Amanda Knox on empathy in storytelling and working with Monica Lewinsky in new 'Twisted Tale' series

The story of Amanda Knox has been told many times, and there have been several versions: there were the sensational allegations laid out by an Italian prosecutor, of a University of Washington exchange student who, in 2007, murdered her British roommate as part of a sex-game-gone wrong. 

That story landed Knox in Italian prison for almost four years; that story was fiction. Then, there were the clickbaity tabloid exploits of “Foxy Knoxy,” a sex-obsessed “luciferina.” This story, which is also wrong, kept Knox confined in another way: branded with a reputation she couldn’t shake. 

There were also Lifetime Movies, documentaries and countless books, including a couple by Knox herself, that told the true story of a young woman wrongly convicted and caught up by legal and media forces larger than herself. 

Now, for the first time, she is using a scripted TV series to tell her story the way she wants. 

She is the Executive Producer of a new series called The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. By the way, the series is also EP’d by Monica Lewinsky.

The first two episodes are available now on Hulu.

Guest: 

Amanda Knox, Executive Producer of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

Relevant Links:

New York Times: For a ‘Twisted Tale,’ Amanda Knox and Grace Van Patten Became One

Seattle Times: Amanda Knox reclaims her story in Hulu’s ‘Twisted Tale’ series

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