“Amanda Knox’s Controversial Memoir: A Plea for Understanding or a Provocation to Meredith Kercher’s Family?”
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In her new memoir, Free, Knox focuses on her traumatic experiences in jail – including how she was stripped nude by a male doctor, put into isolation for months, given only bread to eat, and was “propositioned for sex” by a deputy commander.
When asked about the potential impact the book would have on her former roommate’s family, Knox encouraged them to give it a read.
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The 37-year-old explained: “I hope that they read my book because I really honor Meredith’s memory in the book but I also believe that honoring her past and story does not mean erasing my own.
“I am a person who is continuing to pursue justice in this case but a bigger issue that I try and speak to and free is how do we all overcome the traumas that are in our lives, regardless of whether or not we get what we deserve.”
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But Kercher’s family lawyer, Francesco Maresca, denounced the new release as “inappropriate and disrespectful.”
The lawyer also stated it’s clear Knox is exploiting the case as a “source of income” and a way to “keep her name in the media.”
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Knox hit back during her live Good Morning Britain interview, telling him to kindly “keep his opinions to himself.”
She said: “Well, I would say that he’s a hypocrite, honestly, as someone who himself has profited not just off the work that he has done on the case but in writing his own book, I think that Mr Maresca can very politely keep his opinions to himself.
