then sunny got up and he basically called out john carreyrou for being a slanderous slimy kind of guy saying it. >> let's not let the facts get in the way of the story! >> sorry john. >> i thought it was crazy, but i didn't dwell on it too much because i was in the heat of, you know, reporting more stories and reporting the fallout. >> were you buying it? >> at the time, yeah. when you're really committed to something you'll do whatever you need to do believe it. >> they really believed that the world, particularly the press, was out to get her. she was very nixon-like in that sense. she had her enemies list. >> reporter: elizabeth went on cnn to make excuses why patient results were off. >> there's a man that was suggesting the lab results from theranos weren't correct and he had a heart 'm not the lab direy and this is as serious as it gets. >> what i know is i put the best people together to investigate every aspect of this. i know they're doing that. >> reporter: but elizabeth's empire began tumbling down in a matter of months. walgreens halted plans to open any new wellness cente