Billy Evans, in first interview, tells his side of “You Can See Everything,” its portrayal of Elizabeth Holmes

Updated on: November 15, 2026 / 9:59 AM EST / CBS News

Billy Evans may be the most-talked-about person in the most-talked-about film of the year, the documentary "You Can See Everything." He sat down with "CBS Sunday Morning" for his first-ever TV interview.

Why 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.'"

"You Can See Everything" is a film by Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder, who shot to fame as an absurdist comedian, and who (along with cameras) moved in with Evans and his partner Elizabeth Holmes in the weeks before the disgraced Theranos founder reported to prison in 2023.

Evans, a 34-year-old MIT grad who'd also worked in high-tech, emerges as a shape-shifting central character. Asked if he is the person we saw in the film, or something else, Evans said, "I'm deeply passionate about my family and about the work that I do. But no, I am not some controlling monster who's leveraging his wife for insert-whatever-anybody-is-saying. No, I am not those things."

It's easy to understand why the…

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