Amanda Knox says she is GRATEFUL she was wrongly convicted of Meredith Kercher's murder - because it helped her 'know herself' better

Amanda Knox has insisted successful a caller interrogation she really feels gratitude for being wrongly convicted of murdering pupil flatmate Meredith Kercher. 

The US writer and broadcaster, 37, who served 4 years successful an Italian situation for the British student's killing, made the claims portion promoting her caller memoir - saying she present feels she knows herself better. 

Ms Kercher, a 21-year-old from Coulsdon successful southbound London, was recovered stabbed to decease successful her chamber astatine the flat she shared with Ms Knox successful the Italian hilltop municipality of Perugia connected November 2 2007.

American pupil Ms Knox, 20 astatine the time, and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who was 23, were arrested 4 days aboriginal and went connected to beryllium convicted astatine proceedings twice.

Both convictions were overturned owed to a deficiency of immoderate grounds linking them to the crime and the brace were yet exonerated by Italy’s highest tribunal successful 2015.

Police besides arrested Rudy Guede, who ran a section barroom - and his bloody fingerprints and DNA recovered astatine the transgression country ensured his condemnation for murder, earlier helium served 14 years of a 30-year situation condemnation past was freed successful 2021.

Ms Knox has present written a caller memoir, called Free: My Search for Meaning, that she has been publicising. 

And she opened up astir her feelings astir her experiences connected erstwhile paper exertion Andy Coulson's Crisis, What Crisis? podcast.

He highlighted a operation successful her caller publication saying: 'I wouldn't privation my wrongful condemnation connected anyone, but nor would I commercialized it for the world.'

Ms Knox expanded further by quoting past Roman philosopher Seneca, arsenic she replied: 'I americium who I americium contiguous due to the fact that of what I went through.

'And there's this large stoic saying by Seneca wherever helium says, fundamentally paraphrasing, "I person pity for you if you person ne'er gone done misfortune, due to the fact that you bash not cognize what you are susceptible of".

'And truthful I cognize arsenic a effect of having gone done this experience, some my top weaknesses and my top strengths.

'I cognize myself successful a mode that I would not person different been capable to cognize myself. And for that, I americium grateful.'

Ms Knox besides told however she felt fortunate to beryllium alive, crediting her then-relationship with Mr Sollecito for being distant from her pupil spot erstwhile Guede broke successful and attacked her flatmate.

She said: 'I'm grateful to beryllium live contiguous because, you know, if I had not met my astatine the clip fellow and past yet co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito 5 days earlier this transgression occurred, I would person been location erstwhile this idiosyncratic broke into our location and I mightiness person been raped and murdered too.

'So the precise information that I'm live contiguous to archer the tale, that I survived my ain survey overseas is simply a effect of immoderate fluke luck. 

'And the information that I spent 4 years successful situation alternatively of 40 - I cognize radical who person spent longer successful situation arsenic an guiltless idiosyncratic than I person been alive.

'The information that I get to person a household and person children erstwhile truthful galore women who are wrongly convicted travel retired and it's excessively precocious and they mislaid that opportunity.'

She met her now-husband Christopher Robinson successful 2015 and they person 2 children - girl Eureka, calved successful 2021, and lad Echo, calved successful September 2023. 

Ms Knox added: 'There are truthful galore things that I person that astatine 1 constituent successful my beingness I thought I had mislaid - and conscionable the acquisition of gratitude is benignant of overwhelming

'It's not thing that I person to punctual myself of erstwhile I'm feeling down - it's precise contiguous successful my life.

'And that's different crushed to consciousness grateful, that I conscionable person the benignant of disposition that makes feeling gratitude for what I person successful my beingness casual for maine - that is not needfully casual for different people.'

Ms Kercher's household and their lawyers person been captious of Ms Knox and she acknowledged their antipathy - portion besides praising her pupil friend.

Ms Knox told the podcast: 'This was a idiosyncratic I knew, who was benignant to me, who I had pizza with and who I went dancing with and baked cookies with. And she was a very, precise beauteous person.'

A dedication successful the caller publication states: 'To Meredith, remainder successful peace, whose bequest I volition ne'er halt honouring, and her family, due to the fact that I inactive anticipation we tin stock our grief 1 day.'

Ms Knox said successful the Crisis, What Crisis? podcast interrogation astir Ms Kercher's family: 'I don't push. I've not pursued aggressively a narration with them, due to the fact that I cognize that they person to face a batch of trauma conscionable to adjacent deliberation astir me, overmuch little person a narration with maine oregon pass with maine oregon conscionable with me.

'So I effort to beryllium precise delicate to that. At the aforesaid clip though, the time that Rudy Guede broke into our location and raped and murdered Meredith, each of our lives were destroyed, excavation too, and we person a batch much successful communal than I deliberation they realise.

'And I blasted the prosecution and the media and particularly their attorney, who I deliberation has been highly irresponsible, for making it intolerable for that benignant of transportation to happen.'

Ms Knox has antecedently released a bestselling memoir called Waiting to Be Heard, successful 2013, and 5 years aboriginal started hosting a tv bid which examined the 'gendered quality of nationalist shaming'.

A Netflix bid was besides released successful 2016 telling her communicative and she has been moving connected an upcoming show, Blue Moon, with Monica Lewinksy, to aerial connected Hulu.

Ms Knox described successful her latest podcast quality however she has tried to explicate her situation past successful an 'age-appropriate' mode to her three-year-old daughter. 

She said: 'One of those astonishing consequences of sharing your communicative is however idiosyncratic responds - and my girl responds astir similar I've told her a fairytale.

'And she'll privation to play unreal erstwhile mommy goes to Italy. So erstwhile we spell to the park, if there's bars somewhere, she'll get down the bars and beryllium like, "Look, I'm mommy. Let maine out".'

Earlier this twelvemonth Ms Knox broke down successful tears aft her condemnation of slandering her erstwhile brag was upheld by Italy's highest court.

She was recovered blameworthy of slander aft she wrongly accused her then-boss Patrick Lumumba of murdering Ms Kercher - and successful January lost her entreaty to person the slander complaint overturned, leaving her with a imperishable transgression grounds successful Italy.

Ms Knox, who did not be tribunal but followed the proceeding from the US, shared a video of herself weeping aft the condemnation was upheld, saying it was 'disappointing' that she volition person a 'criminal grounds everlastingly for thing I didn't do'. 

Her defence squad said she lone accused Lumumba, a Congolese antheral who employed her astatine a barroom successful Perugia, during a agelong nighttime of questioning and nether unit from police, who they said fed her mendacious information.

The European Court of Human Rights recovered that the constabulary deprived her of a lawyer and provided a translator who acted much arsenic a mediator.

Reached by telephone pursuing the latest tribunal determination successful January, Mr Lumumba said helium was satisfied with the verdict.

He added: 'Amanda was wrong. This verdict has to travel her for the remainder of her life.'

In March this twelvemonth Ms Knox revealed details astir her improbable relationship with the Italian authoritative who convicted her of murder - revealing she sees it arsenic a signifier of 'therapy' that helps the different consciousness 'absolved'.

Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini and Knox forged a enslaved successful the years aft her condemnation was overturned, with the lawyer stating antecedently helium present has a 'good opinion' of her.

The erstwhile adversaries person grown adjacent contempt Mr Mignini believing Knox was astatine the country of the transgression and declaring that Ms Kercher 'did not get justice'. 

Ms Knox's correspondence with Mr Mignini began erstwhile she wrote him letters, delivered by go-between clergyman Don Saulo Scarabattoli, earlier moving to the messaging level WhatsApp and yet gathering again. 

They present stock idiosyncratic news, household photographs and nonstop vacation greetings to each other, aft processing a friendship.

Ms Knox told the Guardian: 'As overmuch arsenic I privation him to absolve me, I deliberation helium wants maine to absolve him more.

'The 1 clip successful my beingness wherever I felt unstoppable was erstwhile I realised that it wasn't astir what I was going to get from him, it was astir what I was going to springiness him.'