Amanda Knox reveals she is branded ‘sex obsessed and unnatural’ because the world knows all the sexual partners she had ever had
The former prisoner also said: "Either I’m a psychopath in sheep’s clothing… or I am you"
AMANDA Knox says she is seen as a "sex obsessed and unnatural" because of the intense scrutiny she has been under since her arrest for the death of a young British woman in Italy.
The 29-year-old and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of Meredith Kercher’s death in 2007, with an eight-year legal battle following as they fought to overturn the conviction.
Ultimately, Knox only served four years of her 26-year sentence with the verdict over-turned.
A subsequent re-trial in 2015 was thrown out, with Knox able to remain in Seattle.
In the newly-released Netflix documentary 'Amanda Knox', she says: "The whole world knew who I had ever had sex with,” she said.
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"Seven men and yet I was some heinous whore, bestial and sex obsessed and unnatural.
"I get into a line at the grocery story and the person behind me is like, ‘Woah, it’s you. I know you.’
"And I really want to turn to them and say, ‘Who the f*** are you?’"
Meredith, a 21-year-old from Surrey, was found dead in the cottage she shared with Knox and two other women in Perugia, Italy.
The young woman had been sexually assaulted and stabbed to death.
It was these graphic details, including the claims of prosecutors that the young woman had been killed during a drug-fuelled sex game, that gained worldwide attention.
Despite the Italian Supreme Court throwing out the case for good in 2015, there are still many who believe Knox and Sollecito were part of the brutal killing during which Kercher was sexually assaulted, beaten and had her throat viciously slit.
“There are people who believe in my innocence and there are people who believe in my guilt and there’s no in between,” Knox said in the opening moments of the documentary.
“Either I’m a psychopath in sheep’s clothing … or I am you.”
Filmmakers Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn uncovered unseen footage of Kercher taken from Knox’s phone in the weeks prior to the murder plus tapped phone conversations between Knox and a friend.
The call, made in the days after the murder, reveals Knox alternated between bragging about her boyfriend being “super hot” and being incredibly nervous in the police station and wanting to “bust in to crying”.
In addition, they uncovered there had been a continuing relationship between Knox and her co-accused, Raffaele Sollecito, with Knox filmed sharing her joy over the phone with Sollecito after their final exoneration in 2015, eight years after the they were first arrested.
Sollecito also revealed he attempted to send Knox flowers when they were initially convicted.
“I wanted to send her flowers for her birthday,” he told the documentary makers.
“Even though I’d only known her five days (prior to the murder), those five days were everything.”
The documentary also re-airs disturbing footage from the blood-soaked murder scene. It has found footage of Knox and Sollecito kissing and cuddling outside the crime scene which, at the time, was seen as evidence of their guilt. Seen from a different wide angle, it gave the filmmakers pause.
“In the wide shot you see the whole scene ... and the situation is so chaotic that it calls into question, ‘Was their behaviour in appropriate or were they simply consoling each other?’” said McGinn.
Knox wrote a rambling love note to her new boyfriend Christopher Robinson in an online blog post last month.
Describing moving into a flat with the writer she penned: “I’m excited to discover what our shared space will be like.
“Because just as our relationship is more than the sum of Chris and Amanda, so must our home be more than the sum of our stuff.
“I’m reminded of how my cell in Capanne prison transformed in character with the arrival or release of even just one prisoner.
Amanda Knox is released on Netflix today.
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