With her fiance Colin Sutherland, Amanda Knox speaks to the media during a brief press conference in front of her parents' home March 27, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo : Getty Images/Stephen Brashea)
On the "Nightline" episode aired on Sept. 30, Friday, on ABC, Amanda Knox had a sit-down interview with JuJu Chang. The former explained why she lied initially and told the police in Italy that she was in the apartment when her roommate Meredith Kercher was murdered in November 2007.
"The police told me that I had amnesia, and that I better remember the truth," Knox told Chang. According to Knox, Italian police forced her to consider that her memories that she had spent the night with her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were wrong and she needed to re-scramble her brain around in order to bring out the truth.
Knox revealed that during a grueling 53-hour interrogation, Italian police broke her down. She said she was hit on the back of the head and was yelled at while there was utter chaos with police coming in and out of the room telling her she was a liar.
In addition, Knox told Chang that she told interrogators she was there in the house covering her ears to block out Kercher's screams after she they made her doubt her own memories. Knox then pointed out that many case of wrongfully convicted people include a false confession.
Each move of Knox was scrutinized by her critics as the entire world watched her trial, conviction and acquittal. Soon, Netflix will release a documentary that allows her to deal with some of the unanswered questions surrounding her case.
In Feb. 21, 2011, a true crime TV movie titled "Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy" was released by Lifetime. It starred "Nashville" star Hayden Panetierre as Knox, "Che Dio ci auiti" alum Paolo Romio as Sollecito and "Cloud 9" alum Amanda Fernando Stevens as Kercher.
"Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy" was written by Wendy Battles and directed by Robert Dornhelm. It also starred Vincent Riotta, Heather Cave, Timothy Martin, Djibril Kebe, Clive Walton, Shobu Kapoor, Mimosa Campironi, Simonetta Solder and Fausto Maria Sciarappa, among others.
Watch the trailer of the Netflix documentary featury Knox's story here:
