Elizabeth Holmes’ fiancé, Billy Evans, isn’t bothered by being cast as the villain—at least not in the documentary about their lives.
Nearly a month after Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything premiered, Evans is addressing the way the film depicts him.
“I love them,” he said of the filmmakers in a preview of the Nov. 15 episode of CBS Sunday Morning. “It’s entertainment. I didn’t get to control that edit.”
Evans acknowledged that he may appear “crazy” onscreen, but said his priority was clear: “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 about the documentary 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 failed blood-testing company.
Evans continues to insist that Holmes is innocent and has spoken about seeking revenge against people he believes treated her unfairly.
“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 only part of the conflict unfolding behind the scenes.
Tensions reportedly intensified between Evans and the documentary team as filming continued in the days before Holmes reported to prison.
“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 Q&A at the Telluride Film Festival, according to Vanity Fair. “And what he sort of had desired and it sort of caused our communication to break down a little bit.”
Although Evans and the filmmakers disagreed over the production, he says there is one person he has never attempted to control: Holmes, with whom he shares two children, William, 5, and Invicta, 3.
Earlier this month, he responded to that criticism during an AMA on X, after a user asked him to address what he considered a misconception in the film.
“That I somehow control Liz,” he wrote. “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, his account of their relationship has not persuaded everyone.
Amanda Seyfried, who played Holmes in Hulu’s 2022 miniseries The Dropout and also appears in the documentary, has been especially direct about her reservations.
In one particularly tense exchange, 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 continued to stand by that criticism.
“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.”