Who Is Billy Evans, Elizabeth Holmes’ Partner? What to Know

Contains spoilers for “You Can See Everything”

“You Can See Everything” seemed destined to place two forces in opposition: Nathan Fielder’s famously dry, reality-bending style and Elizabeth Holmes’ deeply disputed version of the Theranos scandal. Yet one of the documentary’s biggest surprises is the unsettling presence of Billy Evans, Holmes’ partner and the father of her children, whose behavior often comes across as controlling and calculated.

Fielder follows Holmes during the final 34 days before she begins her prison sentence, giving her space to explain how she believes Theranos unraveled. At the time, Holmes was living with Evans in a modest rental home in Del Mar, California. The couple met in 2017. As the documentary notes, Evans was raised in an affluent family: His parents, William and Anne Evans, founded the Evans Hotel Group, which operates three luxury hotels across California.

Evans studied economics at M.I.T. and now serves as CEO of Haemanthus, a diagnostics startup developing technology designed to examine biological samples and identify signs of disease. The company’s mission inevitably invites comparisons to Theranos, although Evans has repeatedly maintained that Haemanthus is not attempting to become “Theranos 2.0.”

Many viewers likely expected “You Can See Everything” to center on Holmes’ unusual life before prison. Instead, Evans commands attention in several scenes, including one in which he takes a bowl of eggs away from Holmes because he believes she is whisking them incorrectly. Moments like that, along with other interactions throughout the film, have left audiences visibly uncomfortable.

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At one point, Nathan Fielder questions him about creating an AI facsimile of Holmes that people could do anything they want with. He doesn’t even seem bothered that people could create pornography with such materials, something that rubbed X user @aGuyOnMyPhone the wrong way: “I still can’t get over Nathan Fielder asking Billy Evans if he’s worried that he’s facilitating the creation of ai porn of the mother of his children for a quick buck, to which Billy can only limply provide tired platitudes about the ai revolution.”

One standout scene sees Evans get into a heated argument with the secret star of “You Can See Everything,” Amanda Seyfried. She portrayed Holmes on “The Dropout” and returns to play her here in a reenactment for a moment there’s no footage of. Evans clearly didn’t appreciate Seyfried’s portrayal, leading to a full-on shouting match between the two, leading them to argue about Charlie Kirk. For many, like @torcheeks, it was pure cinema: “Amanda Seyfried wine drunk arguing with Billy Evans about Charlie Kirk while Nathan Fielder sits quietly and observes you couldn’t script this.”

Choosing Nathan Fielder to document the weeks before a prison sentence may sound like an unlikely decision. Holmes explains that Evans introduced her to Fielder by showing her a clip from his work, apparently the “Nathan for You” segment featuring a gas-station owner recounting that he drinks his grandson’s urine when frightened.

The documentary never fully settles why Fielder was considered the right person for the project. Fielder suggests that his lack of scientific expertise meant he would not be able to challenge Holmes on the technical claims behind Theranos. But he is highly attuned to performance, social behavior and the idea of “kayfabe”—the deliberate blurring of reality and fiction. That understanding becomes the film’s most compelling asset.

During an appearance on the “All-In” podcast, Evans said the documentary was intended to let Holmes present her own account. He argued that “The Dropout” had not captured every aspect of what really happened, creating an opportunity for audiences to reconsider the story: “The whole idea was here she is, see her, and make up your own mind … It’s not to re-litigate the case.” Evans had not watched the finished film when that episode was recorded, though he acknowledged in the trailer that Holmes “looks insane.”

Whether the project achieved its stated goal is debatable. Holmes is once again a major topic of conversation, and Evans has emerged as a memorable new figure in the Theranos narrative. Still, “You Can See Everything” offers few definitive conclusions. Instead, it leaves viewers with even more questions—perhaps exactly the outcome Evans hoped to create.