{"id":181033,"date":"2025-07-16T13:42:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/amanda-knox-claps-back-at-sex-shamer-over-7-prior-partners\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T13:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:42:30","slug":"amanda-knox-claps-back-at-sex-shamer-over-7-prior-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/amanda-knox-claps-back-at-sex-shamer-over-7-prior-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Knox Claps Back at Sex-Shamer Over &#8216;7&#8217; Prior Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amanda Knox is no longer a 20-year-old victim of a malicious police investigation.<\/p>\n<p>She has overcome a toxic media circus, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2015\/03\/amanda-knox-italian-cout-overturns-murder-conviction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unjust conviction<\/a>, and a mountain of stigma.<\/p>\n<p>Because 2025 appears to just be an unending nightmare for everyone, people on social media have tried to <em>shame <\/em>her for her sexual history.<\/p>\n<p>In a new interview, Knox is hitting back at that, and unpacking the ways in which <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_01-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Knox in 2019.\" class=\"wp-image-530149 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_01-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_01-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_01-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_01-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_01-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_01-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_01-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Journalist Amanda Knox delivers a speech during a panel session entitled \u2018Trial by Media\u2019 during the first edition of the Criminal Justice Festival.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo Credit: Emanuele Cremaschi\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-amanda-knox-internalized-a-lot-of-baseless-shame\">Amanda Knox internalized a lot of baseless shame<\/h2>\n<p>On Wednesday, July 15, Amanda Knox took to social media to post a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/amandaknox\/status\/1945210586620469423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweets<\/a> reflecting upon <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter years of being vilified as a deviant sex monster, I couldn\u2019t help but internalize some of that shame,\u201d she began her thread.<\/p>\n<p>Knox acknowledged that this was \u201cdespite the fact that I knew there was nothing wrong with my sexuality (which was actually quite vanilla).\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"868\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-1024x868.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Knox in 2011.\" class=\"wp-image-530150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-1024x868.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-768x651.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-2048x1737.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-960x814.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-1080x916.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-1200x1018.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"868\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-1024x868.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Knox in 2011.\" class=\"wp-image-530150 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-1024x868.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-768x651.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-2048x1737.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-960x814.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-1080x916.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-1200x1018.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_02-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amanda Knox is escorted to her appeal hearing at Perugia\u2019s Court of Appeal on September 29, 2011.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo Credit: Oli Scarff\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI cut my long hair down to a bob, I donned nerdy big glasses,\u201d Knox recalled. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t dare wear a short skirt or a bikini to the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She wrote: \u201cI felt like I had to suppress any desire to look pretty in public lest I be accused of being that femme fatale the media painted me as.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remember, long before the tabloid circus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/06\/meghan-markle-rose-diana-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">targeting Meghan Markle<\/a>, many Americans had their first taste of UK tabloid culture in the form of a brutal and baseless smear campaign against Knox.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Knox on June 13, 2019.\" class=\"wp-image-530151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Knox on June 13, 2019.\" class=\"wp-image-530151 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_03-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former US convict Amanda Knox attends a cocktail event on the eve of the opening of the Criminal Justice Festival, at the Law University of Modena, northern Italy on June 13, 2019. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo Credit: MARCO BERTORELLO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis also impacted me in my intimate life,\u201d Amanda Knox reflected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlowly, I realized that I didn\u2019t have to apologize for my sexuality,\u201d she affirmed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it took me a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knox added: \u201cAnd I WISH I\u2019d been able to chat with the inimitable Dan Savage about these things years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was a pleasure to get into this thorny topic with him, and unpack how we form narratives about our sexuality, and what a healthy relationship with your own intimate side looks like. Please listen! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/re8oWV7owZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/re8oWV7owZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amanda Knox (@amandaknox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amandaknox\/status\/1945210593822331027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt was a pleasure to get into this thorny topic with him,\u201d Knox wrote, alongside a video of the interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd unpack how we form narratives about our sexuality,\u201d she continued, \u201cand what a healthy relationship with your own intimate side looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knox urged her followers: \u201cPlease listen!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Knox at court in 2024.\" class=\"wp-image-530153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-1080x719.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Knox at court in 2024.\" class=\"wp-image-530153 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-1080x719.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_04-scaled.jpg\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amanda Knox arrives at the courthouse in Florence, on June 5, 2024 before a hearing in a slander case, related to her jailing and later acquittal for the murder of her British roommate in 2007.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo Credit: TIZIANA FABI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-would-someone-try-to-shame-amanda-knox\">Why would someone try to \u2018shame\u2019 Amanda Knox?<\/h2>\n<p>Much of this was a response to recent shaming. In a diary entry from almost 20 years ago, Amanda Knox listed her sexual history at the time.<\/p>\n<p>It was a short list \u2014 only 7 partners. And the reason for which she made the list was that Italian police had claimed to her (falsely) that she had contracted HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Most people understand that <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-1024x736.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Knox in 2015.\" class=\"wp-image-530155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-1024x736.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-2048x1472.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-960x690.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-1080x776.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-1200x863.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-1024x736.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Knox in 2015.\" class=\"wp-image-530155 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-1024x736.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-2048x1472.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-960x690.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-1080x776.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-1200x863.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0716_amandaknox_05-scaled.jpg\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amanda Knox speaks to the media during a brief press conference in front of her parents\u2019 home March 27, 2015.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo Credit: Stephen Brashear\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a now-deleted reply, one user sarcastically wrote: \u201cSleeping with 7 guys before the age of 19 is like so vanilla.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>7 is not a large number of sexual partners. There is nothing wrong with sleeping with a large number of sexual partners, very few, or none at all. But 7 is just not that many.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I slept with 7 people by age 20. (3 were serious boyfriends; 1 was Raffaele.)\u201d Knox replied. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 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. \u2018I don\u2019t want to die,\u2019 I wrote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you think that 7 is a lot of sexual partners for you, that\u2019s fine! Maybe don\u2019t make your hangup into Amanda Knox\u2019s problem.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/07\/amanda-knox-sexual-history-clapback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 4 minutes Amanda Knox is no longer a 20-year-old victim of a malicious police investigation. She has overcome a toxic media circus, an unjust conviction, and a mountain of stigma. Because 2025 appears to just be an unending nightmare for everyone, people on social media have tried to shame her for her sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-181033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}