Amanda Knox publicly reunited together with her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for a purple carpet occasion in honor of Hulu’s scripted present about Meredith Kercher’s homicide trial.
Knox, 38, and Sollecito, 41, posed with the actors taking part in them in The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox — Grace Van Patten and Giuseppe De Domenico, respectively — on the Tuesday, August 19, premiere for the present in New York Metropolis.
The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox, which premiered on Wednesday, August 20, is an eight-episode collection that can chronicle the interval after Knox was wrongfully accused, her time in jail and her journey to freedom. Margaret Qualley was initially set to play Knox in Hulu’s scripted collection, however she exited the challenge and Van Patten, 28, changed her.
The precise trial befell after Knox was accused in 2007 of murdering her roommate Kercher whereas they have been finding out overseas in Perugia, Italy. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in jail after she and then-boyfriend Sollecito have been each convicted of the crime regardless of a scarcity of proof.
An appellate court docket later discovered the previous couple not responsible in 2011, however they have been once more discovered responsible three years later throughout a retrial. The Italian supreme court docket cleared Knox of Kercher’s homicide in 2015, and she or he was exonerated.
Ivorian migrant Rudy Guede was sentenced in 2008 to 30 years in jail for Kercher’s homicide after his DNA was recognized on the crime scene. His sentence was later decreased, and he was launched from jail in November 2021.
Knox has beforehand shared her facet of the story, however she solely advised Us Weekly how grateful she felt about being concerned in The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox.
“It actually comes all the way down to this concept of do I’ve a voice and does my voice matter in how a narrative is advised? That’s what Hulu has acknowledged, they usually’re taking an opportunity on that to say, ‘Sure, really the topic does have a perspective that’s beneficial and that issues,’” she shared with Us in March. “And we don’t need to fake that this world is filled with goal screenwriters who will not be bringing their very own stuff to the challenge. I feel that that’s a very fascinating experiment that’s being made proper now.”
Knox continued: “And naturally, I’m actually honored to work alongside Monica [Lewinsky], who’s my mentor. She’s govt producing as properly. I can’t converse loads about it but as a result of we’re nonetheless in manufacturing. However I’ll simply say that it’s one other manifestation of me having the chance to be acknowledged as somebody who has a beneficial perspective.”
The restricted collection takes inspiration from Knox’s memoir Free: My Seek for That means. Within the e-book, which was launched in March, Knox talked about reuniting with Sollecito throughout a secret journey again to Italy with husband Christopher Robinson.
Amanda Knox‘s memoir didn’t simply deal with her time in jail — she additionally shared many unfiltered confessions about her sexual historical past, challenges in her relationship life and extra. Free: My Seek for That means, out now, provides uncommon perception into Knox’s life after she was wrongfully convicted for Meredith Kercher’s dying. Knox, 37, didn’t simply break […]
“Since our joint acquittal in 2011, Raffaele had been touring the globe, in search of someplace, wherever exterior of Italy, to settle,” she wrote. “Since then, our lives had been shifting in very totally different instructions. Raffaele was nonetheless looking for a profession and a household, whereas I had discovered my companion in Chris and had my lovely daughter Eureka to brighten my days. We stored in contact via WhatsApp, buying and selling messages now and again. However I wouldn’t say we have been shut, regardless that the connection we have now can’t ever be severed.”
Knox recalled coming nose to nose with Sollecito practically 20 years after the trial.
“I felt a number of overlapping issues: nostalgia for what might have been, sheer gratitude at how my life had turned out, unhappiness for Raffaele, who was nonetheless looking for most of the issues I’d discovered,” she continued. “He was candy to hitch me right here, given the circumstances, and to collectively reimagine this intimate expertise as a familial one. He didn’t maintain it towards me, at the same time as I noticed that longing look in his eyes as he watched me and Chris and Eureka.”
Knox concluded: “I imagined that part of him was pondering of that alternate universe, the place Meredith was by no means killed and we have been by no means arrested, and we went to Gubbio that day, and maybe these a few years later, fortunately married, we have been returning with our child to revisit a spot from our early courtship. I used to be actually imagining that myself.”
New episodes of The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox air Wednesdays on Hulu.
