Amanda Knox reveals the chilling question her three-year-old daughter asks when she tells her a story

Amanda Knox has revealed she felt ‘completely exploited’ by true crime – and says her three-year-old daughter started asking questions about Meredith Kercher’s murder.

The mother-of-two, 37, spoke to journalist Billy Binion about her views on true crime Rodeafter her story became one of the biggest cases in the world in 2007, when she was accused of killing her roommate, Meredith Kercher, while studying abroad in Italy.

Despite DNA misuse, a coerced confession and a lack of credible evidence, Amanda was convicted and spent nearly four years in an Italian prison before being acquitted in 2015.

Amanda, who is now an activist, writer and journalist, revealed that her three-year-old daughter Eureka, who she shares with husband Christopher Robinson, has now started asking questions about her case.

She said: ‘My daughter is three now and she’s just getting to the point where she’s asking questions because you know my past is not a hidden thing and it comes out every now and then.

“She likes it when I tell her a story, so she’ll say tell me a story about Bluey, tell me a story about the little mermaid, sometimes she asks me to do that tell the story of mom going to Italy.

“I just have to say, ‘Well, mom went to Italy and something really bad happened, someone hurt her friend and then mom got hurt too,’ and my daughter says ”why” and I’m like ” Don’t know”.

Following a 2011 film for American television, her 2013 memoir, Waiting to be Heard, and a 2016 Netflix documentary, Amanda is now co-producing an eight-part series for Hulu about her path to freedom.

But Amanda revealed that she did felt ‘completely exploited’ by true crime says victims often have no say in how their stories are told.

She explained, “I wasn’t a true crime person before I became the subject of a true crime phenomenon.

“What I see today, what worries me, is that the worst experiences in people’s lives are not just in the public interest or talked about for reasons of journalistic integrity, they are entertainment and often it is the people who have the most at stake. whether and how those stories are told has absolutely no influence on this.

“In fact, in the history of true crime, the idea that someone at the center of a gruesome story had anything objective or valuable to offer was more or less looked down upon.

“I have rebelled against the idea that someone like me has nothing of value to say or offer when it comes to the way my own story is told.”

Amanda, host of the Labyrinths podcast, said it is “clearly exploitative” for people to tell her story without consulting her.

She said: “I think one of the really dangerous positions that people like me find ourselves in is when content creators come to us and say we’re going to make a podcast, a documentary or a movie based on your story, we” You’re going to do it whether you’re involved or not, so you might as well do it.”

She added that she only agreed to make a Netflix documentary exploring her case because the directors informed her prior to production that the show would only be made if she talked to them.

Amanda, who is now an activist, writer and journalist, revealed that her three-year-old daughter Eureka, who she shares with husband Christopher Robinson, has now started asking questions about her case

Amanda arrives at the court in Perugia, accused of the alleged sex murder of her British flatmate in the Italian university city of Perugia

Amanda was escorted to the Perugia court in Italy by Italian penitentiary police officers in 2008

Meredith was found dead on her bedroom floor in 2007

Speaking about co-producing the new Hulu drama about the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, she said: “I’m in the extremely privileged and rare position of being a subject who has a say and I take that very seriously and I” I’m really proud of the work we do.’

The American writer, who will release a book called Free in March, also discussed the psychological impact of being jailed for something she didn’t do.

She said: ‘It is both horribly tragic and inhumane and utterly banal. A single day will last forever, but then suddenly you blink and months of your life are gone and you think ‘when did that happen’, so the experience of time is very bizarre in prison and it’s one of the harder things to come back into the world with.”

“I would argue that the indignities that so many people face in prison, whether guilty or innocent, do none of us any good.”

Amanda, daughter Eureka and husband Christopher Robinson on a hike together in 2022

More than a decade after the fateful day when Amanda was undeservedly found guilty of murder

Amanda, who was twenty years old at the time, and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were first blamed for the crime and she was sentenced to 26 years in prison.

Amanda (seen in 2011) was brought into the public eye in 2007 after her roommate Meredith Kercher was brutally murdered

Later, a burglar named Rudy Guede was found guilty of Meredith’s murder after his fingerprints were found on her belongings and Amanda and Raffaele’s convictions were overturned.

Elsewhere, Amanda said people have projected “Meredith’s tragedy” onto her because she is the one who lived.

She claimed that people forget that they were both victims of a crime and believe that her pain is somehow lessened because Meredith’s life was taken.

She said: “I was an indirect victim of crime before I became a victim of the criminal justice system, my housemate was raped and murdered by someone who broke into our house, it’s horrifying.

“I have my life, she doesn’t, but does that mean my life is somehow less valuable or that my pain is less because her life was taken from her, no.

“What happened to her should never have happened and what happened to me should never have happened. I mean, my life isn’t held hostage by Meredith’s tragedy.

“People project Meredith’s tragedy onto me because I’m the one who lived and got to go home, but part of me understands because in some way I felt that myself.

“I’ve felt like me and Meredith both arrived in Perugia to do the exact same thing and live in the exact same house and we’re two sides of the same coin and fate has turned that coin around and landed the way it landed, and so a part of me feels that I carry her spirit within me.

“I would love to visit her grave, but I won’t feel comfortable there until her family is okay with me doing so.”

Meredith’s real killer was eventually identified as Rudy Guede, from Ivory Coast, after his DNA was found on her body.

He was sentenced to 16 years before being released in 2021, as he only had to serve 13 years due to ‘good behavior’.

Amanda is now 37 and has two children. She spends her time advocating for criminal justice reform and campaigning against wrongful convictions.

The new series is co-produced by Monica Lewinsky, who became known for her affair with then US President Bill Clinton – a story that Disney also decided to turn into a television drama.

Show bosses say the series tells the “true story of how Amanda Knox was wrongly convicted of the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher and her 16-year odyssey to free herself.”