Amanda Knox Claims Her Three-Year-Old Daughter Is Already Asking Her About ‘When Mom Went To Italy’

Amanda Knox claims that despite her young age, her three-year-old daughter is already asking her about Meredith Kercher’s murder.

In a new podcast interview, the 37-year-old also says that she, too, is a victim — and that her life is “no less valuable” than Kercher’s, and that her pain is no less acute.

The mother-of-two, 37, says she has been ‘exploited’ by true crime documentaries and podcasts about the infamous case.

She spoke with journalist Billy Binion about her views on true crime Rodeand claimed that the case is so well known that even her toddler Eureka asks her about it.

Amanda was convicted and spent almost four years in an Italian prison before being acquitted in 2015.

Eureka, who she shares with husband Christopher Robinson, has now started asking questions about her case, she says.

“My daughter is three now and she’s just getting to the point where she’s asking questions because you know my past is not a hidden thing and it comes up every now and then.

“She likes it when I tell her a story, so she’ll say tell me a story about Bluey, tell me a story about the little mermaid, sometimes she asks me to do that tell the story of mom going to Italy.

Amanda Knox says she feels ‘exploited’ by true crime, and says her daughter even asks her about the case despite being only three

Amanda with her three-year-old daughter Eureka

Meredith was found dead on her bedroom floor in 2007

“I just have to say, ‘Well, Mom went to Italy and something really bad happened, someone hurt her friend and then Mom got hurt too,’ and my daughter says ‘why’ and I’m like ‘ ‘ Don’t know”.

Following a 2011 film for American television, her 2013 memoir, Waiting to be Heard, and a 2016 Netflix documentary, Amanda is now co-producing an eight-part series for Hulu about her path to freedom.

However, she says she feels it ‘completely exploited’ by versions of the story for which she was not consulted.

Meredith Kercher’s family previously spoke out about the production, calling it “difficult to understand” what purpose the series serves.

“Meredith will always be remembered for her own struggle for life, and yet her love and personality continue to shine in her absence.

“We will feel this indescribable emptiness forever, but we live with dignity according to Meredith standards,” they said in a statement earlier this month.

Knox insists she too is a victim.

‘I was an indirect victim of a crime before I became a victim of the criminal justice system, my housemate was raped and murdered by someone who broke into our house, that is horrific.

“I have my life, she doesn’t, but does that mean my life is somehow less valuable or that my pain is less because her life was taken from her, no,” she said.

“What happened to her should never have happened and what happened to me should never have happened. I mean, my life isn’t held hostage by Meredith’s tragedy.

“People project Meredith’s tragedy onto me because I’m the one who lived and got to go home, but part of me understands because in some way I felt it myself.

“I’ve felt like me and Meredith both arrived in Perugia to do the exact same thing and live in the exact same house and we’re two sides of the same coin and fate has turned that coin around and landed the way it landed, and so part of me feels that I carry her spirit within me.

“I would love to visit her grave, but I don’t feel comfortable doing so until her family is okay with me doing so.”

Amanda arrives at the court in Perugia, accused of the alleged sex murder of her British flatmate in the Italian university city of Perugia

She continued, “I wasn’t a true crime person before I became the subject of a true crime phenomenon.

“What I see today, what worries me, is that the worst experiences in people’s lives are not just in the public interest or talked about for reasons of journalistic integrity, they are entertainment and often it is the people who have the most at stake. whether and how those stories are told has absolutely no influence on this.

“In fact, in the history of true crime, the idea that someone at the center of a gruesome story had anything objective or valuable to offer was more or less looked down upon.

“I have rebelled against the idea that someone like me has nothing of value to say or offer when it comes to the way my own story is told.”

Amanda, host of the Labyrinths podcast, claims it is “clearly exploitative” for people to tell her story without consulting her.

“I think one of the really dangerous positions that people like me find ourselves in is when content creators come to us and say we’re going to make a podcast or a documentary or a movie based on your story. Whether you’re involved or not, you might as well do it.’

She added that she only agreed to make a Netflix documentary exploring her case because the directors informed her prior to production that the show would only be made if she talked to them.

Speaking about co-producing the new Hulu drama about the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, she said: “I’m in the extremely privileged and rare position of being a subject who has a say and I take that very seriously and I” I’m really proud of the work we do.’

Amanda, daughter Eureka and husband Christopher Robinson on a hike together in 2022

Amanda, who was twenty years old at the time, and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were first blamed for the crime and she was sentenced to 26 years in prison.

Later, a burglar named Rudy Guede was found guilty of Meredith’s murder after his fingerprints were found on her belongings and Amanda and Raffaele’s convictions were overturned.

In the podcast, Knox also described the psychological impact of captivity.

‘It is both horribly tragic and inhumane and completely banal.

‘A single day will last forever, but then suddenly you blink your eyes and months of your life are gone and you think ‘when did that happen’, so the experience of time is very bizarre in prison and it’s one of the harder things to come back into the world with.”

“I would argue that the indignities that so many people face in prison, whether guilty or innocent, do none of us any good.”

Rudy Guede was convicted of Meredith’s murder in 2008.

He was released from prison in 2021 after serving 13 years of a 16-year sentence.