How Amanda Knox Makes Sense of Her Past | Fail Better with David Duchovny

Amanda Knox was a young student in a foreign country when she was thrust into an international media firestorm, accused — and then ultimately acquitted — of the murder of her roommate. Now an author and public speaker, she’s the executive producer of the new scripted drama “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox”, an attempt to finally tell her story on her own terms. She has spent years grappling with the profound psychological impact of her imprisonment and exoneration, and she isn’t afraid to open up about her intentions in retelling this story once again in the public eye, or why she decided to face her Italian prosecutor years later. She joins me to discuss how she's made sense of it all, the contradictions she's observed in the systems she was caught in, and how she explains it all to her young daughter.

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00:00 Intro
02:00 Amanda’s introduction & backstory
02:55 False confessions, gaslighting, and “cognitive openings”
06:30 Police deception / memory manipulation
12:30 Interrogation tactics, interviews vs interrogations
15:45 Relationship with prosecutor Giuliano Mignini
19:30 Misjudgments, gut instincts and public perception
22:30 Why did Amanda decide to confront her prosecutor?
25:45 Choosing understanding over forgiveness
27:10 Correspondence, and eventual meeting with Mignini
29:45 Forgiveness as an unintended outcome
32:00 Cultural narratives: MeToo and misogyny in Italy vs U.S.
34:30 Media stereotypes
36:00 Why tell the story again?
41:10 Telling her story to her four year old daughter
46:40 Why it was time to tell THIS story
51:30 Was Amanda worried about the title?
53:30 Faith and why Harry Potter helped guide her through prison
57:30 Loneliness, prison, and finding meaning in stories
59:30 Zen practice and amor fati (love of fate)
1:01:25 Storytelling, advocacy, and helping others
1:02:40 Closing banter and David’s glasses