I person heard it said that fame is the astir addictive of each drugs. I person been skeptical astir this, but Elizabeth Holmes’ ongoing PR saga makes maine wonderment if it is, successful fact, true.
Holmes has appeared successful People magazine to show america that situation is “hell and torture,” successful the aforesaid measurement that 1 mightiness opportunity “butt and ass” aliases “dick and cock.” The constituent of hell, for those of you who are not up connected Christian theology, is torture. That’s what it’s for.
Holmes is successful prison for defrauding investors astatine her company Theranos. She fought bony and nail, each measurement of the way, to debar this. First, she insisted connected her innocence (and moreover testified successful her ain defense). Then, aft the trial, she appealed, trying to stay retired of prison. During that process, she was fawningly profiled by The New York Times, arsenic portion of an image rehabilitation campaign: don’t telephone her Elizabeth, she’s Liz now.
The People floor plan reuses galore of the New York Times’ glamour shots, which makes sense: it’s difficult to get photos of inmates. But moreover if Holmes is inside, her publicist is moving overtime. As successful the The Times’ profile, the accent is connected Holmes arsenic a mother, and really difficult it is for her to beryllium distant from her children. “I’m not the aforesaid personification I was backmost then,” Holmes tells People, vaguely saying that “there are things I would person done differently.” She still insists Theranos was a failure, not a fraud. Girlie, this one’s over. We each heard you lie.
You know, I mightiness person managed her image differently. For starters, I apt would person waited a fewer much years earlier trying to activity redemption. That gives group clip to hide things for illustration the grueling hours she expected from employees, the misdiagnoses of (variously) HIV and miscarriage, and — evidently — all the lies. It besides gives Holmes much do-gooder accomplishments to tout, and possibly immoderate much secondary sources for interviews to opportunity what a bully woman she is. I mightiness moreover effort to talk her into admitting the point we each know, that she engaged successful fraud, truthful she tin yet person immoderate benignant of credibility.
But it seems Holmes can’t tummy waiting, aliases telling the truth astir Theranos. So she’s telling People stories astir redeeming her bosom beverage truthful that she tin consciousness a relationship to her child. There is besides this assertion, which I find myself funny about: “Later, Holmes said to the prison’s prison guard astir allowing women to breastfeed privately and authorities yet built aggregate lactation rooms successful the lodging units successful 2023.” Am I to judge that Holmes has truthful overmuch sway successful a situation that she tin get accommodation built? Or were those accommodation already planned? It’s not clear from People’s accounting.
I’m besides not clear if the publicist is deliberately selecting incurious reporters, the ones who are easiest to play, aliases if doing immoderate existent activity seems for illustration it is beyond the remit of People, but successful immoderate sense, it doesn’t matter. She tin telephone herself Liz if she likes. She’ll ever beryllium Elizabeth Holmes to me.
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