Tyler Shultz Holmes Doc: ‘Broken Woman’
The Tyler Shultz Holmes documentary reaction arrived Monday when the Theranos whistleblower told CBS Mornings he was stunned by the Elizabeth Holmes he saw onscreen in “You Can See Everything,” describing her as “a broken woman” and accusing her of misleading the film’s director.
“She Would Own a Room”
“The Elizabeth that I knew completely commanded a room, even if that room was full of secretaries of state, secretaries of defense, generals, senators. She would own a room,” Shultz said on CBS Mornings. “She had so much confidence, and the woman that I saw onscreen looked, frankly, like a, a broken woman.”
“It was almost unrecognizable,” he added. Shultz said Holmes constructed “an intricate web of lies” around the company — a web she would never have needed, he argued, if she had truly believed in the technology.
An Accusation Against the Director
Shultz also said Holmes misled Nathan Fielder, who directed the documentary alongside Lance Oppenheim, when she produced what she claimed was the Theranos blood-testing device on camera and laid its components across a table.
“That was not the device that I worked with 12 hours a day,” Shultz said. “That was not the device that we hid from regulators. That was not the device that failed quality controls. That was not the device that we used to knowingly give patients incorrect medical information.” He said she had “completely misled” Fielder, sending him “down this completely different rabbit hole.”
The film takes viewers inside Holmes’s rented San Diego property in 2023, just weeks before she began her 11-year prison sentence, where she lived with her partner, Billy Evans, and their two children. The documentary opened Friday and took in $15 million at the box office over its first weekend.
A Decade After the Whistleblowing
Shultz joined Theranos as an intern in 2013; his grandfather, former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, sat on the company’s board. He left the following year to assist investigations by The Wall Street Journal and government regulators — a split with his grandfather that became one of the scandal’s defining human dramas. Holmes has never admitted wrongdoing, and she holds firm in the documentary.
Source: CBS News