Elizabeth Holmes’ partner Billy Evans has claimed on social media that he wrestled You Can See Everything co-director Nathan Fielder “Borat style.”

Evans, 34, has received widespread attention following his role in the documentary about Holmes’ last days of liberty before she was sent to prison for defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup, Theranos.

Filmmakers Fielder and Lance Oppenheim spent extended periods of time filming Evans and Holmes, both before and after her incarceration. The A24 film raises questions about the nature of truth and the ethics of documentary filmmaking.

In a post on X, Evans wrote: “I really wish they’d kept the scene where I wrestled Nathan, Borat style. Full top mount. His little Canadian frame struggling beneath me. I thought he was in on the joke. Until he wasn’t. Imagine realizing that in camera.”

He continued: “This literally wouldn’t make the top 10 best deleted scenes. We didn’t hold back. We showed them everything. You saw what they wanted to show you…. It was a wild experience. Hate us, live us [sic], the truth or lack there of is in the edit.”

In response to a supportive comment on his post, Evans added: “They filmed us for 3 years. Everything. Imagine your life for 3 years. Every conversation up for debate, with someone else deciding what to show.”

The Independent has approached Fielder for comment.

In a famous, controversial scene in the 2006 mockumentary Borat, Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) and his producer Azamat Bagatov (Ken Davitian) wrestle while completely naked, with their fight taking them through a busy hotel.

In the last week, Evans has been active on social media, answering questions on X about You Can See Everything.

Evans, who has been engaged to Holmes since 2018 and has two children with her, was asked on X to dispel what he believed to be the biggest misconception of the movie, to which he replied, “That I somehow control Liz.”

“Anyone who actually knows her would find that idea hilarious,” the heir to the Evans Hotel Group added. “She’s fiercely independent, strongwilled, and my best friend. We are partners in every sense. We challenge each other, disagree, and face the world together. Her closest friends are also some of my closest friends. If I ever mistreated her, they’d have my head.”

After the movie’s release, some viewers had interpreted that Evans was controlling Holmes. In it, he is shown to be in charge of Holmes’s social media accounts while she is incarcerated; he appears to negotiate a financial deal with A24 without her knowledge, and he reveals he has power of attorney over her.

“We talk about everything, including X. Nothing happened behind her back,” Evans wrote on the topic. “The POA was simply the legal mechanism that allowed me to act on her behalf while she’s incarcerated. It was not a substitute for her consent.”

When asked if he regrets agreeing to the documentary, Evans wrote, “Not at all.”