# Theranos whistleblower says Holmes still controls her story

> Tyler Shultz watched the new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes and saw her misleading the director about the blood-testing device that never worked.
- Title: Theranos whistleblower says Holmes still controls her story
- Summary: Tyler Shultz watched the new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes and saw her misleading the director about the blood-testing device that never worked…
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- Source: Fortune — https://fortune.com/2026/10/20/theranos-whistleblower-tyler-shultz-elizabeth-holmes-you-can-see-everything-documentary
- Author: Bilin Lin
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: elizabeth holmes, theranos, tyler shultz, you can see everything, blood-testing device, documentary, fraud conviction
## Documentary draws record crowds
You Can See Everything, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, earned an estimated fifteen million dollars in its opening weekend, the second-biggest documentary debut ever, behind only Michael Moore's Fahrenheit nine eleven.
## Holmes maintains she never lied
The film follows Elizabeth Holmes in the final weeks before she reported to prison in twenty twenty-three.
## Shultz barely recognizes the woman
Tyler Shultz, a former Theranos research engineer who helped expose the company's faulty blood-testing technology, barely recognized Holmes on screen.

> The Elizabeth that I knew completely commanded a room, even if that room was full of secretaries of state, secretaries of defense, generals, senators.
## The device shown was never real
In the documentary, Holmes lays out components of a Theranos blood-testing device on a kitchen table.Shultz said she showed a future version never completed and never used on patients.
## Shultz accuses Fielder of missing it
When Shultz saw the scene in the theater, his wife had to stop him from shouting that is not the device.

> THAT IS NOT THE DEVICE
## The modest-living story was false
Holmes cultivated an image of a work-obsessed founder who lived modestly.In the documentary she lives in a San Diego rental with her partner Billy Evans and two children.
## Holmes now serving federal prison sentence
Once a billionaire, Elizabeth Holmes is now serving a federal prison sentence in Texas. Tyler Shultz does not dismiss Holmes' suffering but wrote that being a victim does not excuse her own conduct.
## Key takeaway

Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz says Elizabeth Holmes continues to control her narrative in a new documentary, misrepresenting the failed blood-testing device she once claimed would revolutionize healthcare.