Amanda Knox Revealed How Everything She Loved Was ‘Taken Away’ From Her After She Was Convicted for Meredith Kercher’s Murder
Amanda Knox‘s story is finally being brought to the small screens by the woman herself. The author revealed her true intentions in making a Hulu series, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, about her experiences in the notorious case.
In 2007, she was accused and convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher while they were studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. Knox and her boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito, were found guilty of murder in 2009, but both were exonerated by the Italian Supreme Court in 2015. She served four years in prison before being released in 2011.
Rudy Guede was also accused of murdering Kercher after she invited him over to their shared home. Knox wasn’t home at the time of the murder and told police that she had returned home earlier that morning after spending the night at Sollecito’s when she saw blood on the bathroom floor. Guede fled the scene, but was ultimately arrested and convicted. He was released in December 2020 after serving 13 years in prison.
Where is Amanda Knox now?
Amanda Knox is currently living in Seattle with her husband, Christopher Robinson, and their two children: Echo, 4, and Eureka, 2. She currently hosts the podcast Hard Knox. She described the true-crime show as “a space to think out loud about what hardship teaches us, what justice demands of us, and how we live with what we can’t undo.”
In 2023, Knox revealed that she was able to forgive her prosecutor Dr. Giuliano Mignini who had accused her of being a cold-blooded murderer and a sexual deviant during the case. “Forgiveness is a natural consequence of realizing how fragile and precious another human is,” she told People in March 2025. “I immediately sort of stepped into mom mode, and I was like, ‘I’m not just forgiving you. I’m holding you. I care about you.’ And that changed everything.”
Knox teamed up with Monica Lewinsky after the latter read her New York Times interview about wanting to take her memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, to the screen. “She had a lot of advice about reclaiming your voice and your narrative,” Knox told The Hollywood Reporter. “That ended up being a turning point for me.”
“We spent three years poring through transcripts and newspaper accounts and legal documents, literally, tens of thousands of pages,” Lewinsky told the outlet. “It was vital to get all the facts right. [Showrunner] KJ [Steinberg] ran an incredible room; the writers brought their own experiences that resonated with Amanda’s story. We wanted to make something resonant and meaningful — not something easy and trite.”
The show stars Grace van Patten as Knox and chronicles her life from as a college student to return to Italy in 2022.
Lewinsky and Knox were meticulous about their goals for the show and wanted to welcome audiences from all walks of life. “This show will draw people who are into true crime as well as people who are averse to it,” Knox explained. “We push back against the unethical parts of it: scandalmongering, black-and-white narratives, turning people into caricatures for a moral argument. The best true crime is when people genuinely care about the worst experiences of other people’s lives and want to do right by them — to understand how human perfect storms happen, to untangle them, and to help.”
On the Honestly podcast with Bari Weiss, Knox reflected on life after prison. “Now, when I experience joy, I don’t just experience joy,” she said. “I experience grief alongside joy because I am very aware of how fragile and impermanent everything is. Be good—be even happy—with the knowledge that everything you love will ultimately be taken away from you, that everything that you are will ultimately crumble. And that’s okay. That’s even good. Because what it means is that the having it now means so, so much.”
