Amanda Knox has said she faces an 'ongoing struggle' to live with the public's 'made up version of herself' - a decade after she was released from jail over her British flatmate's murder.
It is almost 14 years to the day that 21-year-old student Meredith Kercher was raped and killed in a brutal attack in the apartment they shared in the Italian city of Perugia.
As details of the case built up, attention quickly turned to Knox, then a 20-year-old US student, and what has been described as an attempt to build a narrative around her and her then-boyfriend as prime suspects.
She was found guilty along with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and serving four years in prison, but was released in 2011 to return to the US.
Amanda Knox has said she faces an 'ongoing struggle' to live with the public's 'made up version of herself' - a decade after she was released from jail over her British flatmate's murder
Speaking to Woman's Hour, she said the media scrum following the conviction and later release made her lose control of her identity.
'I think that there was an incredible violation of my privacy. But also a capitalisation upon my identity that often had nothing to do with me,' she told BBC presenter Emma Barnett.
'People vehemently stood for one side or the other and were unable… again there was the sense of confirmation bias you see what you want to see.'
A decade has now passed since her release but interest in the murder case was renewed when she was again found guilty on new evidence before finally getting a full exoneration by the Italian Supreme Court on appeal in 2015.
It is almost 14 years to the day that 21-year-old student Meredith Kercher was raped and killed in a brutal attack in the apartment they shared in the Italian city of Perugia
Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 36, were convicted of Kercher's murder in 2009 before being acquitted, convicted again and then finally definitely cleared in 2015. Pictured: The former couple in 2007, shortly after Kercher's body was found
Speaking of how the case would have been viewed today, she said: 'It's interesting. I think that it would be… I would hope that people would have been more sceptical about that portrayal of events today.
'That said, I think that
