Elizabeth Holmes grilled by prosecutors on witness stand in her criminal fraud trial
In a tense day of testimony, the former founder of Theranos tried to fight assertions from federal prosecutors that she deliberately deceived investors and misled patients.
When Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani split, her life was shattered.
"Nothing is real any more," Holmes told the jury in her federal fraud trial she recalled thinking back in 2016.
"My whole foundation, life, what I believed in, devotion to the company, was based on believing he was this person," Holmes said of Balwani, her ex-boyfriend and business partner of the now-collapsed blood-testing startup Theranos.
"There was no way I could save our company if he was there," Holmes said Tuesday. "And so, that was it."
One day earlier, Holmes that Balwani was a manipulative partner who emotionally and sexually abused her, just as she adored and poured faith into him.
