A new documentary set for release next month offers a rare glimpse inside disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ life in the final weeks before she entered federal prison.
The trailer for A24’s documentary, featuring filmmaker Nathan Fielder, shows Holmes in a candid conversation as she repeatedly insists she is not deceiving him.
“I’m not that person, I can promise you that,” Holmes says. “I don’t have anything to deceive you on. Of course, I’m not deceiving you. I’m engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you? There’s no reason for me to do that.”
A new documentary set for release next month offers a rare glimpse inside disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ life before prison. (Yichuan Cao/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Fielder responds, “OK. Alright. OK, good chat. … You’re being real right now?”
“I’m always being real,” Holmes responded.
The trailer debuted as the documentary premiered at the Telluride Film Festival over the weekend, The New York Times reported.
According to A24, Holmes invited a “skeptical film crew” to document her life 34 days before she reported to prison.
“What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss,” the studio says in the film’s synopsis.
According to A24, Holmes invited a “skeptical film crew” to document her life 34 days before she reported to prison. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
The film features intimate conversations between Holmes and Fielder and, according to The New York Times, reveals that Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, discussed plans to launch “a new and improved Theranos.”
“I don’t know why I’m there,” Fielder said during a post-screening Q&A at Telluride, according to The New York Times.
Fielder said he repeatedly gave Holmes and Evans opportunities to stop filming, the outlet reported.
“I’m really struggling to this day to understand what I experienced,” he added. “I’m excited for this movie to come out and for people to help me with what I experienced.”
The film reportedly reveals that Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, discussed plans to launch “a new and improved Theranos.” (Philip Pacheco/Getty Images)
Holmes, 42, founded Theranos on claims its technology could perform hundreds of medical tests using just a few drops of blood. Prosecutors said those claims were false and that she defrauded investors by misleading them about the company’s technology and business. Holmes was convicted on one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and three counts of committing fraud Jan. 2, 2022.
Theranos shut down in 2018.
Holmes was originally sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison, but a federal judge reduced her sentence by one year in March.
She remains incarcerated at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas.
Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion contributed to this report.
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