Amanda Knox trades courtroom drama for comedy stage success
Amanda Knox is pursuing a comedy career more than 16 years after she was wrongfully convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Italy.
"I think that finding the ability to laugh at the bad things that have happened to you and find the absurdity in the human condition [is very important]," the 38-year-old author - who performed at the Ice House in Pasadena, Calif., on Wednesday - said of her surprising career move, per the Sun.
"I really love how comedy allows me to feel connected to other people," she added. "It's a way of turning the temperature down a little bit and making fun of myself."
Knox previously discussed her entertainment aspirations during an interview with her husband, Christopher Robinson, for the Hollywood Reporter in January.
"I've been blessed with really lovely friendships in the comedy community, particularly with female comedians who recognize my sense of humor," she told the outlet earlier this year.
"I do stand-up comedy here at home, and I am working currently on a one-woman show that I'm hoping I can get out either this year or next," Knox continued.
While Robinson, 38, said that his wife took a "nontraditional route into the comedy world," Knox noted that she performed during "The Roast of Whitney Cummings" at the Comedy Store in May 2023.
Knox first made headlines in 2007 when her English-born roommate, Kercher, was brutally murdered in Perugia, Italy.
The "Waiting to Be Heard" author and her then-boyfriend, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, were arrested for the murder.
Accused burglar Rudy Guede was also arrested after his bloody fingerprints were found on some of Kercher's possessions.
Knox and Sollecito were both found guilty in 2009 and sentenced to over 20 years in prison. However, the pair's convictions were overturned by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation in 2011 and they were acquitted.
After Italy's top court overturned Knox's acquittal and ordered a new trial in 2013, a Florence court convicted Knox a second time and sentenced her to 28 years in 2014.
Italy's Supreme Court went on to definitively clear Knox and Sollecito of all wrongdoing in 2015.
Knox and Robinson, meanwhile, met in 2015 when she was assigned to review one of his books for a local Seattle newspaper.
