Amanda Knox drops truth bomb about wrongful conviction

Amanda Knox, an American journalist, author, and activist, has opened up about her life in prison.

For the unversed, in 2007, Knox was studying in Italy when she was accused of killing her roommate, Meredith Kercher.

When the investigation progressed, the lead prosecutor claimed that it was part of “a bizarre s**** game gone wrong.”

Even though there were problems with the DNA, the confession was forced, and no solid evidence was present, Knox was still found guilty.

She spent almost four years in an Italian prison before being cleared of the crime in 2015, making her wrongful conviction a huge media event that scrutinised every detail of her life.

Fast forward to March 2024, Hulu announced a limited series about Knox’s story that would consist of eight episodes.

However, in her biographical series, Knox is serving as an executive producer, along with Monica Lewinsky.

Now, in the latest episode of her podcast Labyrinths, which she hosts with Christopher Robinson, Knox called her imprisonment “the single victim fallacy.”

Her co-host threw her a question by asking, “What would you say to someone currently wrongfully imprisoned, facing a situation similar to yours?”

Replying to his question, the 37-year-old activist quipped, “I never want people to think that you can rely on the truth ultimately coming out. That is not something that we can count on necessarily. I can’t promise that justice will ultimately result in any of these cases.”

The author of Free: My Search for Meaning explained, “There’s no telling how it’s going to work out. There’s a lot of factors that go into that. There’s luck. There’s the right people showing up at the right time. There’s the evidence coming through. There’s technology that becomes available. All of that plays into whether or not an innocent person is going to get out of prison and then successfully reintegrate into society.”

“The thing that they always need to know, though, is it is entirely up to them to figure out how to be their best selves in these circumstances. That is their power, and no one can take that away from them,” Knox concluded by saying.

It is pertinent to mention that there is no information regarding the release date of the Amanda Knox series, and the streaming platform has not even revealed the title yet.