
At one point, I tell her that I heard Jennifer Lawrence had pulled out of portraying her in a movie.

Somewhere along the way, Holmes said that the person (whoever that is) got lost. It had everything: the black turtlenecks, the Kabuki red lipstick, the green juices, the dancing to Lil Wayne. In Holmes, we found an all-you-can-eat buffet. As the adage goes, if you don’t feed the press, we feed on you. Holmes has not spoken to the media since 2016, when her legal team advised she go quiet. “It would be the kind of things we’re doing now because they’re perfect. “How would you spend your time if you didn’t know how much time you had left?” Holmes said, her impending prison report date top of mind, perhaps even more so given that we were surrounded by animals behind bars.

But William especially loves the San Diego Zoo, which is why, on a recent Thursday afternoon, I found myself in the surreal situation of trying to make sense of Holmes’ version of her rise and fall, while watching a restless cheetah and buying a gorilla T-shirt at the gift shop. William enjoys playing in the sand, “Little Blue Truck” and dumplings and, like his mom, already speaks some Mandarin. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Timesīilly Evans, Holmes’ partner and the father of their two young children, pushes a stroller with the couple’s 20-month-old son, William.
