Theranos Film Sparks Clash Over Holmes Reporting and Truthfulness

WHO:

TheWrap - Tyler Shultz, a Theranos whistleblower, criticized Nathan Fielder’s documentary “You Can See Everything” for leaving out facts about Elizabeth Holmes’s history of deception.

TheWrap - Nathan Fielder is the documentary’s filmmaker and interviewer; Elizabeth Holmes is the Theranos founder featured in it.

TheWrap - Meghan McCain, host of “Citizen McCain,” interviewed Shultz and said Holmes was portrayed more sympathetically than she was comfortable with.

TheWrap - Holmes’s husband is Billy Evans. McCain said Evans “want[s] a Trump pardon” for Holmes and described him as “conservative or pretending to be.”

Variety - Holmes said in “You Can See Everything” that The New York Times had misquoted her in a 2023 profile.

WHAT:

TheWrap - “You Can See Everything” follows Holmes in the weeks leading up to her prison sentence for defrauding investors in Theranos, her blood-testing company.

TheWrap - Fielder asks Holmes whether she has ever told a lie, even a small fib; she says she does not believe she has.

TheWrap - Shultz said Holmes had “so many instances” of “blatantly lying” and argued that the filmmakers “chose to ignore the truth” to make the film more interesting.

TheWrap - Shultz said the documentary brought Holmes back into public discussion more than Hulu’s 2022 series “The Dropout,” in which Amanda Seyfried played Holmes.

TheWrap - Shultz warned that viewers might sympathize with Holmes and think she was wrongfully incarcerated.

TheWrap - Shultz said the device Holmes showed Fielder, which she claimed “can run any test,” was never completed or used on patients. He said the device he used at Theranos was more rudimentary, inaccurate, and gave patients incorrect results.

TheWrap - Shultz said Holmes rolled out technology before it was ready for patient testing, creating the illusion for investors that the device was in use. He referred to $900 million raised by the company.

Variety - The article reports that Holmes disputed a quotation attributed to her in a 2023 New York Times profile: “They’re not playing me. They’re playing a character I created.” The quote concerned actors portraying her in movies.

Variety - The New York Times reporter spoke out after the documentary’s release and said, “I wish I’d kept that notebook.”

WHERE:

TheWrap - Theranos was a blood-testing company; the documentary depicts Holmes in connection with the company and her prison sentence.

Variety - The New York Times profile discussed in the article was published in 2023.

WHY:

TheWrap - Shultz argued that a straightforward film exposing Holmes’s conduct “would not have been an interesting film,” and said the filmmakers omitted facts to make the documentary more compelling.

TheWrap - Shultz said the documentary could lead viewers to sympathize with Holmes; McCain said Holmes and Evans wanted a Trump pardon.

TheWrap - Shultz said Holmes’s account of Theranos’s device was intended “to mislead Nathan, to mislead the audience.”

(UPDATED October 24, 2026 05:03 UTC)

Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz is criticizing filmmaker Nathan Fielder’s documentary “You Can See Everything” for presenting Elizabeth Holmes too sympathetically and leaving out her history of deception. The film follows the Theranos founder in the weeks before her prison sentence for defrauding investors, and includes Fielder asking whether she has ever told even a small lie; Holmes says she does not believe she has. Shultz says Holmes repeatedly lied and that filmmakers ignored facts to make the story more compelling. He also warns viewers may conclude she was wrongfully incarcerated. In the documentary, Holmes demonstrates a device she claimed could run any test, but Shultz says it was never completed or used on patients. He says Theranos’s actual equipment was inaccurate, while the company raised $900 million. Holmes also disputes a quote attributed to her in a 2023 New York Times profile about actors portraying her.