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The Megyn Kelly Show

Amanda Knox on Media Bias and Sensationalism, Reclaiming Her Name, and Motherhood and Marriage | Ep. 211

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.632.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by Amanda Knox, writer and co-host of the "Labyrinths" podcast, to talk about the story that made her a national name, the details of her arrest, what she faced with the Italian police, the way the prosecution botched the case, the media's selective reporting, bias and sensationalistic coverage, reflecting on her interview with Chris Cuomo, her effort to reclaim her life and her name, her thoughts on the Kyle Rittenhouse case, due process on college campuses, the MeToo movement, "cognitive opening" and learning to forgive, motherhood and marriage, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. Oh, we have a good show

0:16.4

for you today. You're going to love this program. Joining me now is Amanda Knox. She's a

0:21.6

writer, a new mother and co-host of the podcast, Labyrinths, with her husband, Christopher

0:27.3

Robinson. Amanda is a household name, not just in our country, but worldwide, but not

0:33.5

by choice. She has spent the past six years trying to reclaim her life, her story and

0:39.0

her freedom. After she was wrongfully convicted of a murder, she did not commit in Italy in

0:45.0

2009. And she joins me now. Amanda, thank you for being back with me. We interviewed

0:50.6

when I was on NBC. And I'm so happy to see you doing so well. And congratulations on

0:55.4

the birth of your daughter. Thank you so much, Megan. It's great to reconnect.

1:00.0

So I've been like neck deep in Amanda Knox in preparation for this interview. And of

1:05.2

course, I was in the media when this happened to you. So I covered it, not in the way the

1:09.8

British tabloids did, but I covered it as a, you know, new story. And as a young woman

1:16.0

myself, I was skeptical of the claims being made about you as a lover of Italy. I was

1:22.4

not wanting to believe that they'd be doing this to an innocent American that there was

1:26.7

any sort of anti-Americanism going on there. But for sure, it was a dynamic of play. And

1:32.2

as I sort of went back to your story through the Netflix documentary and your book and so

1:37.5

on a bunch of interviews about you and involving you, I felt a trauma on your behalf. It was

1:44.6

never ending. It wasn't like, oh my God, one year in my life was so awful. It went on

1:50.2

and on and on. And you're still, you're still trying to get out from under it in some ways.

1:56.1

So let's just start at the beginning. I think a lot of people know generally, you know,

2:00.4

she's a sheve that girl, Foxy Noxie, that's the newspapers called her and what happened

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