Belle Gibson’s mother likens 60 Minutes interview to ‘suicide’, says program made her daughter look like a fool

Just months after slamming her daughter’s “rubbish” account of her life, Natalie Dal-Bello says Ms Gibson is being bullied and should be left alone.
“Nobody complained about Belle when she was helping people and now they want to put her under the microscope,” Ms Dal-Bello told the Herald Sun.
“When you mention the word cancer, then everyone turned like piranhas on her, like they wanted to eat her alive.
Ms Gibson, whose tall tale of eating her way back to health after falsley claiming she had terminal brain cancer saw her The Whole Pantry wellness empire collapse, faced a further public pasting last month when she appeared on 60 Minutes.
She told the program she had been tricked into believing she was sick by doctors, a claim that was widely disbelieved.
Ms Dal-Bello, was accused by her daughter of making her run the household as a five-year-old and care for her “autistic” brother, said Belle’s decision to appear on the program was “suicide.”
“That was like committing suicide — she should never have done that interview.
“(They have) really shown her up to be an absolute fool.”
Ms Gibson told Australian Women’s Weeklyshe blamed a troubled childhood on her problems, triggering an angry response from Ms Dal-Bello in the same magazine.
“Her brother is not autistic and she’s barely done a minute’s housework in her life,” she told the magazine in May.
“I can’t tell you how embarrassed we are about what she has done,”
Now Ms Dal-Bello says she’s open to reconciliation with her daughter.
“Belle is allowed to tell little porky pies. Who the hell doesn’t tell a lie in their life?”