Elizabeth Holmes’ fiancé, Billy Evans, has no problem being cast as the villain—at least not in their documentary.
Nearly a month after Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim released You Can See Everything, Evans is addressing his portrayal in the film.
“I love them,” he said of the co-directors in a preview of the Nov. 15 episode of CBS Sunday Morning. “It’s entertainment. I didn’t get to control that edit.”
Although Evans acknowledged that he appeared “crazy” at times, he said his central aim was simple: “Have people see Elizabeth, and when I watch that movie, I see the person that I love and exactly who she is.”
So why speak publicly now?
“You gotta learn really painful lessons sometimes in life,” he said. “And with Elizabeth going through everything she did in the press, the lesson that was ingrained in us is you can’t lose your voice.”
His comments represent the latest public show of support for the disgraced Theranos founder, who is serving an 11-year federal prison sentence after being convicted of defrauding investors in her now-shuttered blood-testing company.
Evans continues to maintain that Holmes is innocent and has vowed revenge against people he believes mistreated her.
“I’m going to ruin their lives,” Evans said in the documentary, according to the Los Angeles Times. “F—king everyone. I’ve got vengeance in my heart.”
Those incendiary remarks were far from the only drama unfolding behind the scenes.
As filming continued in the days before Holmes began serving her prison sentence, tensions grew between Evans and the documentary team.
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“Near the end of the process, Billy was trying to exert, we felt, a lot of control over the process,” Fielder said during a Sept. 6 question-and-answer session at the Telluride Film Festival, according to Vanity Fair. “And what he sort of had desired, it sort of caused our communication to break down a little bit.”
While Evans may have clashed with Fielder and Oppenheim, he insists there is one person he has never tried to control: Holmes, the mother of his children, William, 5, and Invicta, 3.
Earlier this month, Evans responded to that accusation in an AMA on X, after a user asked him to address a misconception raised by the documentary.
“That I somehow control Liz,” he replied. “Anyone who actually knows her would find that idea hilarious.”
“She’s fiercely independent, strong-willed, and my best friend,” he continued. “We are partners in every sense. We challenge each other, disagree, and face the world together.”
Still, not everyone accepts his account of their relationship.
Amanda Seyfried, who portrayed Holmes in the 2022 Hulu miniseries The Dropout and also appears in the documentary, has been especially vocal about her concerns.
In one tense scene, Seyfried challenged Evans over his handling of Holmes’ X account. Evans said Holmes writes “80%” of the posts, but Seyfried later described him as “bats–t crazy.”
She has not softened her position.
“I don’t like the way he’s using this human being, his wife—the person he says he’s ‘building monuments of love’ to—as a tool,” she told Rolling Stone in an interview published Nov. 11. “Maybe he does respect her, but he’s behaving like he does not respect her.”
