Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz says Elizabeth Holmes looks like “a broken woman” in documentary

October 19, 2026 / 10:50 AM EDT / CBS News

Tyler Shultz, a former Theranos employee and one of the whistleblowers credited with exposing Elizabeth Holmes' now-infamous biotech company as a fraud, said he "was pretty shocked" by the version of Holmes he saw onscreen in the new documentary "You Can See Everything."

"The Elizabeth that I knew completely commanded a room, even if that room was full of secretaries of state, secretaries of defense, generals, senators. She would own a room," Shultz said Monday on "CBS Mornings." "She had so much confidence, and the woman that I saw onscreen looked, frankly, like a, a broken woman."

"It was almost unrecognizable," he added.

Shultz also said he believes Holmes misled Nathan Fielder, who directed the documentary alongside Lance Oppenheim, when at one point in the film she pulled out what she claimed was Theranos' blood-testing device.

"She brings out the Theranos device, and she lays it across the table and all of its components, so you know you can see everything," said Shultz. "But my problem was: that was not the device that I worked with 12 hours a day. That was not the device that we hid from regulators.

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