In a powerful new interview with ABC News, Amanda shares her biggest fears — and why she’s terrified about her upcoming re-trial.
After being convicted of murdering her roommate in 2007, then acquitted in 2011, Amanda Knox is now facing a re-trial to determine whether or not she killed Meredith Kercher in Italy. Visibly falling to pieces, Amanda spoke with Diane Sawyer in an interview which aired April 30 on ABC — and the 25-year-old revealed what she fears most about facing her accusers again.
Amanda Knox’s Interview With Diane Sawyer: What She Revealed
Amanda revealed that what happened to her, being jailed for the murder of her former roommate, “could have happened to anyone.” Being falsely accused of murder was “surreal” she said, but added that the most painful part was what she experienced while inside the courtroom when an Italian court decided she needed to stand trial again.
“I felt like after crawling through a field of barbed wire and finally reaching what I thought was the end, it just turned out that it was the horizon,” Amanda told Diane. “And I had another field of barbed wire that I had ahead of me to crawl through.”
She also revealed that during the murder investigation, she was interrogated to the point of admitting a false confession. The authorities told her she would never see her family again, and that her recollection of the night Meredith died was “wrong.” So in court, it was misconstrued as confessing to the crime.
Amanda Knox Says Labeling Her a Devil Is ‘Wrong’
She also admitted that being attacked in the media was harsh, but being called vicious names in court was the most difficult part.
“I was in the courtroom when they were calling me a devil,” she told Diane. “It’s one thing to be called certain things in the media, and it’s another thing to be sitting in a courtroom fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil. For all intents and purposes I was a murderer, whether I was or not. I had to live with the idea that that would be my life,” she said.
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