Amanda Knox Slams New Criticism After Intimate Diary Entry from Prison Resurfaces Online

Amanda Knox is speaking out after a deeply personal piece of her past — a handwritten diary entry from her time in Italian prison — resurfaced on social media and began circulating anew. 

Knox, now 37, took to X (formerly Twitter) to address the attention surrounding a resurfaced photo of the list she wrote while incarcerated in 2007. 

The diary page names seven men she’d slept with by the age of 20, including her then-boyfriend and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito. 

“Yes, I slept with 7 people by age 20. (3 were serious boyfriends; 1 was Raffaele.),” Knox wrote in her post. “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.”

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The resurfaced entry, originally leaked during the high-profile case surrounding the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, includes intimate details about Knox’s past relationships and her emotional state in custody. 

“I had a raging headache because this is by far the worst experience of my life. I’m in prison for a crime I didn’t commit, I might have HIV,” the entry reads. “I don’t want to die. I want to get married and have children… Why why why? I can’t believe this… I don’t know where I could have got HIV from.”

Knox has long maintained her innocence in the Kercher case, and in 2015, Italy’s highest court definitively exonerated her and Sollecito. 

Now a writer and advocate, Knox says the renewed focus on the old diary page underscores the invasive scrutiny she faced — and continues to face.

“It’s so outdated, so dumb, and so frustrating to still be dealing with this,” she added in a follow-up post.