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Elizabeth Holmes’ Partner Billy Evans Claims ‘Borat-Style’ Wrestling Scene Was Cut From Documentary

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Elizabeth Holmes’ partner, Billy Evans, allegedly wrestled filmmaker Nathan Fielder in a deleted scene from the documentary You Can See Everything.

“I really wish they’d kept the scene where I wrestled Nathan, Borat style,” Evans, 34, wrote via X on Sunday, November 8, referencing a scene from Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 comedy Borat. “Full top mount. His little Canadian frame struggling beneath me.”

Evans added that he “thought [Fielder] was in on the joke, until he wasn’t.”

“Imagine realizing that [on] camera,” he continued. “This literally wouldn’t make the top 10 best deleted scenes. We didn’t hold back. We showed them everything. You saw what they wanted to show you …. It was a wild experience. Hate us, live [sic] us, the truth or lack there of is in the edit.”

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Evans responded to several fans who asked for clarification on the alleged wrestling scene.

“Clothed,” he wrote when asked if he was “naked” while entangled with Fielder, 43, a reference to the scene in which Borat was nude as he wrestled his producer (played by Ken Davitian). “But [codirector] Lance Oppenheim asked him to 1) stand by the edge of the pool 2) remove his phone and monitor 3) look up. Then I tossed Nathan into the pool. Borat wrestling ensued. I thought it was a bit. It wasn’t.”

Evans also agreed with a fan who encouraged Fielder and Oppenheim, 30, to “release the footage” that wasn’t shown in the final edit of the A24-produced doc, which hit theaters on October 16.

“They filmed us for 3 years. Everything. Imagine your life for 3 years. Every conversation up for debate, with someone else deciding what to show,” he wrote. “But yes. I advocate for it.”

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You Can See Everything pulls back the curtain on Holmes’ life in the month leading up to the start of her 11-year federal prison sentence in 2023. The meta doc — which turns the lens on itself to show the film crew and cameras at work — also features footage of Evans from 2025.

Holmes, 42, is the former CEO of Theranos, a company she founded in 2003 and claimed would create a revolutionary medical device that could run hundreds of complex health tests from a tiny pinprick of blood. An investigation in 2015 discovered that the technology did not work, and Holmes was accused of deceiving high-profile investors.

In January 2022, a jury found Holmes guilty of four counts of wire fraud and conspiracy. She was sentenced in November 2022 to 11 years and three months in federal prison and reported to a facility in Bryan, Texas, in May 2023. (Holmes was also ordered to pay 12 victims a total of $452 million in restitution. Her former business partner and ex, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, was sentenced to nearly 13 years in federal prison and ordered to pay a share of the $452 million to their victims.)

In September, Holmes secured an early release from the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp in Bryan and is scheduled to be transferred to a halfway house, the Austin Transitional Center in Del Valle, Texas, in August 2027 — three years before she was previously expected to be released from prison.

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