Apple Cider Vinegar star Kaitlyn Dever knows his desperate desire to heal what modern medicine can’t do. The doctor was diagnosed with Dever’s mother, Cathy, and had stage 4 breast cancer at just 39 years old. She died after the battle last 14 years.
“In the past few years of her life,” Dever tells USA Today. “In addition to traditional treatments, I was really interested in other therapeutic things that she could do for her body that wasn’t traditional. “I was hooked on it just because I wanted to see all the options possible for her.
Dever described her mother as “everything” about her in her Instagram tribute. “What I say is the gift you gave me in my life, the infinite joy you brought, the deep, infinite, unconditional love you gave me and our family. ” she writes. “Your love was everywhere.”
Netflix’s six-part limited series dramatically portrays the rise and fall of Australian wellness influencer Belle Gibson (Dever). Gibson promoted her way with cookbooks and apps that have been downloaded at least 300,000 times. After all, her cancer was now shockingly undetectable. But that’s because journalists Beau Donnell and Nick Toscano discovered it, so she didn’t have it in the first place. They have explained this finding in detail in their book. “The Woman Who Deceived the World” influenced the series. On the show, Belle emulates blogger Milla Blake (Alycia Debnam-Carey).
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“Maybe it’s ramp-spanning and insidious,” she says. “Titktok is a great example,” and there is a constant barrage of hacking and trends. Collect) Information to really make sure what you’re getting is correct, it’s constant and it’s as common as I think it’s just as common as now. “It’s so easy to feel that being seduced by magic pills on social media “is drawn in by those things and sometimes very cheating,” she says.
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Samantha Strauss, creator of “Vinegar,” says she received a letter from someone who watched the show and fought breast cancer. “She thinks, ‘I wanted to get away and eat some blueberries,'” Strauss recalls. “It sounds like such a lovely alternative.” Compare especially with the reality of chemotherapy, surgery and radiation. Strauss’ best friend’s 3-year-old son has been diagnosed with leukemia. “The doctor has to put all of this terrible medicine in his body every day,” Strauss says. Her friend said, “You have to believe it will work. He is screaming in bed and doesn’t understand why it’s going on. And she’s like a monster passing through this I feel that way.”
In preparation for manipulative Bell, who enjoyed the sympathy that her fake illness beat her, Dever said, “I thought a lot about the amount of hope that wellness can bring to people. In our story, , this is trying to convey the idea that we are desperate, desperate for love and do whatever we can to get it. And many of these moments are what we are playing on shows. Many of these more emotional beats were crying out for help in many ways.”
The idea of Strauss playing a fictional bell made in a “twist, charming and entertaining way” excited Dever. She also welcomed the challenge of Australian accents. Debnam Curry, from Sydney, thinks she was glued to her. And perhaps the most heartwarming project is one that pleases Dever’s late mother.
“I knew it was a difficult subject to surround me,” Dever says. “But I know my mother was very excited. She could read all the scripts and loved it. She thought it was such a great story. So there was a lot of excitement surrounding it. So I felt like I had to do it and I felt a certain calling to do it.”