Fielder’s “You Can See Everything” follows the Theranos founder in the 34 days before her prison sentence began.
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In the days leading up to the start of her prison sentence, Elizabeth Holmes reportedly did not believe she would actually go to prison.
This week, in an interview with Wired, Nathan Fielder, the co-director of You Can See Everything, a new documentary about Holmes, spoke about the time he spent with the Theranos founder. Asked how he reconciled feeling like he knew Holmes so well with the possibility that she was lying to him, he said the truth is murkier than that.
“It almost feels, at times, that it’s not so black-and-white what’s going on in her head,” he answered, questioning whether it counts as a lie “if she believes it to be true.” He added, “One thing that’s interesting about this situation with her is that I don’t think she believed she was going to prison until very close to her going.”
Fielder explained that Holmes’s legal team was still fighting her conviction while he was filming. “They were working on an appeal,” he told Wired. “There was a sense that something maybe was gonna happen that would cause her not to go.”
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Directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, the film follows the 34 days the two spent with Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, before Holmes went to prison.
Ultimately, the appeal did not change the outcome. Holmes began serving her 135-month sentence in May 2023 at a federal prison camp in Texas after unsuccessfully trying to delay her incarceration.
Holmes argued, among other things, that testimony from former Theranos lab directors amounted to improper expert opinion. Yet, the court found that any error was harmless because other employees offered the same testimony. In February 2025, the Ninth Circuit upheld the convictions, sentence, and $452 million restitution order.