Amanda Knox’s Facebook page revealed… including her goofy selfies, relationship updates and two VERY bizarre photos
The 29-year-old American made headlines around the world in 2007 when she was arrested by Italian authorities for the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher
GOOFY selfies, sweet relationship updates and funny viral videos… Amanda Knox’s personal Facebook page offers a candid insight into her incredibly normal life.
The young American made headlines around the world in 2007 when she was arrested by Italian authorities for the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher.
Amanda - who was studying in Perugia at the time - along with her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was convicted of Meredith’s murder and spent four years in an Italian prison.
In 2015, Italy's highest court - the Supreme Court of Cassation - definitively exonerated Amanda and Raffaele.
The 29-year-old now lives in Seattle, Washington, where she writes for the local newspaper, West Seattle Herald, and works at a publishing company.
She’s even got a new boyfriend, author Christopher Robinson.
Amanda’s social media account looks like that of any other woman in your newsfeed.
A dorky shot sees her laughing at the camera in a pair of plastic science goggles, while a close-up shows off her flawless skin and cropped hairdo.
She beams as she enjoys a cup of tea, pulls an arty pose in bright blue light and offers an insight into her working day in other candid snaps.
However, amongst all of these ordinary shots are two rather bizarre photographs of her larking around with three pals.
In both of the images, Amanda is seen covering her eyes as the quartet appears to act out the ‘See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Say No Evil’ mime.
The phrase relates to a picture of three monkeys, one covering its eyes, one covering its ears and one covering its mouth, apparently originating from Japan, that teaches to avoid impropriety.
On her profile, Amanda regularly tags her friends in heart-warming Happy Birthday posts and she recently updated her status to ‘In A Relationship’.
Amanda, who has been dating Christopher since February, made their romance social media official not long after revealing on her blog that they are not yet to ready to get married or start a family.
Peppered among these mundane posts are reminders that Amanda’s life has been anything but ordinary.
A new eponymous Netflix documentary is set to revisit the fascinating case Amanda was embroiled in.
She links to online features promoting the film on her Facebook page including a Vanity Fair review, an interview she did with a local radio station, with the pull quote “People love the idea of a monster”, and a photo of rapper Snoop Dogg supporting The Innocence Project, an organisation which aims to help exonerate people who have been wrongly convicted.
On Monday, she posted this status: “October 3rd, 2011. Five years ago today I was freed from four years of wrongful imprisonment.”
One of the first scenes in the Netflix documentary is so jarring in its normalcy that it’s actually quite shocking.
Amanda pulls her car into the driveway of a suburban house, carries two grocery bags from the car, locks it, and makes her way inside.
The camera focuses on her small hands as she chops vegetables and rolls meatballs for her dinner. She scratches her cat’s neck and coos as it curls under her fingers.
This ordinary existence, so similar to many of our own, is a stark contrast from the “Foxy Knoxy” image we saw in the headlines for years.
The Amanda we see here is not a “monster”, but a regular woman trying to live a simple life.
She has many supporters in her hometown of Seattle. When she walks into a coffee shop, she’s not often left alone.
“This morning it was just fine. No one recognised me or made a big deal, no one asked to do a selfie with me,” she told Seattle radio station KUOW.ORG.
“When I enter into a room and I’m meeting people for the first time, it’s like people are not meeting me for the first time,” she said.
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“I go into a room and what I am facing is people’s ideas about who I am. And they may be positive ideas, they may be negative ideas, they may be coming from a million different sources, and I don’t know what they are ... people like the idea of a monster.”
Amanda says taking part in the documentary was the only way she could regain control over her story.
“I suddenly feel like it’s not just this thing that was put on me, but that I can feel empowered,” she said.
“Suddenly it’s this thing that I can take ownership of myself, of my perspective, of my experience, and I can do what I will with that.”
Amanda isn’t shying away from her past. She’s running towards her future.
“I would love for you to engage with me,” she said.
“I would love to engage in discussion about the bigger picture and the way that we’re all assuming things of each other, or going out of our way to be patient with our judgement.”