Billy Evans Says He Enjoys 'You Can See Everything' Despite Villain Edit

Billy Evans, the husband of Elizabeth Holmes, has given his first television interview since the release of the documentary You Can See Everything — and says he is a fan of the film, even though it casts him as a villain.

The interview airs this weekend on CBS Sunday Morning with correspondent Matt Gutman. In preview clips, Gutman characterized Evans's on-screen portrayal as "conniving and manipulative."

What did Evans say about his portrayal?

Evans accepted the framing with equanimity. "I would have preferred for that not to be the case, but it's entertainment," he said. "I think that my goal is to have people see Elizabeth, and when I watch that movie, I see the person that I love in exactly who she is."

The takeaway: Evans is using the interview to redirect attention from himself to Holmes, the convicted Theranos founder.

Why did he agree to sit down on camera?

Gutman pressed Evans on the decision to appear again, given what happened after his last on-camera turn in the documentary.

Evans framed the choice as a lesson learned from Holmes's own years of press scrutiny. "You gotta learn really painful lessons sometimes in life," he said. "With Elizabeth going through everything she did in the press, the lesson that was ingrained in us is, 'You can't lose your voice.' So I look forward to speaking with you."

The shower scene dispute

In a clip posted on TikTok, Evans repeated his central complaint against the filmmakers: that he asked them to remove or pixelate a full-frontal shower scene, and they refused.

• He says he never consented to the footage: "I did not give them consent to do that."
• He first made the claim in a Twitter AMA earlier this week.
• He says he contacted the directors before release, "both through lawyers and through myself," asking, "Can you pixelate this?"
• The filmmakers, he says, "refused to do so."

Evans described the aftermath as jarring. "I was just as surprised as the whole country to have my whole body on camera for the world to see," he said. "And it's been an awkward experience in having your kids' teachers see that."

In short: the dispute now moves from social media to network television, with Evans alleging a consent violation the directors have not addressed in the previews.

Amanda Seyfried, the 'Billy detective'

Rolling Stone separately spoke with the documentary's directors, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, and with Amanda Seyfried, who appears in the film as herself and who portrayed Holmes in the series The Dropout.

Seyfried said she wanted to meet Evans while Holmes was incarcerated. "It felt dangerous. I wanted answers," she said. "We all had this need to understand who was pulling the strings. What he was doing and how he was in the footage that I saw, how you guys were interacting — it felt yucky to me. I just wanted any information I could get on Billy. I became this weird Billy detective because I had gotten such strong negative feelings from him in the footage. I felt like I needed to meet this guy. It was exciting to me, and it was scary, and it was questionable."

Her account sharpens the contrast at the heart of the CBS interview: the man calling to reclaim his voice, and the actress who investigated him because she found his presence in the footage unsettling.

The full CBS Sunday Morning interview, airing this weekend, will determine whether Evans's attempt to reframe the narrative — and his pixelation dispute with Fielder and Oppenheim — gains traction beyond preview clips and TikTok.