The reporter who exposed Theranos loved the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary but says its ‘artistry’ shouldn’t obscure the fraud

Just over a decade after Elizabeth Holmes threatened him with lawsuits and tried to kill his reporting, author John Carreyrou has become a perhaps unlikely fan of “You Can See Everything,” a new documentary exploring the disgraced founder’s home life as she prepares for prison—in fact, he’s seen it twice.

Carreyrou is the author of the 2018 book “Bad Blood,” in which he reports on Theranos’ collapse and Holmes’ downfall in a captivating narrative that topped the New York Times’ bestseller list.

The new documentary, in which comedian Nathan Fielder lived in the guest house of the home Holmes shared with her partner Billy Evans and her two children for 34 days before she went to prison, has thrust Holmes, and indirectly, Carreyrou, back into the spotlight, while also earning rave reviews and an estimated $15 million during its first weekend—the second-biggest opening for a documentary ever.

Carreyrou, for his part, told the New York Times ’ “Hard Fork” podcast that he saw the film twice, the first time being during a virtually private screening with his wife at the Manhattan offices of A24, the studio behind the film.

He said he enjoyed the film even more the second time he watched it.

“I guess, over two viewings, I was really won over by the artistry of the way they filmed this thing, but also the structure, the amount of meta-thinking that went into it, how unusual it is,” he said on the podcast.

In a post on X, Carreyrou went even further, saying the documentary deserved best picture.

But he warned it doesn’t cover the full story.

“The film is a great piece of art, but let’s not confuse that art with the underlying facts,” he said in a statement to Fortune .

Some people have told Carreyrou that Holmes is “unknowable and everything is ambiguous,” he wrote in a post on X .

He said what these people are missing are the details of what he experienced during his reporting.

This includes legal threats that Theranos’ lawyers leveled against him as well as against two of his sources, Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung.

“She went after Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung with everything she had.

I was threatened with litigation on a daily basis for months on end.