Amanda Knox Kercher grave: Amanda Knox pleaded with the family of Meredith Kercher to allow her to visit the slain woman’s grave.
Kercher, a U.K. student, was Knox’s roommate while the two attended a university in Italy as exchange students. Five years ago, Knox and her boyfriend were accused of killing Kercher.
Knox, who spent several years in prison but was later acquitted, told USA Today that “I really want to go see her grave,” referring to Kercher, who was buried in Mitcham, located in southern London.
“And right now I don’t feel like I have the right to without her family’s permission. So that’s something that I want to work toward to get closure,” she added.
Stephanie Kercher, the sister of the slain woman, told the Daily Telegraph that they have “no interest” in the upcoming book written by Knox.
“I have no doubts that on the other side there is a story of pain and loss and enormous mistrust but in the end it is also one of hope and the opportunity to live life,” Kercher said. “Something Meredith will never have and something we can never share with her. Meredith is the victim in this tragic case.”
Knox, who faces a re-trial in Italy, told ABC News she would “like to be reconsidered as a person. What happened to me was surreal but it could’ve happened to anyone.”
Knox told ABC’s Diane Sawyer the high court’s decision was “incredibly painful” and she felt as if she had to crawl through another field of barbed wire after reaching what she thought was the end.
She said she was aware of being labeled a seductress, she-devil and other names in the media, but she said “they’re wrong.”
“I was in the courtroom when they were calling me a devil,” she told Sawyer in interview excerpts posted online. “It’s one thing to be called certain things in the media, and it’s another thing to be sitting in a courtroom fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil.
“For all intents and purposes I was a murderer, whether I was or not. I had to live with the idea that that would be my life,” she said during the interview.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
