Amanda Knox

I did not speak fluent Italian, no. I was very elementary level. I certainly could not defend myself under an interrogation. And I think part of the problem... was also that I wasn't sure if they were mad at me or were not understanding me because I was not speaking fluent Italian or because they were, in fact, suspecting me. Like, I could not interpret what was happening to me.

I'd never even been in a situation where I had been in trouble before. Like, I'd never had to sit down with a principal and talk about being in trouble. Like, nothing like that had ever happened to me. So I was very much... In a very new experience after in the immediacy of discovering that my roommate had been murdered. So I was in a state of shock already.

I'd never even been in a situation where I had been in trouble before. Like, I'd never had to sit down with a principal and talk about being in trouble. Like, nothing like that had ever happened to me. So I was very much... In a very new experience after in the immediacy of discovering that my roommate had been murdered. So I was in a state of shock already.

I'd never even been in a situation where I had been in trouble before. Like, I'd never had to sit down with a principal and talk about being in trouble. Like, nothing like that had ever happened to me. So I was very much... In a very new experience after in the immediacy of discovering that my roommate had been murdered. So I was in a state of shock already.

And I'm in a room with authority figures who I'm relying on for my safety and who I'd been raised to trust and obey. And they are yelling at me. They are contradicting me. They're telling me that what I'm saying doesn't make any sense. They're telling me that I'm lying.

And I'm in a room with authority figures who I'm relying on for my safety and who I'd been raised to trust and obey. And they are yelling at me. They are contradicting me. They're telling me that what I'm saying doesn't make any sense. They're telling me that I'm lying.

And I'm in a room with authority figures who I'm relying on for my safety and who I'd been raised to trust and obey. And they are yelling at me. They are contradicting me. They're telling me that what I'm saying doesn't make any sense. They're telling me that I'm lying.

But then on top of that, so these are all, you know, these bullying tactics are very effective at getting people to falsely confess. But on top of that, they lied to me. What was the biggest and most egregious lie? The biggest and most egregious lie was that they knew that I was present when the crime occurred. They knew. That's what they told you that—

But then on top of that, so these are all, you know, these bullying tactics are very effective at getting people to falsely confess. But on top of that, they lied to me. What was the biggest and most egregious lie? The biggest and most egregious lie was that they knew that I was present when the crime occurred. They knew. That's what they told you that—

But then on top of that, so these are all, you know, these bullying tactics are very effective at getting people to falsely confess. But on top of that, they lied to me. What was the biggest and most egregious lie? The biggest and most egregious lie was that they knew that I was present when the crime occurred. They knew. That's what they told you that—

And that was incredibly destabilizing for me because that was not what I remembered. Like I was at my boyfriend's house the entire night. I kept insisting that can't be true, that can't be true. But they insisted that it was true and they knew for sure. And so the next lie on top of that was that because I was present and that I had witnessed this crime, I had trauma-induced amnesia.

And that was incredibly destabilizing for me because that was not what I remembered. Like I was at my boyfriend's house the entire night. I kept insisting that can't be true, that can't be true. But they insisted that it was true and they knew for sure. And so the next lie on top of that was that because I was present and that I had witnessed this crime, I had trauma-induced amnesia.

And that was incredibly destabilizing for me because that was not what I remembered. Like I was at my boyfriend's house the entire night. I kept insisting that can't be true, that can't be true. But they insisted that it was true and they knew for sure. And so the next lie on top of that was that because I was present and that I had witnessed this crime, I had trauma-induced amnesia.

They insisted that my brain didn't remember the truth precisely because I had witnessed the crime and therefore was traumatized. And my brain had been making up an alternate reality that I thought I was remembering staying at my boyfriend's house when in fact I was at my house when the crime occurred. And you believed it. You started to believe that.

They insisted that my brain didn't remember the truth precisely because I had witnessed the crime and therefore was traumatized. And my brain had been making up an alternate reality that I thought I was remembering staying at my boyfriend's house when in fact I was at my house when the crime occurred. And you believed it. You started to believe that.

They insisted that my brain didn't remember the truth precisely because I had witnessed the crime and therefore was traumatized. And my brain had been making up an alternate reality that I thought I was remembering staying at my boyfriend's house when in fact I was at my house when the crime occurred. And you believed it. You started to believe that.

I started to believe it because after hours of insisting upon my innocence and that that wasn't true and that I wasn't lying, I started to question myself. Again, I was suggestible in that moment because there's only so long you can argue with authority figures before you, at least for me, I started to question myself. It's classic gaslighting.

I started to believe it because after hours of insisting upon my innocence and that that wasn't true and that I wasn't lying, I started to question myself. Again, I was suggestible in that moment because there's only so long you can argue with authority figures before you, at least for me, I started to question myself. It's classic gaslighting.

I started to believe it because after hours of insisting upon my innocence and that that wasn't true and that I wasn't lying, I started to question myself. Again, I was suggestible in that moment because there's only so long you can argue with authority figures before you, at least for me, I started to question myself. It's classic gaslighting.

After my conviction, I really settled into this idea that this was my world. It was a very small world. It was very contained. It was very controlled. And it was populated by all of these women who believed by comparison to me, were very unlucky. They were abused, they were neglected, they were impoverished. I think I was the only person there who had all of my teeth.