A decade after Amanda Knox was initially convicted of murder in Italy, the fully exonerated author and prison reform activist will be offering advice in her own Seattle newspaper column.
The new column, “Ask Amanda Knox,” will run in the weekly print and digital news outlet Westside Seattle, the Guardian reported. Knox, who has previously contributed to the paper as both a writer and photographer, will be answering reader-submitted questions “about life, love, suffering and meaning,” Westside Seattle announced.
News of the forthcoming advice column comes as the latest installment in Knox’s flourishing public life post-exoneration. In the years since she was twice convicted and later twice acquitted for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate while studying abroad in Italy, Knox has spoken publicly about her experience in a best-selling memoir, Netflix documentary and various op-eds penned for outlets including Vice and the Los Angeles Times.
Unfortunately, but perhaps unsurprisingly, not everyone thinks that an accomplished writer, speaker and activist who has overcome profound injustice and international public scrutiny is the best person to be giving advice.
“No. Just no,” wrote one Facebook user in a reply to a Westside Seattle post announcing the new advice column, which the user slammed as “advice from America’s most infamous student killer.”
In an editor’s note published Monday, which appears to have since been deleted, Westside Seattle explained that Knox’s four years in prison “for a murder she didn’t commit” gave her “a unique perspective on life.”
Knox, for her part, seems largely unbothered by the criticism, taking to Twitter to share her Halloween costume: “woman who dares to continue to exist.”
This Halloween, I'm going as "woman who dares to continue to exist."
— Amanda Knox (@amandaknox) October 31, 2019
The paper has not yet announced when the column will launch. Westside Seattle is published by the family of Knox’s husband, Christopher Robinson, whom Knox wed earlier this year. According to the paper’s director of new media, Patrick Robinson, Knox will not be payed for the column, but has chosen to contribute simply “to use her life experience in a positive way.”
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