(NewsNation) — Amanda Knox, who was convicted of murder and then acquitted, has offered advice to the two surviving roommates of the Idaho murders case, urging them not to take online attacks personally.
“This is going to be hard for them, but do not take it personally,” Knox, who is promoting her new book “Free: My Search for Meaning,” said Tuesday on NewsNation’s “Banfield.”
She added: “Whatever people are projecting onto you, they are projecting onto an idea of you that doesn’t exist but says way more about them than it does about you. Protect yourself.”
Knox also encouraged the surviving roommates to seek a “victim support person.”
“There are people out there who will threaten your life. Get yourself a victim support person, go to the FBI and have them track it, like all of that. I had to do that myself,” she said. “Be safe, but do not take it personally.”
Prosecutors have charged Bryan Kohberger, a University of Washington graduate student, with the stabbing deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. The students were found with fatal stab wounds in an off-campus rental home in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022. Chapin, Kernodle’s boyfriend, was sleeping over at the time of the killings.
Know was exonerated in the 2007 killing of her British flatmate, Meredith Kercher.
She also shared the ongoing challenging aftermath of her wrongful conviction, including persistent internet trolls and media speculation. She drew parallels to other high-profile cases involving women, arguing that such narratives often stem from problematic gender stereotypes.
Now a mother and advocate, Knox has transformed her traumatic experience into a platform for criminal justice reform. She continues to speak out about her case and support other wrongfully convicted individuals.
NewsNation’s Damita Menezes contributed to this report.