Elizabeth Holmes says she is fighting to prove her innocence after more than three years in prison, as the former Theranos chief executive seeks to return to her husband, Billy Evans, and their children.
Holmes, who is serving her sentence at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, made the comments in a post on X. “I was silenced for a long time … and then imprisoned,” she wrote.
She said she was “fighting to prove my innocence and come home to my babies and the love of my life”, referring to Mr Evans.
Holmes said she had spent “1,216 endless days and nights” behind bars. She thanked supporters for letters of encouragement, saying they had prompted her to “expose the truth and challenge deeply entrenched perceptions”.
She ended the message by quoting the Bible: “The truth will set you free.”
Holmes was convicted at a federal trial on three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud involving 14 Theranos investors, including Walgreens and Safeway.
Prosecutors alleged that she devised a fraudulent scheme to persuade investors to put millions of dollars into Theranos, which claimed its technology would revolutionise blood testing. She was initially sentenced to more than 11 years in prison, although a judge reduced the sentence by one year in March.
Holmes is due to be transferred to a halfway house near Austin, Texas, in August 2027. The Federal Bureau of Prisons lists her official release date as February 22, 2030.
