‘Actually, I Didn’t Do It’

Amanda Knox was acquitted in 2011 of the 2007 murder of her roommate after spending four years in an Italian prison cell
On April 9, Knox claimed she had an exchange with police at a Seattle airport about her past imprisonment and her current work
Knox had been boarding a flight to Dublin while promoting her new memoir, Free: My Search for Meaning

Amanda Knox — who was acquitted in 2011 of the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher, after spending four years in an Italian prison cell — is claiming she recently had an exchange with police at an airport about her past imprisonment and her current work.

Knox shared in a series of posts on X that she had been boarding a flight to Dublin from an airport in Seattle in order to promote her new memoir, Free: My Search for Meaning, when she was stopped by cops.

She claimed that they asked her about where she was traveling and what she planned to do once she got to Ireland. In response, she told them that she was going to be “interviewed” on TV for her new book, which was about “reintegrating into society after prison.”

Knox said she was then asked, “What did you do to end up [in] prison?” to which she replied, “Actually, I didn’t do it.” When police asked her how long she was in prison for, she said she was there for “four years until I was found innocent.”

“That long? You probably don’t like police that much,” one officer allegedly told her, and she replied, “They make [me] uncomfortable.”

Knox said around this time, about 40 people had already walked past her as she was still “stuck on the jet bridge” answering questions from police at the airport.

The cops then allegedly asked her about “writing books” and if that was how she made “a living.” Knox said she told them that she also had a podcast — referring to Labyrinths with Amanda Knox.

When asked what the podcast was about, Knox responded, “A lot of things,” including “coercive police interview methods.” She said that after she told the cops this, they let her proceed, allegedly saying, “Safe trip.”

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Knox shared additional information about the interaction in the comments, noting the location and sharing that the cops gave “no reason” for stopping her and asking questions. However, she didn’t share when the incident happened and if anything happened prior to or after.

Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were accused in 2007 of murdering Kercher, who was found dead in the home they shared in Perugia, Italy. After almost two years in jail and an 11-month trial, an Italian jury found Knox and Sollecito guilty of killing Kercher, and the pair were sentenced to 26 and 25 years, respectively, in prison.

However, in 2011, an appeals court overturned the most serious charges against Knox, stating in her second trial that there had been a mishandling of DNA evidence in the case. The case was tried again, and Knox was again found guilty of murdering Kercher, but it was again overturned after Italy’s highest court said there were “glaring errors” in the investigation.

Rudy Guede, who was renting out a section of the same home as Knox and Kercher, was found guilty of murder and sexual assault and sentenced to 30 years in a separate 2008 trial.

In her new memoir, Knox tells the story of life after prison and her ongoing fight to prove her innocence. She said that, despite being declared innocent and freed, she was never allowed to fully live her life again.

“There’s always this subtext, like ‘Look at Amanda living her life while Meredith is dead,’ ” she said. “Any expression of life in my life is seen as an offense to the memory of my friend who got murdered.”

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