Amanda Seyfried on Elizabeth Holmes’s 11-Year Prison Sentence: "It's Fair"

Yesterday, Elizabeth Holmes reported to a minimum-security prison outside Houston, Texas to begin her 11-year sentence. Last year, the ex-Theranos founder was found guilty of four courts of wire fraud and conspiracy.

Her rise and downfall was dramatized in The Dropout, a Hulu limited series starring Amanda Seyfried as Holmes. Seyfried, on Good Morning America promoting a new show The Crowded Room, was asked about Holmes's sentence.

"I feel for those kids. Those two kids. They’re hanging in the balance here. As a parent, I’m just like… As a mom, I’m just like — I don’t know," Seyfried said. "Life's not fair. But in a lot of ways, it’s fair for her, in particular."

Seyfried is referencing the fact that Holmes has two children with husband Billy Evans, and sought to delay her sentence because of her young children. Her initial criminal trial was delayed because of her first pregnancy. In fact, The Dropout ended up filming while the trial was ongoing.

The actress never met Holmes, and didn't want to. "She could sell me sand!" Seyfried joked on the subject of Holmes's ability to con people. "She was incredible at it. I mean, if I ever met her—that was one of the reasons I didn't want to meet her, because I knew she had a way about her. I think even if you question things, and there were obviously people who did question things, she would always deflect anything she didn’t know with something she did know."

Holmes said in an interview in the New York Times that Seyfried (and Jennifer Lawrence, who was set to portray her in a film) are "not playing me. They're playing a character I created."

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