The Dropout’s Amanda Seyfried said she "feels for" Elizabeth Holmes' 2 children arsenic the erstwhile Theranos CEO begins her 11-year situation sentence.
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Begins Prison Sentence
Amanda Seyfried is weighing successful connected Elizabeth Holmes' caller reality—life down bars.
The actress, who portrayed the erstwhile Theranos CEO in 2022 TV series The Dropout, shared her thoughts connected Holmes starting her 11-year situation sentence connected May 30, the aforesaid day Seyfried appeared on Good Morning America.
"I consciousness for those kids," Seyfried said of Holmes' children—William, 22 months and Invicta, 3 months—whom she shares with Billy Evans. "There's 2 kids that are hanging successful the equilibrium here, arsenic a genitor I'm conscionable like—as a mom—I don't know."
And for Holmes herself, Seyfried had a fewer abbreviated words to accidental astir justice. "Life's not fair," Seyfired added, "but successful a batch of ways, it's fair, for her successful particular."
Her comments came hours aft Holmes reported to a women's situation campy successful Bryan, Texas to service clip for her relation successful the Theranos fraud case. She was found guilty of one number of conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud and 3 counts of ligament fraud successful January 2022, much than 7 years aft the Wall Street Journal reported that her humor start-up company's exertion was faulty. (She pleaded not blameworthy and was acquitted connected 4 different counts.)
"The blameworthy verdicts successful this lawsuit bespeak Ms. Holmes' culpability successful this ample standard capitalist fraud and she indispensable present look sentencing for her crimes," U.S. Attorney Stephanie Hinds successful a 2022 statement. "I convey the jurors for their thoughtful and determined work that ensured verdicts could beryllium reached."
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Prior to starting her situation sentence, Holmes took a look astatine her past.
"I made truthful galore mistakes and determination was truthful overmuch I didn't cognize and understand," she told the New York Times successful an nonfiction published May 12, "and I consciousness similar erstwhile you bash it wrong, it's similar you truly internalize it successful a heavy way."
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