Who Is Elizabeth Holmes' Partner, Billy Evans? You Can See Everything Explained

Contains spoilers for "You Can See Everything"

Going into "You Can See Everything," audiences were probably expecting to see an unstoppable force (Nathan Fielder's deadpan comedy designed to blur the lines between reality and fiction) and an immovable object (Elizabeth Holmes' warped perception of what really went down with Theranos). But the one thing most seemed caught off-guard with is Holmes' partner and father of her children, Billy Evans, being so chilling and manipulative.

Fielder spends Holmes' final 34 days of freedom with her to get her point of view of what went wrong with Theranos. She's renting a small home in Del Mar, California with Evans, whom she met in 2017. As Fielder alludes to in the film, Evans comes from money. His parents are William and Anne Evans, entrepreneurs who founded the Evans Hotel Group, which oversees three luxury properties throughout California. 

Evans received a bachelor's degree in economics from M.I.T., and is currently the CEO of Haemanthus. This is a diagnostics company that's building tools to scan biological materials to pinpoint potential diseases. It's remarkably similar to what Theranos was trying to accomplish but failed to develop the necessary technologies although Evans has insisted that Haemanthus is not going to be Theranos 2.0. 

Audiences likely went into "You Can See Everything" expecting to see some wild scenes from Elizabeth Holmes before her prison sentence, for which she's still incarcerated. But Evans may have stolen the spotlight in some scenes, like taking away a bowl of eggs from Holmes because he thinks she's not whisking them properly. But many moments throughout have rubbed moviegoers the wrong way.

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."

It might seem strange to let a comedian like Nathan Fielder make a documentary about your impending incarceration. In "You Can See Everything," Elizabeth Holmes says that Billy Evans was the one who told her about Fielder by showing her a clip of him at a gas station, likely the "Nathan for You" moment where the gas station owner tells Fielder about drinking his grandson's urine when he's scared. 

As for why Fielder was right for this documentary, that remains unclear. In the film, Fielder speculates it's because he's not a scientist and therefore can't question Holmes on Theranos' science specifically. However, he's someone who understands kayfabe and human behavior, and that's where "You Can See Everything" excels. 

On the "All-In" podcast, Evans explained that the documentary was supposed to allow Holmes to tell her story. There's much "The Dropout" got wrong about reality, so this was an opportunity to rewrite the narrative: "The whole idea was here she is, see her, and make up your own mind ... It's not to re-litigate the case." At the time of the recording, Evans hadn't seen the full film yet but admitted in the trailer that Holmes "looks insane."

Was the attempt successful? Everyone is talking about Holmes again, so there's that. And Evans is now a recognizable fixture in the Theranos story, so maybe he'll benefit in the long run. But "You Can See Everything" raises more questions than answers, and maybe that's what Evans wanted all along.