Amanda Knox Says 3-Year-Old Daughter Asks About Stories From Italy

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Amanda Knox knew she couldn’t permanently shield her children from her past, but her three-year-old daughter is already asking questions.

Thirteen years after she was released from an Italian prison after being wrongfully incarcerated for nearly four years, she told ReasonTV that her daughter asks for stories about her time in Italy.

“She likes it when I tell her a story so she’ll be like, ‘Tell me a story about Bluey, tell me a story about the Little Mermaid’ — sometimes she asks me to ‘Tell the story of Mama going to Italy,” she said.

“I just have to say, ‘Well, Mama went to Italy and something really, really bad happened — someone hurt her friend and then Mama was hurt too,’” she continued.

“And my daughter says ‘why?’ and I’m like ‘I don’t know,” she said.

Knox, now 37, was arrested in 2007 along with then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of her roommate, ​​Meredith Kercher. Their convictions were eventually overturned when an appeals court determined there was a lack of evidence and that Knox’s confession had been coerced.

Rudy Guede was later convicted of Kercher’s murder after his DNA and fingerprints were found at the crime scene. He was released in prison in 2021.

Knox, now a mother of two, added that as the subject of true crime documentaries and her own memoir, she feels “utterly exploited” by the genre.

“That the worst experiences of people’s lives are not just in the public interest or are talked about for the sake of, you know, journalistic integrity — it’s entertainment and so often the people who have the most at stake in whether and how those stories are told have absolutely no say about it,” she explained.

Knox added that she consented to the 2016 Netflix documentary Amanda Knox only after she was informed that the film would not be made unless she participated.

Despite her acquittal, Knox has had more run-ins with the Italian legal system since then. She was convicted of slander in 2009 after falsely accusing her former employer Patrick Lumumba of the murder. She was reconvicted in 2024 and sentenced to three years in prison, but did not have to serve additional time as her four years behind bars count as time served.

Knox is now executive producing a Hulu series about her ordeal, titled Blue Moon. The series has been a source of controversy in Perugia, the city where the murder occurred and where filming has already taken place. Local residents have put up banners reading “Rispetto per Meredith” (“Respect for Meredith”), according to Variety, leading to a public apology from Perugia mayor Vittoria Ferdinandi for authorizing the shoot.