Amanda Knox Weighs-in On Nickname ‘Foxy Knoxy’

Amanda Knox disapproves of the nickname “Cunning Knoxy.”

In a clip from Whitney Cummings’ podcast “Good For You” obtained by People, the activist condemned the lascivious label, which was given to her after she was arrested for the homicide of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, whereas the 2 had been finding out overseas in Perugia, Italy in November 2007.

“Individuals made an enormous deal about ‘Cunning Knoxy’ and [were saying], ‘She’s the woman that everybody desires,’ and it is like, ‘That’s not me!'” argued Knox to Cummings.

Kercher, a 21-year-old British alternate scholar on the time, was discovered stabbed and sexually assaulted in her bed room. Authorities had been fast to pin the homicide on Knox and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, claiming the crime came about throughout a intercourse recreation that went terribly mistaken. “Cunning Knoxy” was quickly splashed throughout worldwide headlines.

“On the time, that was not me,” Knox, 33, defined. “I used to be not strolling all over the world being like, ‘Oh, I am the prettiest woman within the room.’ That didn’t happen to me. Additionally, I used to be by no means handled that manner.”

After Cummings recommended the nickname was “clickbait” as a result of it rhymed, Knox commented that it did not achieve this in Italian, nor was it as seemingly innocent within the language.

“They’d translate ‘Cunning Knoxy’ into ‘evil fox,'” Knox revealed. “The interpretation kind of twisted into, ‘The crafty fox.'”

And when Cummings requested Knox if she thought the trial would have captured such an enormous viewers if ‘Cunning Knoxy’ hadn’t rhymed in English, Knox rapidly replied, “No.”

Knox, who was 20 on the time of the killing, and Sollecito served 4 years behind bars for Kercher’s homicide — earlier than being absolutely exonerated and launched in 2015.

Rudy Guede was initially sentenced to 30 years in jail for the crime after his DNA was discovered on the scene. His conviction was diminished to 16 years following an attraction in 2008. And in 2020, Guede was granted permission by the Italian court docket to finish his sentence with neighborhood service.

“I do know that many, many, many individuals have suffered an incredible deal due to what he did,” Knox instructed  “Good Morning America” on the time.  “I proceed to remain to be shocked that he’s the forgotten killer. The one who was quietly tucked away, convicted of a lesser crime and doesn’t need to reside with the burden of being ceaselessly related to Meredith’s loss of life.”

“I’m the one who has been condemned to reside along with his infamy,” she continued. “And whereas I can not say that I want him struggling or imprisonment, I do want that he had been absolutely held accountable for what he did and that he acknowledged what he did, and I do not know if that may ever occur.”

“The one cause I exist is as a result of [of] what he did, and that could be a grave injustice.”