Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in an Italian prison after being accused of murdering his roommate while studying abroad.
Italy’s Supreme Court murdered him in 2015, a 37-year-old.
Knox, his book “Free: I’m looking for meaning” Recently published, telling Fox News numbers that she encourages students to study and travel abroad. But she also warned of the risk of not staying close to her loved ones when she was away from home.
Amanda Knox is a married mother who has been traveling to Italy since then. (Lucian Notson)
“I think it’s a life-changing experience,” Knox said of studying abroad. “I think it’s better for us to interact with other cultures and other people and walk out of our comfort zone.”
She stressed: “I always recommend something to anyone, anyone abroad, just to remember that you are removed from the safety net, part of that part of life that you never really thought of, always have the potential to be in trouble there, if you fall or get lost – that doesn’t exist anymore – that doesn’t exist anymore.”
Amanda Knox’s new book, Free: My Search for Meaning, is now available. (Published by Grand Central)
Knox noted that this is “an era in our lives where we feel we are not adults and when we are not, we are indestructible.”
“You should remember, especially for young people, seeking help doesn’t make you a small amount of personal or adult,” she said. “In fact, knowing when and how to seek help is a very adult thing. That’s what I recommend…be careful. Seek help. Always rely on others around you if you have questions. Always rely on your family.”
She also encouraged other parents to allow their children to spread wings despite their fearful attitude.
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See Amanda Knox here in 2011 (right), acknowledging the cheers of supporters along with mother. (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)
“Don’t be afraid to let your kids enter the world and be the ones they are going to be beautiful humans,” she said. “I think one of the truly beautiful things we have now is the ability to stay in touch with much more than I could do when I was studying abroad.
“Keep in touch, be there, provide support, support anything. I think being a good listener is the main thing I would recommend to parents. Kids don’t like being told what to do, but listen and that extra safety net to focus on what sounds sketchy and support.
Knox added: “Please be aware of what your child says to you.”
Knox said she began slowly opening up her past to the three-year-old, who had already begun to ask questions.
Amanda Knox was seen in the scene of the TV show “Cinque Minuti” on Rai Studios in Rome, Italy on June 10, 2024. (Antonio Masiello/Getty image)
“My daughter is so smart…and she doesn’t have a real sense of tragedy,” Knox explained. “She knows sometimes things aren’t fair, but she encounters the world in fairy tales and entertainment. So having to communicate with her somehow means frolicking – even the worst experience of my life.”
Knox continued: “She wanted to play ‘mom and I go to Italy.’ “She explained that if we went to the park and there was a bar place, she would walk behind the bar, shake them, and go, ‘Let me out! ‘
“It’s so stupid, it really makes it a new perspective…she knows mom was very sad for a long time and mom’s friends were really hurt… it’s incredible…it’s incredible and super dissatisfied.”
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British student Meredith Kercher was murdered on November 1, 2007. (Franco Origlia/Getty image)
Knox describes in her book that people often think she won’t get into Italy anymore. Some people even apologize to her and suggest supper at an Italian restaurant, she wrote. Knox said that despite what happened to her in Italy, she still loves the country’s diet and culture.
Knox returns to Italy in 2019 As a keynote speaker for the criminal justice conference chaired by the Italian Innocent Project.
Amanda Knox talked about a panel discussion titled “Media Trial” at the Criminal Justice Festival held at the University of Law in Modena in northern Italy on June 15, 2019. Knox was acquitted on March 27, 2015. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images)
Seattle locals He was a 20-year-old Perugian student who was stabbed to death in 2007 by British student Meredith Kercher.
Amanda Knox was accompanied by Perugia’s Court on September 16, 2008 after hearing the murder case in Meredith Kercher on September 16, 2008. (Antonio Calanni / AP)
The case makes global headlines suspicious of Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. But another man from the Ivory Coast, Rudy Guede in his DNA was found at the crime scene. The European Court ordered Italy to pay Knox damages for police failure, noting that she was vulnerable as a foreign student who was not fluent in Italian.
Amanda Knox, the leftist, and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were found dead in 2007 on the rented house where 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was found dead in Perugia, Italy. (File Photo/AP)
Knox returned to the United States in 2011 after his release from the Court of Appeal in Perugia and established a false conviction of his own global campaigner. Over the years, she tried to clear the names of all crimes and wrongdoing.
Today, Knox is a board member of the innocence center of a non-profit law firm, aiming to free innocent people from prison. She also often discusses that high profile cases affect loved ones in podcasts with her husband (called “The Maze”.
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Rudy Guede (right) was eventually convicted of murder after discovering his DNA at the crime scene. (Franco Origlia/Getty image)
Guede, 37, was released in 2021 after serving 16 years in prison.
In January, Italy’s highest court confirmed the slander against Knox, accusing an innocent man, Patrick Lumumba, of murdering her roommate.
Knox’s defense team said she accused Lumumba of being a Congolese man who hired her bar under long inquiries and under pressure from police, who said she gave her false information. The European Court of Human Rights found that police deprived her lawyers and provided more important mediators of translation.
Patrick Lumumba spoke to the media in a meeting in the final ruling of the murders of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in Rome, Italy on March 25, 2015. (Franco Origlia/Getty image)
According to Knox’s statement, Lumumba was brought in to inquiries despite Ironclad Alibi. His business suffered and eventually moved to Poland with his Polish wife. He had said before that Knox “never apologized to me.”
Knox is no longer at risk of being sentenced to jail. She continues to fight the law The purpose is to clear her name.
Amanda Knox arrived at the courthouse in Florence on June 5, 2024 with her husband Christopher Robinson and then held a hearing in a libel case, related to her imprisonment and later murder of a British roommate in 20077. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images)
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“I hate the fact that I have to have consequences for the crime I haven’t committed,” Knox said in a recent podcast.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
