Amanda Seyfried made a Good Morning America look on the identical day disgraced tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes started her 11-year prison sentence.
“Timing is everything,” host Michael Strahan famous, with Seyfried – who starred because the convicted Theranos founder in Hulu’s 2022 miniseries The Dropout – acknowledging the coincidence: “I heard that. Today’s the massive – yeah, bizarre, you recognize.
“I really feel for these children. There’s two children which are hanging within the steadiness right here, as a guardian, as a mother…,” she trailed off, uncomfortably.
“Life’s not fair, but in a lot of ways it’s fair, for her in particular.”
On Tuesday (30 May), Holmes reported to federal prison in Texas to start her 11-year sentence, minutes earlier than a court-imposed deadline.
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The 39-year-old was convicted in January 2022 of 4 counts of fraud and conspiracy for mendacity concerning the capabilities of her biotech firm’s blood testing expertise and conning traders out of tens of millions of {dollars}.
Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout (left) and Elizabeth Holmes in 2014 (proper)
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She was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison and ordered to pay $452m in restitution to traders – together with $125m to media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Earlier this month, a federal appeals courtroom rejected Holmes’s preliminary bid to stay out of prison whereas she makes an attempt to overturn the conviction.
She was, nevertheless, granted a delay to kind out a number of points, together with childcare for her one-year-old son William and three-month-old daughter Invicta.
Her youngsters, whom she shares along with her husband Billy Evans, shall be allowed to go to their mom within the facility.
Holmes had been given till 2pm native time to give up to the prison camp the place she’s going to see out her sentence surrounded by different white-collar, non-violent feminine offenders.
She was initially due to start her prison sentence on 27 April.
Seyfried’s portrayal of Holmes within the eight-episode true-crime sequence about her downfall, earned the actor an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie.
Up subsequent, the Mean Girls star may be seen reverse Tom Holland in Apple TV+’s forthcoming crime-mystery miniseries The Crowded Room, a challenge Holland stated he’s “never been more excited to share” with followers.
