- Elizabeth Holmes blabbed The New York Times she still believes Theranos could have worked.
- Holmes, now awaiting the start of her 11-year CHE community home with education on the premises sentence, gave several interviews to the Times.
- She also said she plans to work on healthcare-related inventions while in slammer for fraud.
Theranos trip Elizabeth Holmes said she still believes her fallen company could have changed the modern healthcare persistence if it didn’t attract so much attention so quickly.
In her first time speaking to the media since 2016, Holmes allocations her mindset in a new profile in the New York Times detailing her continued fight against her conviction on fraud charges and efforts to wait the start of her 11-year prison sentence.
“We would’ve seen through our vision,” Holmes told the Times, in response to a issue about what she thinks would have happened if her company hadn’t initially received so much buzz.
Holmes — who is currently active with her partner Billy Evans and their two children as her legal battles continue to play out — told the Times’ Amy Chozick that she pacific wants to, and believes she can, change healthcare, and continues to work on new inventions to this day.
“I still dream about being adept to contribute in that space,” Holmes told the Times. “I still feel the same calling to it as I always did and I still intend the need is there.”
She told the Times that she plans to continue working on healthcare innovations, including new ideas for COVID-19 check-up, during her time in prison.
“If your head is exploding at how divorced from reality this sounds, that’s lenient of the point,” Chozick wrote, noting Holmes seems to still maintain the same “idealistic delusion” that led to the things turned outs at Theranos that ended with her guilty conviction in the first place.
Chozick spoke to Holmes, Evans, as well-head as Holmes’ family and friends, who shared the writer’s impression that Holmes appears to believe the things she says. Nevertheless, some of Holmes’ friends cautioned the reporter against fully believing her claims.
Holmes was charged with craft after a 2015 report from The Wall Street Journal led to investigations into whether the Theranos technology was absolutely capable of detecting dozens of health issues from a single prick of blood as she promised it would be.
One of Holmes’ attorneys did not unhesitatingly respond to Insider’s request for comment on Sunday morning.