After the release of “You Can See Everything,” the Nathan Fielder-directed documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz said it was “completely untrue” that the company’s founder did nothing wrong.

“She knows that she was lying because she created this whole web of lies that you would not have needed to create if you actually believed the lies,” Shultz said on Monday’s episode of “CBS Mornings.”

In “You Can See Everything,” Fielder and his crew spend 30 days with Holmes and her husband right before she heads to prison for wire fraud and defrauding investors in her tech company, Theranos.

Shultz, who worked at Theranos and was one of the main sources in John Carreyrou’s 2015 Wall Street Journal article exposing the company for not being what it seemed, also said he was “pretty shocked” at how Holmes looked in the documentary. The Holmes he knew “completely commanded a room,” he said, while the woman in the documentary “looked like a broken woman.”

In the movie, Holmes shows Fielder the machine that she claimed could run hundreds of tests with just a drop of blood. Shultz said the machine Holmes showed was not the device that he worked on.

“That was not the device that we hid from regulators,” Shultz said. “That was not the device that failed quality controls. That was not the device that we used to knowingly give patients incorrect medical information. And she completely misled [Fielder] down this completely different rabbit hole.”

“That device is not the reason she went to prison. The reason she went to prison was that the device that we actually used, that was actually built, was far more rudimentary, wildly inaccurate, was not a standalone platform, could only test for one thing at a time,” he continued.

Carreyrou, the journalist who originally exposed Theranos and Holmes’ fraud, also gave his opinions on the documentary. He wrote that Holmes was trying to cast “herself as the neurodivergent entrepreneur who operated on a different wavelength,” but “the performance was no more convincing than her denials of wrongdoing.”

“Ms. Holmes is charming around Mr. Fielder, even flirtatious,” Carreyrou wrote. “But you catch fleeting glimpses of the stone-cold chief executive who hit back forcefully against my reporting and went after my sources in 2015 and 2016. When Mr. Fielder asks her yet again whether she’s sure she did nothing wrong, we hear her snap: ‘I did not.’”

“You Can See Everything,” which premiered in movie theaters over the weekend, made $15 million from 855 screens, according to A24.

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