Amanda Knox revealed that her young daughter has already begun quizzing her about her time in an Italian prison after her wrongful conviction of brutally murdering her college roommate, Meredith Kercher.
“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 occasionally it comes up,” Knox, 37, said while discussing true crime television with ReasonTV journalist Billy Brinton on Thursday.
“She likes it when I tell her a story so she’ll be like, ‘Tell me a story about Bluey, tell me a story about the Little Mermaid’ — sometimes she asks me to ‘Tell the story of Mama going to Italy,” she continued of her four years behind bars.
“I just have to say, ‘Well, Mama went to Italy and something really, really bad happened — someone hurt her friend and then then Mama was hurt too,’” she said.
“And my daughter says ‘why?’ and I’m like ‘I don’t know.’”
Knox, now a mother of two, said she feels “utterly exploited” by true crime — even though she’s written a memoir, helped make a Netflix documentary and is now co-producing an eight-part series for Hulu.
She said she was never a true crime fan until she “became the subject of a true crime phenomenon.”
The Seattle native said she’s troubled “that the worst experiences of people’s lives are not just in the public interest or are talked about for the sake of, you know, journalistic integrity — it’s entertainment and so often the people who have the most at stake in whether and how those stories are told have absolutely no say about it.”
She said she agreed to the Netflix documentary only after the directors told her that the show would only be made if she spoke to them.
She is co-producing her new Hulu series, “Blue Moon,” which she recognized is an “extremely privileged and rare position of being a subject who has a say and I’m taking that very seriously and I’m really proud of the work we’re doing.”
Knox has remained in the public eye since she and then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were arrested for killing Kercher, Knox’s 21-year-old British roommate who was fatally stabbed 47 times in the town of Perugia in November 2007.
The murder and made international headlines — as did the legal rollercoaster that followed over the next eight years.
Knox was convicted of slaying Kercher despite a lack of evidence and a coerced confession. She served four years in prison before she was freed in October 2011 after an appeals court overturned the initial guilty verdict in the murder case.
She and Sollecito were definitely exonerated by Italy’s highest court in 2015 after two more verdict flip-flops.
This summer, Knox was re-convicted of slander for falsely accusing her boss, Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba, of killing Kercher years ago.
She was sentenced to three years in prison in June — but was not subject to any additional jailtime because it counts as time already served.