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Monster of Florence is a great book, and yes, the prosecutor who got convicted of abuse of office for his handling of that cold case is the same prosecutor who wrongly convicted me, the same one I went back to Italy to meet face to face.
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I'm executive producing it!
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Jake has supported my work. I have no issue with it.
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I'm unaware of this. Link?
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It's surreal for me too.
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Thank you!
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Still blaming me.
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Very.
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Yes!
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Both
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Unfortunately, no.
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Yes...and thank you!
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You can see more of my set on IG. www.instagram.com/reel/DKVIcp4...
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Thanks, I reported
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Out of date. An earlier working title.
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...It was a crescendo. The sexual part has always been a big problem. I cried, I felt bad, I thought it was my fault but a friend told me that those things were not normal”.
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...He convinced me that in a relationship some things were normal and I believed him because I had no previous relationships. Then the pushing began, the spitting during arguments, but the major violence was during sex...
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"Rudy is a violent person, I only realized it afterwards, unfortunately, and it took me a long time to understand that he manipulated me and hurt me. Initially the violence was minor...
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Guede “mistreated” his ex-girlfriend..."threatening to commit suicide in the event of the relationship ending, sending her continuous text messages, subjecting her to humiliating and painful sexual intercourse against her will”.
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I encourage you to watch it!
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Cops are cops.
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Glad she is doing that work. At the moment, the best thing I can point her to is my podcast miniseries Blood Money: the History and Ethics of True Crime. Hope it's helpful.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...
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Glad you got that!
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Nor will I always understand them. But I don't have to understand them to be there for them. I owe my mom my life, and I can't ever repay her. All I can do is pay it forward to my own kids, with her beside me.
Happy Mother's Day!
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They will become who they will become, because of and in spite of my influence. They will suffer, from their own choices and from the mistakes and malice of others, and I won't be able to take away their pain.
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She didn't have to understand to support me. She was there for me, even as I did something that was extremely risky--both legally and emotionally. It taught me something about motherhood. I can't control my own children.
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There's a lot more to say about this journey--and you can read my book, FREE, if you're interested--but this about my mom. She came along on that journey, even though she didn't understand it, and even though she could never forgive the man who wrongly imprisoned her daughter.
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As a child, I didn't know that kindness was an incredible strength. My mom hadn't just urged me to be kind, but in doing so, she had urged me to be strong. To be fearless. To walk up to the scariest thing I could imagine, and extend a hand.
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I would have to walk into that room with an olive branch. I would have to be kind to him, and give him every benefit of the doubt that he'd never given me. In doing so, I realized that if I could be kind to him, I was unstoppable--regardless of my fear and lingering trauma.
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And the less I would understand why this had happened to me. That meant, if I wanted to connect with him, human to human, to give him a chance to see the real me, I would have to strive to see the real him.
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I wanted to understand how he could have caused so much harm even while intending to deliver justice and bring closure to Meredith's grieving family. And I realized that the more I judged him, the less I would understand him.
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I took that heart more than she realized. After being so radically dehumanized by my proseuctor, I knew I never wanted to treat another human being the way I was treated. I wanted to understand him, to understand why he had looked at me and seen a monster.
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She didn't understand why I wanted to meet him. But it was actually her own doing. When I was very young, she had once told me: "Amanda, of all the things I hope for you, that you be smart, or successful, what I hope most is that you'll be kind."
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He was also the man who sent her daughter to prison and forever branded her as a sexual deviant and murderer. My mom didn't try to stop me. But she said, "You're never setting foot in Italy again without me!"
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I also know that no matter how independent she gets, I'll never stop wanting to protect her, because my mom has never stopped wanting to protect me. So I KNEW what a big deal it was for me to tell my mom that I wanted to go back to Italy to meet the man who sent me to prison.
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proud, but also a little sad, I'm sure. I now know the strange feeling of pride and ache when I see my own daughter take those incremental steps of independence, needing me just a bit less than she did the day before.