Amanda Knox has rarely been far from the public eye, or, as she puts it, “global vilification.”
Convicted in 2007 of the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, Knox became the subject of a global media frenzy. What followed was a yearslong tabloid obsession with her—her sexual history, her high school nickname “Foxy Knoxy,” and lurid prosecution theory that Kercher was killed during a Satanic sexual orgy.
Knox, now 38, is reclaiming her narrative with a second autobiography released in May and a new eight-part Hulu drama series launching August 20. In a wide-ranging, no-holds-barred interview with Newsweek, Knox—who was twice convicted and twice acquitted of murder, and served nearly four years in prison—speaks candidly about her hope to reconcile with the Kercher family. She says she believes they could find her new book and TV series “healing.”
“I hope that they will recognize the value in my attempt at revealing the truth of what happened to Meredith in my revealing of the truth of what happened to me,” she says.
Adversary or Ally? Knox’s Complicated Bond With Her Prosecutor
Knox has struck up a complex friendship with Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor in her case. He developed the unfounded theory that Kercher was killed by Knox, her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede, from the Ivory Coast, in a drug-fueled sex orgy gone wrong.
Knox and Mignini began regular correspondence in 2019 and met up in 2022. “Some people say to me, ‘Is he your friend?’ And I don’t really know how to answer that question…. He’s my perpetrator and he is someone who cares about me,” she explains.
Despite struggling with a lot of anger at the narrative Mignini concocted to try and secure her conviction, she says she wanted to understand why he hurt her. “An unexpected consequence of putting myself in that position is that the term adversary became complicated by other feelings and interactions with this fully fleshed-out human being,” she says.
Knox’s mother, Edda Mellas, was not supportive of the meeting. But Knox said: ”I very much have a relationship with my prosecutor where I do not let him off the hook. But I also… embrace his humanity and I am able to see him for whatever good intentions he might have had even in the midst of committing grievous harm.”
Knox adds that she thought the relationship was more meaningful to him than her, and that he feels guilt for what…
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