AFL Stars Tom Rockliff, Luke Delaney Slam Belle Gibson Over '60 Minutes' Interview With Tara Brown

Australian Football League players Tom Rockliff and Luke Delaney are among those who took to Twitter to slam Belle Gibson following the Australian wellness guru’s interview with with Tara Brown on Channel Nine's "60 Minutes" on June 28, Sunday.

"Belle Gibson should be in jail, Ultimate Fraud #60Mins," tweeted Rockliff, who is currently the Brisbane Lions captain.

Also not pleased with Gibson’s “60 Minutes” interview, Delaney, St. Kilda Football Club defender, tweeted, “Bloods boiling after that. No responsibility or empathy for thousands of REAL cancer sufferers. Absolute low life.”

It was rumoured that Gibson, The Whole Pantry smartphone application author, was paid $45,000 for the interview following the revelation that she never had a brain tumour that was cured by medicating herself with alternative medicine.

Like Rockliff and Delaney, many viewers were also infuriated by how Gibson answered Brown’s question in the “60 Minutes” interview. One viewer named Stefanie Spinks told Daily Mail Australia, “I felt sick watching it. She did not show remorse.”

Aside from not apologizing for claiming that she had terminal brain cancer, Gibson also refused to confirm whether she was 23 or 26 years old during the "60 Minutes" interview with Brown. When Brown asked her about her age, Gibson responded, “I would be 26.”

Without hesitation, Brown showed her exasperation and repeated the question to Gibson saying, “Okay. This is a really, really simple question. How old are you?”

In response, Gibson said she has always been raised as being currently a 26-year-old and she believes that she is 26 years old but later on, she backtracked claiming she is 23. She also insisted that she did not trade in on her story or in other people’s lives and denied trying to get away with anything.

Moreover, Gibson told Brown that two doctors diagnosed her with terminal brain disease. One of them, she claimed, was named Mark Johns, whose records do not exist. She also said a German alternative medicine practitioner wrongly diagnosed her in 2009.

Gibson still maintains that she is the victim. For her, receiving the definite confirmation that she did not have cancer was something she had to come to terms with. She said it was really traumatising and she was feeling a huge amount of grief.

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