14 DAY TRIAL // Amanda Knox spent 4 years in an Italian prison for a crime she still insists she did not commit even though the case is now being retrialed and the not guilty verdict might be overturned. In her first interview ever, she talks about how she’s still crippled by anxiety attacks.
Amanda is now back to her former life, to the one she had before the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy, but nothing ever will be the same again.
She sat down for her first interview since the prison ordeal with People magazine. The online preview offers a quote about how she’s still not over the trauma, with the full interview coming out with the print issue.
“During an emotional, candid and wide-ranging interview, which took place in her mother's Seattle home over several days, Knox, 25, details her odyssey from carefree American college student in Perugia, Italy, to convicted murderer confined to a cell for four years for allegedly killing her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher,” People writes.
Knox was initially found guilty of murder and then the verdict was overturned and she was sent home, but not before she spent 4 years in prison.
“When Meredith was murdered and I was arrested, it was so shocking. It was paralyzing. Everything toppled,” she says.
Even today, the mere memory of all those years is enough to send her over the edge.
“Things creep up on me and all of a sudden I'm overwhelmed by the feeling of helplessness and that desperation and fear to even hope,” Knox says of the severe anxiety attacks she still has.
“Just that can make my heart race and makes me paralyzed until I can breathe it away,” she adds.
These days, Knox is going to school and going out with a former flame.
She is also getting ready to have her story out to the public, with her book “Waiting to Be Heard” scheduled to arrive on bookshelves on April 30.