Belle Gibson's lies didn't stop with 'The Whole Pantry'.

Draped in a headscarf with a new accent and a new name, cancer conwoman Belle Gibson appeared almost unidentifiable.

It was January 2020, and gone was her perfectly quaffed ponytail, neat makeup and 'wellness warrior' attitude.

In a video uploaded to Facebook, Gibson was seen attending an event for Ethiopia's Oromo community in Melbourne.

Belle Gibson was interviewed by Shabo Media pretending to be someone else. Image: Facebook.

Gibson even wore traditional dress. Image: Facebook.

Not only was she advocating for this community, she seemed to have somewhat assimilated into it.

Speaking in broken English she identified her alias to the interviewer, with a new name… 'Sabontu'.

"My heart is deeply embedded in the Oromo people, I feel blessed to be adopted by you," she said.

Posted on Facebook by Shabo Media, Gibson spoke at length about the ongoing plight of the Oromo people.

“I felt completely adopted by your nation and your people and I feel like my heart is as invested as yours and your families,” she said in the video.

“I see no difference in your struggle and the struggle that I have for fighting for the liberation of Ormea."

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It's all eerily similar to how she carried off her cancer ruse for years.

Pretending to be the beating heart of a community that she is very much not embedded in.

Gibson is infamous for falsely claiming to have treated terminal brain cancer (which she did not have) through diet changes and alternative medicine.

She built an app and a cookbook and had countless cancer sufferers following her, before the lies were uncovered in a 2015 The Age exposé.

Gibson was forced to pay a fine in excess of $400,000, a third of which was to go to Penne Schwarz, the mother of Joshua, who actually did have cancer.

Gibson had befriended them and promised to raise money for them that was never transferred.

Penne said she felt Belle had mined her son's story to bolster her identity as a cancer patient.

"We can't help but think, 'Did she use us to get in the mind of Joshua?' She'd always ask heaps of questions about Joshy's cancer and treatments. Was it to give her more credibility?" Penne said.

There are certainly parallels between that and how Gibson 'slipped' into the identity of Sabontu.

Watch: Belle Gibson speaks about her role in the Ethiopian community. Post continues after video.

At the time, Belle said she had been involved in the community for about four years, through volunteering, becoming “deeply invested” in it.

However, the interviewers said they did not know who she was at the time, and neither did the community, a Shabo Media spokesman told AAP.

“She used to come to our meetings regularly and we loved how she showed interest in our people, but the community has pulled out from her after discovering her story,” he said.

“It’s weird, we interview different people at our events and we thought she was just an Australian girl hanging around. We didn’t pick her for the video because she was somebody.”

Introducing herself in Oromo language, Gibson appeared very moved by current political situation in Ethiopia, giving them advice.

She even went as far as calling on Nobel Peace Prize winner and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed not to follow the path of Ethiopian leaders of the past.

It's just another bizarre piece of the Belle Gibson puzzle that's come back to light since her story was brought to life in the Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar.

Gibson has been keeping an extremely low profile since the show came out, and while she's living in Melbourne, we don't know too much more about her life (or the stories she could be spinning).

In February 2024, a reporter from A Current Affair approached Gibson at a petrol station. When asked why she hasn't "paid a cent" of her fines, she responded, "Have some humanity. I haven't paid things because I can't afford to."

Victorian premier Jacinta Allan said, "There are fines outstanding and Consumer Affairs Victoria is pursuing this constantly and consistently and won't let up."

That is despite earlier reports that attempts to make the fraudster pay had been 'abandoned'.

Featured image via Shabo Media.

-With AAP.