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Hi, everyone. It's Sophia. Welcome to Work in Progress.

Welcome back to Part 2 of Work in progress with the inimitable Amanda Knox.

Let's continue.

It's so amazing, you know, all these years later that you've turned this into not only that you're an advocate, but you've also turned your advocacy into projects like the Scarlet Letter Reports, you know.

Oh, yeah. Thanks for bringing up the Scarlet Letter Report. I just think it's so amazing because

you, in it, you're examining the very gendered nature of public shaming. And the way we treat

women is just horrific. And I've been through it in my way. Obviously,

we're talking about your story today. I think about what was done to Britney Spears. I think

about what just happened with Karen Reed. You know, and you've done things to remove the veil and particularly examine the ways women are treated.

And I want to talk about all of those lessons.

But before we zoom out to the way the world treats us, I guess I just want to know,

you know, obviously people can read your books.

I don't want you to have to recount your whole story.

It's a lot.

It will be there a while.

It's a big story.

But I think about the fear I feel imagining that moment to be falsely convicted of a crime so egregiously with no real evidence to be

raked over the coals in the court of public opinion because they didn't have the evidence

so they needed people just not to like you you You were a kid. How did you cope? Because I think it's a miracle

that you're not sitting in the corner eating your own hair right now. So like, for later.

Yeah. Were you questioning your sanity? Were you questioning reality? What did you do to remain tethered to the truth in your young life in this place?

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