Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the infamous Terranos, once celebrated as the first woman's homemade billionaire, broke her silence in her first interview from a federal prison in Texas.
Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in November 2022 for fraud and conspiracy, scamming hundreds of millions of dollars investors by lying to raise money for blood test startup Theranos He was ordered to pay the investors $452 million in reparations for the purpose. She began her sentence on May 30, 2023.
“My favorite person is that I stand here and a prisoner and have to leave when my reality sinks,” the 41-year-old mother said. Interviews with peopledetailing her experience behind the bar.
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Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., will arrive at Federal Prison Camp Brian, Brian, Texas, USA on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (Sergio Flores/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Holmes is being held at Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Brian Brian, Texasabout 100 miles in Houston.
Twice a week, she is allowed to visit in prison for several hours with her partner Billy Evans and their two children, William, 3 and Holmes, whom she shared in her interview. Masu.
She said, “Every time I shatter my world,” she saw her leave the safe glass door that separates her from freedom.
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“I'm not the same person I was back then,” said Holmes, who pleaded not guilty at the trial.
“There are things I would have done differently,” she added. “I refused to plead guilty to a crime I didn't commit. Terranos failed. But failure is not a fraud.”
Holmes said he found “The Dropout,” a Hulu series based on her company's rise and fall.
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“It's surreal. People who have never met me don't believe that strongly about me. They don't understand who I am. They question their beliefs and don't want the truth to win. It forces you to spend a lot of time being on your own,” Holmes said. “I walk through faith and ultimately by truth. But what I'm here was hell and torture.”
Holmes gave birth to her first child a few weeks before the trial began, and she gave birth to her second baby just three months before she began prison.
“I always wanted to be a mother,” she explained to people. “I didn't really think I was convicted or found guilty.”
In her own experience of trying to breastfeed newborns while in prison, Holmes spoke with the watchman about allowing women to personally breastfeed. Eventually, authorities created a nursing room in 2023 for their prison mothers.
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Former Terranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, along with her boyfriend Billy Evans, left a hearing in the Robert E. Peckham U.S. Courthouse in San Jose, California on March 17, 2023. (Pacheco/Getty Images)
Holmes said her reason for conducting the interview was to defend on behalf of incarcerated people and inmates who were separated from their children.
Behind the bar, she works as a re-entry clerk, helping women to be released in preparation for freedom and teaching French classes. She also maintains a predominantly vegan diet, but she started eating fish after becoming anemia in her first year in prison, she told people.
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Holmes is scheduled to be released on April 3, 2032, and she said she plans to continue her career in healthcare technology based on her freedom.
“There's no day when I'm not working on my research and invention,” she said. “I am totally committed to the dream of making affordable healthcare solutions available to everyone.”
