As Elizabeth Holmes reported to prison on Tuesday, Amanda Seyfried shared her thoughts on the disgraced Theranos founder’s sentence.
Tuesday to discuss her new show “The Crowded Room,” and acknowledged that the timing was “weird” that Holmes was beginning her sentence at the same time.
“I feel for those kids,” Seyfried said, referring to Holmes’ two young children. “There’s two kids that are hanging in the balance here.” The “Mamma Mia” star, mother to two children herself, added that it affected her “as a parent, as a mom” as well.Holmes wasto 11 years and three months in prison for defrauding investors while running her failed blood testing startup Theranos.
Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani – her ex-boyfriend and former Theranos COO, also convicted of fraud – are ordered to pay restitution of roughly $452 million to victims of their crimes. Holmes founded Theranos, a startup that claimed to have invented technology that could accurately test for a range of conditions using just a few drops of blood, in 2003. The company raised $945 million from an impressive list of investors and was valued at some $9 billion at its peak – making Holmes a paper billionaire. She graced magazine covers and engaged in public speaking events wearing a black turtleneck that invited comparisons to the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
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