Amanda Knox’s Bold Response to Leaked Diary Confession
Stand tall and lean in – today’s story is a masterclass in owning your narrative. Amanda Knox has delivered a powerful reply after a private diary entry about her first seven partners before age 20 was publicized by Italian authorities. The 38-year-old author and advocate took to X on July 15 to confront critics over a 2007 journal note she wrote during her interrogation in the Meredith Kercher case. Under the false impression she had HIV, Knox was instructed by police to list every intimate partner, only to have that entry seized and leaked to the press.
Knox’s original entry read, “I don’t know where I could have gotten HIV from,” followed by a straightforward list of names. In her recent post she acknowledged, “After years of being vilified as a deviant sex monster, I couldn’t help but internalize some of that shame, despite the fact that I knew there was nothing wrong with my sexuality (which was actually quite vanilla).” She made it clear her private reflections were never meant for public consumption.
The online response was mixed, until one user quipped, “Sleeping with seven guys before the age of 19 is like so vanilla.” Knox did not shy away. She reminded the troll why she wrote every word in that secret diary: “Yes, I slept with seven people by age 20. Three were serious boyfriends, one was Raffaele. This was made public after police lied to me that I had HIV, then told me to write a list of my partners, then confiscated my diary and leaked it to the media. ‘I don’t want to die,’ I wrote.”
Her bold rebuttal highlights the larger injustice she faced from the start. Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were first convicted in 2009, retried in 2011 and ultimately declared innocent by Italy’s highest court in 2015 when judges ruled the evidence was flawed. In 2019, the European Court of Human Rights determined her original interrogation violated her rights and awarded her $20,000 in compensation. While testifying in Strasbourg, Knox described her ordeal: when she failed to recall every detail of that harrowing night, an officer struck her lightly on the head and shouted, remember, remember, until she signed a statement she did not truly understand.
Her story has since been chronicled in a Netflix documentary and continues to spark debate about police tactics and media intrusion. Knox, now a mother of two with husband Christopher Robinson, remains focused on transforming past traumas into lessons in empowerment.
Keep your eyes on Amanda’s next move – she’s proving that transparency and truth can never be silenced. Keep pushing forward and stay inspired!
Sources: Celebrity Storm and E! News, NBC News
Attribution: Stephen Brashear (Creative Commons)
