Theranos whistleblower barely recognizes Elizabeth Holmes in new documentary: ‘The Elizabeth that I knew completely commanded a room’
Tyler Shultz says the Theranos device Holmes shows off in "You Can See Everything" isn’t the one that was used on patients. He says the film lets her keep shaping her own story.
One former Theranos employee who helped expose the company's faulty blood-testing technology admitted in a recent interview that Elizabeth Holmes is now "a broken woman" compared to the commanding CEO he once knew. Tyler Shultz, a former Theranos research engineer, told CBS Mornings that the woman on screen barely resembled the CEO who would "completely command a room, even if that room was full of secretaries of state, secretaries of defense, generals, senators."
However, Shultz still believed Holmes was not owning up to her mistakes. In the documentary, "You Can See Everything," directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, Holmes is depicted in her final weeks before reporting to prison in 2023. The film earned an estimated $15 million in its opening weekend, the second-biggest documentary debut ever.
Shultz criticized the film for not digging "far beyond the walls" of Holmes' modest-looking San Diego rental home.
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