Amanda Knox hopes to meet with murdered roommate’s family
May 1, 2013, 7:37 AM | Updated: 8:54 am
This April 9, 2013 photo released by ABC shows Amanda Knox, left, speaking during a taped interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer in New York. Last month, Italy's highest criminal court overturned her acquittal in the 2007 slaying of British student Meredith Kercher and ordered a new trial. The interview will air on Tuesday, April 30, coinciding with the release of her memoir, "Waiting to Be Heard." (AP Photo/ABC, Ida Mae Astute)
(AP Photo/ABC, Ida Mae Astute)
Amanda Knox sat down for her first television interview since her murder conviction was overturned in Italy with ABC’s Diane Sawyer.
Knox said the arrest for her roommate Meredith Kercher’s murder came as such a shock that she didn’t know how to deal with it.
It took her a lot of time to understand what was happening, “What happened to me hit me like a train,” she told Sawyer. “There was nothing I could do to stop it.”
After her conviction, Knox said the reality started to weigh her down. She compared prison to a tomb. “And the tomb was my life. It wasn’t the prison, it was my life.”
And when Sawyer asked her if she thought about suicide, she replied, “I did.”
Knox said she considered all the ways of ending her life, and she started to play with how to ask her family to forget her.
“I was trying to figure out how I could ask them to move on – with their life – without me. Because, I was tired of them having to sacrifice everything for me.”
Knox said she hopes to reconcile with Kercher’s family some day so she can share memories and recount their six weeks together in Italy.
She hopes to one day visit Kercher’s grave.
Kercher’s family has no interest in that, at least for now. The family also has no plans to read Knox’s new book.
Knox is awaiting a third trial for Kercher’s murder. It was ordered by Italy’s highest court earlier this year. She will not be required to attend the trial.
