Amanda Knox: Trauma, Tabloids, and the Long Road Back from Hell
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Amanda Knox joins Ashleigh Banfield for an exclusive, raw, and emotional conversation about what came after the acquittal—and what never really ended. From her PTSD triggers to her complicated return to Italy, to a recent home break-in in the U.S. that shook her to her core, Amanda reveals how the trauma of wrongful conviction never truly fades.
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You don't have to be stuck in a prison cell to feel trapped in your own life. In Labyrinths, Amanda Knox and her partner Christopher Robinson delve into stories of getting lost and the resilience and personal growth it takes to find your way again. Through compassionate interviews, philosophical exploration, and playful debate, Amanda brings experience and wisdom born from international infamy and hard fought exoneration to conversations with fascinating people from all walks of life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Drop Dead Serious. I'm Ashley Banfield. And today I'm doing something I've |
| 0:13.2 | really been looking forward to. I'm talking to Amanda Knox. And there are a whole bunch of |
| 0:18.9 | reasons why I've been really looking forward to this conversation. |
| 0:22.6 | Number one, it might be one of the biggest true crime stories of the last two decades. |
| 0:28.1 | If you lived through it, you know what I mean. If you know, you know. If you did not live through it, |
| 0:33.3 | this podcast is for you because I'm going to take you through what happened to an Amanda Knox |
| 0:37.8 | and I'm going to go soup to nuts. So you might be a little confused. I think I heard she was a |
| 0:44.3 | killer. I think she was exonerated, but I don't know everything in between. I got you. |
| 0:49.0 | But number three, Amanda is, I mean, for lack of a better description, she's amazing. She really is. She is so incredibly articulate and poised and sober and thoughtful. And as a victim of a crime, because that is what she is, she was a victim. She lost her roommate and her friend and her home was a bloody |
| 1:14.7 | crime scene and then she was thrown in prison for it wrongfully. She's never been given that |
| 1:21.0 | grace of being treated like a victim of a crime, right? She's never been allowed to grieve for |
| 1:26.7 | the death of her friend and roommate, |
| 1:28.9 | or what she lost in life, right? Like everything that she knew, life was she knew it. So the |
| 1:36.0 | conversation that I'm having with her is a very profound one about all of these things, not to |
| 1:42.3 | mention how women, especially pretty ones, get targeted |
| 1:46.8 | sometimes in these stories, and very unfairly so. And now the headlines can just take on a life |
| 1:52.2 | of their own, damn the facts. So Amanda is just a great interview for all of these things, |
| 1:59.2 | but also because of her insight into us and the human |
| 2:03.4 | condition and what we do to each other and how to get out of it and who survives and who doesn't. |
| 2:08.9 | So let me start here. In 2007, Amanda was 20. She was smart, beautiful, adventurous. |
| 2:20.9 | Amanda Knox had just arrived in Italy for a year of studying abroad. But within weeks, she would be behind bars. She was accused of stabbing her British |
| 2:26.8 | roommate in a crime so salacious that tabloids simply could not help themselves. I mean the headlines. |
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