The "Foxy Knoxy" moniker given to Amanda Knox by some Italian tabloids during the sensational 2007 murder trial there still haunts her, she told ABC's "Good Morning America" as she prepares to launch a five-part documentary series.
Knox was studying abroad when she was accused in Italy of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher. She was tried twice in Italian courts, found guilty both times, only to have those rulings overturned, the last in 2015, ABC News reported.
Some media outlets dubbed her "Foxy Knoxy" over the course of the trial, a name that continues to follow her, she told "Good Morning America" while promoting her series "The Scarlet Letter Reports."
"It's almost like living a double life where I'm in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person exists, 'Foxy Knoxy,' an idea of a person exists, and I'm constantly having to juggle how someone is interacting with me based upon that two-dimensional person of me that has been in the public's imagination for so long," Knox told "Good Morning America."
"And I'm not alone in that. As soon as you've been labeled something, as soon as you've been given that catchy, salacious nickname, the real you is gone and you are absorbed into this template character," she continued.
Knox told Newsweek that she created "The Scarlet Letter Reports" to help other women who have had to battle for their identity back after "a splashy headline" came to define them.
"Being a wrongfully convicted person and being a person who was totally slaughtered and dissected in the media is something I've been grappling with and wrapping my mind around, still," Knox told Newsweek.
"I hope what people will see in me is not that I will be 'Foxy Knoxy,' or whatever they envisioned me to be," she continued.
She told Newsweek she came up with the idea for "The Scarlet Letter Reports" before the #MeToo movement started in October 2017, when dozens of stars came forward to accuse movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, assault and rape.
Knox said the movement, though, encouraged her to move ahead with it so she could help other women who felt objectified by the media.
"MeToo happened, and then women's experiences were treated like they mattered," Knox said to Newsweek. "It's an incredible time to be a woman. We're redefining what it means. I'm amazed and so grateful to be a part of it. I never thought I would be there. Not too long ago, I thought I would be spending the best decades behind bars for something I didn't do…that I would forever be written off as a murderer when I wasn't."
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