Elizabeth Holmes opens family life to cameras before starting prison sentence

Elizabeth Holmes lets Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim film her family life in the weeks before she begins a prison sentence for defrauding Theranos investors. The documentary, *You Can See Everything*, presents her offer of “radical transparency” as both a possible attempt to rebuild her reputation and a chance to promote a new venture, while asking whether the version of herself she shows is genuine.

The article argues that people who invite cameras in can lose control of how their stories are told, because documentary-makers have their own aims. Anthony Weiner’s attempted political comeback became humiliating as new scandals emerged; Lauren Greenfield’s films about the Siegels and Imelda Marcos also challenged the stories their subjects may have wanted to present. Holmes’s project therefore raises a broader question about the tension between access, image-making and editorial control.