Name: Amanda Knox SPEAKS OUT On Her Arrest
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Amanda Knox SPEAKS OUT On Her Arrest' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Amanda Knox SPEAKS OUT On Her Arrest' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-05. Transcript available.

You grew up in Seattle. You went to UW, right? I actually know a lot of people
that grew up in that environment, like Pacific Northwest. It's like a very
specific Patagonia vest kind of situation.
Yes, it is that kind of situation. We all go outside a lot even though the
weather isn't always accommodating. Pretty progressive. Yeah, I was the kind of
kid who could just like do my own thing and be a creative weirdo and it wasn't
a big deal.
So clearly your case, you know, you went to college and then you became an
international spectacle. Yeah. Yeah. From, you know, from just under the most
traumatic worst circumstances.
Yeah, that's not fair. I guess prior to your arrest, you must have understood
that it became tabloid news, you know, I think in three countries, right? Primarily
like Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Yeah. So, yes. So really early on, it was already clear that there was a lot of
media buzz around the case. However, like I wasn't aware of what media they
were. I was in and out of the police station.
So I, I, it's not like I was like sitting at home, which my home was now a
crime scene. So I didn't have a home. I was hanging out with my boyfriend of a
week who was now like taking me under his wing and letting me stay at his place
while I had nowhere else to go.
And that really moves the relationship forward, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Being accused of a crime. Yeah.
Well, we hadn't been accused yet. Right. So, right. So like in the first few
days, we just were responding to this crazy, horrific thing that it seemed to
come out of completely nowhere.
Like it was, we were having this beautiful study abroad experience, our whole
lives ahead of us, everything was going great until suddenly I come home and
there's a crime scene and I call the cops because I don't know what to do and
they come and the whole thing explodes and it's happening so quickly.
Like I was arrested within five days and in those five days, I was being
questioned for over 10 hours a day. So like I didn't really, there was no way
for me to keep pace with how fast everything was developing in spite of the
fact that we didn't actually have, there wasn't a lot known about what happened
to my roommate at the time.
Yeah. Like very little was known. It was just all a lot of pressure descending
upon this small town and on these, you know, local law enforcement who were
charged with discovering who had committed this really heinous and is seemingly
inexplicable crime.
And to contextualize, I'm a bad interviewer. Yes. You were on study abroad. Yes.
And your roommate was murdered. Yes. And you were questioned for five days and
then later incarcerated. Yeah. Okay. So yes. Yeah. I'm terrible at my job. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. So why don't you share your story? Sure. Yeah. We'll edit it. No,
no. So for those who are not familiar, when I was 20 years old back in 2007, I
went to go study abroad.
I lived in a house with three other young women, one of whom one day was
discovered, raped and murdered in her bedroom. And this was very shortly. I was
only in Perugia for like five weeks. So I was like just getting my bearings and
I still was not fluent in the language. And I'm, you know, the youngest person
in the house and I'm the one who comes home and stumbles across this crime
scene. I call the police and the police come and they start investigating this
case.
They start investigating this case, but from very, from the very early stages.
And this is known now because like the prosecutor has written his own book
about it and everything.
When they came and discovered the crime scene, they immediately thought that
what was apparently visible, that there was a break-in, that whoever broke in,
raped and stabbed to death my roommate, that that was actually staged. It was faked.
It was, there was actually something more conspiratorial going on. And so they
believed that someone who had access to the house, who lived in the house, was
involved. And that suspicion fell very quickly.
And so they pursued a case against me even when, you know, the DNA evidence and
all the evidence in the case came back showing that it was this known burglar
known for being aggressive towards women who had a history of breaking and
entering. All of his DNA was at the crime scene.
All of his DNA was at the crime scene. The footprints. Yeah, footprints, bloody
handprints, his DNA in my roommate's body, like all of that definitively
proving his, you know, his guilt in this case. But by the time that they
identified that evidence, they had already arrested me. And so instead of
admitting that they were wrong, they pursued a case where they suggested that I
had orchestrated a murder orgy.
And, and, and that, that story just blew up over the world.
I mean, it's like perfect fodder for tabloid news.
Yes.
What's interesting also is that 2007 was like kind of an inflection point, I
think, of like, media.
Totally.
Like, so you were kind of at the tail end of like, tabloid establishment, like
the sun and the Daily Mail. And it's, it's subsequently changed. It's, it's
kind of like, you got Facebook, what, the year before that, right?
Yeah, so the iPhone came out that year.
I got it the first year of college.
Yeah.
I started texting freshman year.
There you go.
Like, yeah, we did not have smartphones back in those days. I was on a Nokia
flip phone.
Remember the days.
Or, or like even just, you know, in Perugia, I didn't have internet. I had to
go to an internet cafe.
Yeah.
Like, oh, you know, talk about aging myself. Like internet cafes were a thing.
You hear that, Joji?
Yeah.
Back in our day, yeah.
Yeah.
Back in our day, you had to go to a cafe to email your mom. And so yeah, so it
was a different time. And you're right, like it was the beginning. It was when
I think traditional establishment media was experiencing, was really realizing
that there was a crisis, there was an economic crisis, their economic model was
not going to survive the internet.
And so they were desperate to try to like retain readers. And so that ends the
end to do so with less of a budget. And so cheaply, quickly, efficiently to try
to outcompete the internet. And, and as a result, they just made shit up and
perpetuated misinformation because they were in their death throes.
And also it was three different countries, correct? So like, yeah, the
narrative, you know, in the UK, like their, their tabloid rags was like the Foxy
Noxy, like they love rhymes over there in there.
I've learned this since then. Yes.
Foxy Noxy is just that's breakfast, lunch and dinner for those guys. They're
like, this is perfect. Print it.
Yeah. Yeah. And then in the United States, it was like this, um, like American
girls, you know, scared abroad, you know?
Right. Some of it was, although like, it was also just a salacious sex angle
too.
Yes. Yeah. I mean, there was this like weird angle here in the US. Um,
specifically with like the Daily Beast, I recall was really, um, terrible, but
like there was a writer who wrote for the Daily Beast who just wrote these just
nonstop articles about student killer, Amanda Knox, student killer, Amanda Knox.
Was it real?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was women. Yeah. It was women writers.
She was hating on you.
Yeah. She was.
Yeah. My, my, my point prove it.
Oh no.
They want to see other women destroyed. No.
Well, and, but that also was this like narrative that the prosecution was
putting forth that like all women hate other women. Hence, of course, Amanda
would murder.
So I agree with the prosecution. Assume me.
Assume me.
Yeah. Yeah.
Um, and then also in Italy, there was like this kind of, it's a Catholic
country.
Yeah.
It was a, it was a religious prosecutor. Um, and then they were kind of labeled,
uh, puttana or whatever.
Yeah. There was definitely a Madonna, yeah. Madonna whore dichotomy that was
going on where both my roommate and I were completely misrepresented.
So in Italy itself, they had stereotypes about what are American girls like?
What are British girls like? And they thought, well, British girls are uptight
and judgmental and American girls are loose and, um, and slutty.
Kind of the opposite.
And well, whatever, you know, they're human beings and they're, they have all
these different facets, but the way that it got presented in court was Meredith
is this like uptight, judgmental person.
Amanda is this slutty sort of in your face person. Obviously this, their
confrontation would result in a sex murder. And it, for me at the time, like
what was so frustrating about it was this was obviously a fantasy that was
built on stereotypes and, and misogynistic pornographic fantasy.
Yeah. But so many people bought into it. And I'm actually curious, like back in
the day, do you remember, did you ever follow it?
You're beautiful. I mean, no, I mean, that was like an aspect of it. My, well,
I was going to say, my father was like, that was another news story where he
was like, she's beautiful Adam.
And she's, she's across the world and she's scared. And I was like, oh, my dad's
in love with this, this, uh, my dad was, should we hit him up?
Yeah. No, he gets so embarrassed. Really? Yeah. I'm like, dad, I'm with your
crush right now from back in the day.
Well, you know what? We should send him a selfie. No, come on. Let's not
embarrass. I'm sorry to embarrass you, dude. She thinks you're cute.
I know. Listen, I don't want to lead you astray. Your husband's here too. You
have nothing to worry about with this guy.
It must be so, it's actually so funny that that was how the British and
American girls were labeled.
Cause I don't know if you've been on vacation, but you sound like you're afraid
that you're about to be murdered.
The night of the, no, I'm not by the British. These people are come on. There's,
they're pathetic people.
Okay. They've never, I'm sorry. I'm causing an international event right now.
Yeah, you are.