Elizabeth Holmes says she is still “fighting to prove my innocence” and hopes to return home to her children, sharing an affectionate pre-prison photograph with longtime partner Billy Evans in a rare public message from behind bars.
The 42-year-old broke her silence Sunday night, marking what she described as 1,216 “endless days and nights” in custody while emphasizing that her legal fight to overturn her conviction continues.
Holmes’s X account accompanied the statement with a photo of her smiling beside Evans, 33, the hotel heir and father of her two young children.
The image appears to have been taken before Holmes reported to prison. Wearing everyday clothing and a blue baseball cap, she rests her head against a smiling Evans as they pose outdoors.
“I was silenced for a long time. And then imprisoned,” Holmes wrote.
“I am fighting to prove my innocence and come home to my babies and the love of my life.”
Holmes is serving her sentence at Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum-security facility in Texas. She was convicted in 2022 on four fraud and conspiracy charges linked to Theranos, the blood-testing company whose dramatic collapse brought down the once-celebrated Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
Her message comes as she moves closer to a possible transition out of federal prison.
Elizabeth Holmes said in a defiant Sunday night post on X that she is “fighting to prove my innocence” and return to her children
Holmes posted a pre-prison selfie with longtime partner Billy Evans, saying he “fights fiercely” for their family and adding, “I love him beyond space and time.”
Last week, reports said Holmes had been cleared to transfer to an Austin-area halfway house next summer.
According to an update from the Department of Justice’s Victim Notification System, the former Silicon Valley star is scheduled to move to the Austin Transitional Center in Del Valle on August 23, 2027.
The facility is only a few miles from the Austin neighborhood where Evans lives, potentially allowing Holmes more opportunities to reunite with him and their children.
Holmes initially received an 11-year-and-three-month federal prison sentence. In March, that term was reduced by one year to 10 years and three months, although she is expected to spend less time than that in custody.
In Sunday’s post, Holmes also explained why her social media accounts have remained active during her incarceration.
“I have now been imprisoned for 1,216 endless days and nights,” she wrote. “During that time, as we fight for freedom, my loved ones have helped manage my account. Billy is one of the people carrying that responsibility for me.”
Holmes followed the explanation with a heartfelt tribute to Evans, who has stood by her through the collapse of Theranos, her criminal trial and her time in prison.
“He fights fiercely for me and our family,” Holmes wrote. “I love him beyond space and time.”
Elizabeth Holmes was photographed during a family visit earlier this month at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, where the former Theranos founder is serving her fraud sentence
Holmes is being held at the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas
Holmes said that from now on, messages containing her own words would be signed with her initials, ‘-EAH,’ while unsigned posts would come from the ‘team’ running the account.
‘I am profoundly grateful for the support we receive as we fight to expose the truth and challenge deeply entrenched perceptions,’ she added.
‘Opening letters from my supporters at the end of unforgiving days constantly ignites the fire in my heart.’
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Holmes concluded with a Bible verse: ‘The truth will set you free.’ John 8:32.’
The defiant statement represents the latest attempt by the disgraced entrepreneur to reenter the public conversation after years in which her spectacular rise and fall became one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious scandals.
Theranos was once valued at around $9 billion after Holmes claimed its technology could perform a vast array of medical tests using just a pin prick of blood.
But the company’s claims unraveled following reporting by The Wall Street Journal, eventually leading to its collapse and Holmes’s prosecution.
She continues to challenge her conviction and has sought clemency after her efforts to overturn the verdict through the appeals process suffered setbacks.
Her prison life is a far cry from her years as a celebrated tech billionaire.
Holmes earns just 31 cents an hour working as both a re-entry clerk and law clerk at Bryan, helping other inmates prepare for life outside prison and assisting with legal matters.
Holmes was once the celebrated founder of a startup valued at $9 billion before Theranos spectacularly imploded
Back in 2023, Holmes and Evans were photographed spending her final days of freedom soaking up the sun as a family in San Diego
She has also been ordered to pay, jointly with former Theranos executive and ex-boyfriend Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution to victims.
Weekends appear to provide something of an escape from the monotony of prison life.
Recent Our News Outlet photographs showed Holmes spending visiting hours with her son William, five, and daughter Invicta, three, on the grounds of the Texas prison.
Holmes has previously described visits from Evans and their children as the highlight of her week.
Her latest social media intervention also comes as Holmes is thrust back into the spotlight by You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder’s documentary chronicling her final weeks of freedom before she surrendered to prison.
Fielder moved into Holmes and Evans’s California home and filmed them for 34 days as the couple confronted the reality that Holmes would soon be separated from their children.
In the documentary trailer, Evans even acknowledges that he once considered whether Holmes could be scamming him.
Holmes’ husband Billy Evans, right, admits he once feared she could be ‘scamming’ him
The family reunion in prison comes ahead of the release of a documentary on the disgraced Theranos founder, made by Nathan Fielder. She is pictured with the filmmaker in the trailer
‘100%,’ Evans responds when Fielder asks whether that possibility ever crossed his mind, before questioning what Holmes could have gained from him.
Fielder also confronts Holmes herself over whether he is seeing the whole truth.
‘I don’t have anything to deceive you on,’ Holmes insists. ‘Of course I’m not deceiving you. I’m engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you? There’s no reason for me to do that.’
When Fielder asks whether she is being real, Holmes replies: ‘I’m always being real.’
