil case Consumer Affairs Victoria hopes will see her prevented from continuing with any more deceit.

Not only has she ignored calls to hand over to charities, as promised, $300,000 she made from spruiking her fallacious claims, Gibson is apparently trying to reboot her profile as a health commentator.

What an insult to people still hurting from being sucked in cruelly by her once.

There was some sympathy for Gibson when she was exposed as a dangerous shyster.

After that weird 60 Minutes tell-all some concluded, generously, that she didn’t appear to enjoy the same level of mental health as most of us.

Many were enraged by Gibson’s blank-faced insistence that her ridiculous and unsubstantiated claims — even about ever having been diagnosed with cancer — had any grain of truth.

I worried she could be at risk, and even said on Today Extra that it could be unwise to go in too hard on the apparently troubled mother-of-one. More fool me.

As Consumer Affairs Victoria’s case against the disgraced wellness blogger draws to a close today, those whose hopes she raised, whose money she took and whose suffering she treated with such contempt will be watching and hoping the mockery ends today.

No matter how justifiably frightened and open to any possible help seriously unwell people are, it would be a crime if even one was fooled again.