Amanda Knox spent four years in prison in Italy after being wrongly convicted over the murder of her friend Meredith Kercher. Before being definitively acquitted in 2015, with the eyes of the world’s media on her, she had to draw deep to survive. Since then, Knox has shown resilience, courage and the capacity to forgive.
“When mama was young, mama went to Italy, and somebody hurt her friend. And then mama went to jail, and was sad for a long time, but then mama came home, and fell in love.”
Not the typical story you’d tell a three-year-old, but then little about the past 17 years of Amanda Knox’s life comes anywhere close to ordinary.
The future Knox imagined as she set out on her European adventure almost two decades ago was swept away when, alongside her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, she was convicted of the brutal murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher. Prosecutors claimed the couple, along with Ivory Coast drifter Rudy Guede, had killed Kercher in a sex game gone awry. The media had a field day.
