EmailExclusive Interview with Diane Sawyer Will Air During an ABC News Primetime Special on Tuesday, April 30 at 10:00 PM
Amanda Knox, the college junior who became the center of a murder trial that riveted the attention of millions around the world, has never told her story. Now after the dramatic Italian trial, conviction, and the court appeal that finally acquitted and freed her she will speak to ABC News.
The exclusive interview will air during primetime special on Tuesday, April 30 at 10:00 p.m., ET on the ABC Television Network. It will also be featured across all ABC News broadcasts and platforms including “World News with Diane Sawyer,” “Good Morning America,” and “Nightline” as well as ABCNews.com, Yahoo!, ABC News Radio, and ABC’s local affiliates.
Knox was convicted in December 2009 and spent four years in prison on the charge of murdering her British roommate, but was then released and cleared in October 2011. Knox’s firsthand account of her voyage from American student studying abroad to a woman facing decades in a foreign prison will include details she has never shared.
The interview airs in conjunction with the publication of Knox’s highly anticipated book “Waiting to Be Heard,” which will be published by HarperCollins on April 30, 2013.
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could not be a better interviewer than Diane.
Posted by: SMOOCHIE | February 11, 2013, 11:39 am 11:39 am
Who really cares!
Posted by: The Pope | February 11, 2013, 11:40 am 11:40 am
Would anyone care if she were ugly?
Posted by: Joe | February 11, 2013, 11:50 am 11:50 am
I’m interested to hear what she has to say. The case against her was a total fabrication concocted by a prosecutor that belongs in jail himself and shameless tabloids that appealed to the anti-American sentiment that is pervasive in much of Italy. (Even though the prosecutions “evidence” and their theory has been proven to be full of holes, many still believe she is guilty.) It’s a shame she had to spend so much time in prison and our government did nothing for her.
Posted by: Andy | February 11, 2013, 11:58 am 11:58 am
I look forward to hearing her speak. I believed in her from day one.
Posted by: Kari | February 11, 2013, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm
@Joe…”would anyone care if she was ugly?” Sadly, no. At least not as much. But one can ask if she would have been prosecuted with such zeal had she not made such an appealing target for both the prosecution and the media.
Posted by: Andy | February 11, 2013, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm
Agree with the posts that Ms. Knox has been helped by the fact she is a decent looking, sexually charged, upper-middle class white girl. Believe me, if all the facts were the same but she was an unattractive, minority woman from some gang-ridden area of Chicago, she’d have been a 3 minute news story and still be rotting in prison.
Posted by: jjgittes74 | February 11, 2013, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm
My personal opinion – she’s a very courageous young woman. I hope she does well in whatever she chooses. She will obviously have the power of advocacy in many directions.
Posted by: Mike | February 11, 2013, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm
Knox’s looks actually worked against her as the media’s sensationalist coverage of her and the prosection claims demonstrate. She was referred to as “Foxy Knoxy”, an “Angel faced she-devil”, a “demonic, satanic, diabolical she-devil” and presented as a sex starved femme fatale. The prosecution claimed she had manipulated Sollecito because he was enthralled with her.
One investigator, Giobbi, claimed she had swivelled her hips at him while putting on shoe covers before entering the cottage and said “Oop la!” Americans don’t say “Oop la”. It’s not part of American English. No benefit of doubt was given to her for the possibility that she had merely lost her balance while standing on one foot putting on the covers and had actually said “Oops!”. I don’t believe Giobbi even speaks English so his own cultural bias would affect how he interpreted “Oops”. This is the same man who claimed he “knew” she was guilty merely by watching her and that he didn’t need to rely on other kinds of investigation..like evidence.
Posted by: Stacyhs | February 11, 2013, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
I am not at all interested in whether some people think Amanda Knox is attractive or not.
What I am interested in is ABC’s despicable practice of paying an accused murderer (whose case is still under appeal) for an interview. ABC is claiming (ridiculously) that Knox was not compensated in any way but it is not an accident that ABC is the network most closely associated with checkbook journalism. There is a $1 million discrepancy between what HarperCollins says she paid Knox and and what Knox says her book sold for–so use your imagination as to what happened to that money. (By the way this info comes from an interview Knox did with the Italian tabloid Oggi, so ABC’s claim that she has never told her story before is false.)
Meredith Kercher’s family lost their daughter, and then were nearly bankrupted trying to fight back against the media’s airbrushed portrayal of Knox. Please visit their website, The Meredith Kercher Fund, and blogs like PerugiaMurderFile and Truejustice dot org that are dedicated to educating people as to the truth of this vicious murder.
Posted by: brmull | February 11, 2013, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
RIP Meredith
Posted by: Helen | February 11, 2013, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm
She is innocent and anybody that thinks otherwise is as dumb as those crooked bozos in that town, but I’m sick of hearing about her.
Posted by: Ann | February 11, 2013, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm
bmull: “The truth of this vicious murder”, as you know but for whatever sick reason refuse to admit, is that Rudy Guede sexually assaulted and murdered Meredith Kercher all by himself. Amanda Knox had nothing whatsoever to do with it and there is no evidence showing that Amanda and/or Raffaele Sollecito were anywhere near the site of Meredith’s murder on the night of 11/7/2007. There is also no evidence that ABC has paid a dime to Amanda for the interview with Diane Sawyer. Ms Sawyer is one of the most honored journalists in television news. She (& ABC) don’t have to pay anyone for interviews. Please give up your ridiculous accusations.
Posted by: riverlady99 | February 12, 2013, 2:07 am 2:07 am
There never was as much as a scrap of credible evidence that Knox or Sollecito were involved in the horrible murder of Meredith Kercher.
That’s the bottom line here. The story needs telling.
Posted by: Rikard Ettberg | February 12, 2013, 4:24 am 4:24 am
To the people who say Amanda was “saved” by her looks, you’re wrong.
She was saved because she had a family that refused to give up the fight, even when faced with avalanche after avalanche of judicial bollocks from the people trying to frame her.
And if she had been unattractive and a member of a disadvantaged minority, it’s far less likely she would have been targetted by the “gentlemen” in the justice system who fantasized in such detail about her character and actions.
Posted by: Rikard Ettberg | February 12, 2013, 4:58 am 4:58 am
I’ve watched the Knox case from the beginning and sometimes it makes me philosophical. bmull is dead-sure that Knox is guilty. Others like Jackdmontana are absolutely sure she is innocent. Each side argues their beliefs in an attempt to prove the other wrong. But in the end although both may be wrong, both CAN’t be right.
How easy is it for all of us to question and attack the beliefs of others. How many times in our own world, do we actually say “Hmm. I was wrong, Just wrong”. Maybe questioning ourselves as much as we question others would lead to a better understanding of what “truth” really is.
Posted by: wcg1989 | February 12, 2013, 7:15 am 7:15 am
As far as Amanda looks go, she is not a super model. Nor does she ever want to be. She is still innocent. And if she were an ugly as sin Palestinian terrorist or Muslim al-Queda operative, the Italians would have let her go. They just thought they could get tough with a little American school girl, they are all spoiled sluts you know. Says so in all the Italian sensationalistic rags they call journalism. She (I emphasize “she”, because it is basically her as individual person, working through her friends and by means of her reputation) made fools out of them. They are so so so brave. They really haven’t changed much since Mussolini ran their affairs.
Posted by: JackDMontana | February 12, 2013, 7:23 am 7:23 am
Don’t blame the prosecutor, she was found guilty and the only reason she is free is because of the lack of seriousness and efficiency of the Italian Police and justice system. I am not saying she is guilty or not but Italian Justice is a joke. The Italian Police and Court system is a total farce. No wonder the Country is run by the Criminal Element, Criminals go Scot free and innocent peolple are found guilty. And please don’t bring that nonsense that Italians don’t like Americans, Italy is almost like a an extension of America, because they do everything they are told by America , specially that Clown Berlosconi.
Posted by: SHUG GILCHRIST | February 12, 2013, 9:42 am 9:42 am
She has still not given a proper alibi for the night of Meredith’s murder. One minute she said, she can’t remember what she was doing, another minute she said she was in the cottage at the time and overheard Patrick killing Meredith, another minute she said she was with Sollecito all night. He says she wasn’t. She has told nothing but lies. And to add to her trying to wriggle out of it, her family hire a Public Relations firm to manipulate the media to make out she is innocent. Her book and this interview are nothing but continued media spin and there has been no real evidence as yet to say that she was not in the cottage on the night of Meredith’s murder. Meredith’s friends thought Knox was an oddball, sexually rapacious and was jealous of Meredith. It’s about time the real Amanda Knox was exposed instead of hidden behind all this media spin.
Posted by: Janet Couzens | February 12, 2013, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm
tacky, tacky, tacky…grasping for dollars on the grave of your dead room mate. RIP to the real victim, Meredith Kercher.
Posted by: agatha c | February 12, 2013, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
There was never the slightest scrap of credible evidence that Knox was involved in the murder.
She deserves every penny she gets from the book as compensation for four years’ wrongful imprisonment.
Posted by: Rikard Ettberg | February 13, 2013, 10:45 am 10:45 am
How does she explain pointing the finger at an innocent man? I’ve heard of people being broken down to confession, but to say it was her former boss? That is evil.
Posted by: Missy | February 13, 2013, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm
I’m sure she’ll explain that in the book. Why don’t you wait till you know the truth before drawing conclusions.
Posted by: Rikard Ettberg | February 15, 2013, 9:04 am 9:04 am
Harsh mistreatment and abusive condition will make most people flip. I am sure most of the fools who denounce AK an this blog are no different. Gee, they talk trash without anyone forcing them to.
Posted by: JackDMontana | February 15, 2013, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm
“How does she explain pointing the finger at an innocent man? I’ve heard of people being broken down to confession, but to say it was her former boss? That is evil.”
If you have to ask this, it demonstrates a lack of knowledge about the case. She explained it in her “gift statement” she wrote just hours later and also in her trial testimony.
Posted by: Stacyhs | February 19, 2013, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm
Shame on ABC and Diane Sawyer for this interview, helping to market a book and four million dollars for a publicity seeking, harsh and self absorbed woman who has not been cleared of a horrendous murder, showing no remorse….shame on me for having watched such very poor, absurd and unethical journalism …….
Posted by: Diana Sanandaji | May 1, 2013, 6:34 am 6:34 am