"I literally collapsed between, you know, my attorneys, and then the guards sort of had to carry me out of this court room where i'm hysterical," she says. "This isn't just a thing that is happening to me. This is my life now. And whether or not it's based in truth, this defines me." She spent four years in prison before being released on parole after serving 18 months.
Amanda Knox was just 20 years old when she was found guilty of a crime she did not commit — the murder of her roommate. Amanda spent four years in an Italian prison before she was finally exonerated and allowed to return to her life back home in the U.S. But she soon discovered that that life didn't exist anymore.
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