How heartbreaking for Meredith Kercher’s family to learn that Amanda Knox, the woman convicted – and later acquitted – of Meredith’s brutal murder 17 years ago, has partnered with Disney to make a dramatised series about the events surrounding her death. All seen through Knox’s eyes.
It’s not as if ‘Foxy Knoxy’ needs the money, having already earned £3.5million from her two memoirs. Now she’s expecting to make even more money from the eight-part series, which has been given the title The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.
Unsurprisingly the Kerchers have hit back, accusing Knox of ‘trying to make money’ from Meredith’s death all these years later, and adding that ‘our family has been through so much it is difficult to understand how this serves any purpose’.
Except, of course, it serves Knox and her insatiable money-making appetite. And it gives her yet another platform to again tell all and sundry about her ordeal, her suffering – with seemingly only a passing reference to the horrors endured by her friend Meredith.
Amanda Knox attends the premiere of her eight-part dramatised series with husband Christopher Robinson
British student Meredith Kercher was 21 when she was murdered, a crime for which Knox was convicted and later acquitted
Meredith’s family have accused Knox of ‘trying to make money’ from her death and said they would not have objected to an impartial documentary about the murder
The Kercher family insist they would not have objected to an impartial documentary about Meredith’s murder but instead have to put up with an ‘undignified’ and sensationalised portrayal of the case.
‘Once again, we have to witness an attempt to reshuffle the cards, where the trailer states: “Amanda fights tirelessly to prove her innocence and regain her freedom”. Once again, the focus is on Knox.’
Reviewers of the TV series have universally castigated the show. They condemn it as a pity-party, but mostly a self-glorification of Foxy Knoxy, with Meredith’s murder almost relegated to a footnote. It is all about Amanda’s trauma, Amanda’s pain.
One critic goes so far as to say the dramatisation is ‘misguided’, adding that ‘this sad story has two victims, but by centring on Knox’s experiences, it sidelines and marginalises Kercher’s death’.
According to her official autopsy report, the manner of Meredith’s death was horribly brutal. She was raped, had bruising all over her body and suffered multiple stab wounds.
Which makes one ask again, how in the name of all that is decent can Knox rake it over again? Does she not even think of the Kercher family and their desperate pleas for her to let things rest?
Poor Meredith was a 21-year-old with her life and dreams before her when she was murdered. Why on earth is Knox, now 38, still milking it for millions?
At one point her words are beyond nauseating. ‘It was fate that Meredith was home that night and I wasn’t,’ she says in a voice-over to camera. ‘I was the lucky one. I hate that I have to dig through a decade of my trauma just to reach memories of her. I never really had the chance to mourn her… I’m coming back. I’m mourning the both of us.’
No, Amanda Knox, this is not the way you mourn a lost friend – in public and with dollar signs in your eyes. It’s not just your tale that is twisted, you are.
