In an essay Thursday, Amanda Knox called out the upcoming Matt Damon-led crime drama “Stillwater” — a fictional story similar to Knox’s own harrowing experience being wrongly convicted of the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher, and her six-year-long legal battel to prove her innocence — for using her life story as inspiration without her consent and in a way she argues is a slander.
Knox then used the matter as a jumping off point for a wide ranging discussion of sexism, erasure of victims from their own stories, and the often abusive and unfair treatment she’s received in the press and popular culture since she was first became a public figure following her arrest.