{"id":261117,"date":"2026-09-02T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/amanda-knox-comedy-show-about-murder-case-draws-outrage-from-victims-family\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:02:20","slug":"amanda-knox-comedy-show-about-murder-case-draws-outrage-from-victims-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/amanda-knox-comedy-show-about-murder-case-draws-outrage-from-victims-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Knox: Comedy Show About Murder Case Draws Outrage From Victim&#8217;s Family"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2007, police in Italy arrested American student Amanda Knox following the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher.<\/p>\n<p>After being wrongly convicted and imprisoned for four years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/07\/amanda-knox-sexual-history-clapback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Knox was eventually exonerated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she\u2019s revisiting the events of that year in a comedy show called <em>Cartwheel<\/em> \u2014 so named because of the claim that she did a cartwheel after being arrested.<\/p>\n<p>And the Kercher family is failing to see the humor in the situation.<\/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\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2231050943-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Knox attends Hulu's 'The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox' New York Premiere at New York Historical Society on August 19, 2025 in New York City. \" class=\"wp-image-562268 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2231050943-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2231050943-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2231050943-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2231050943-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2231050943-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2231050943-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2231050943-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2231050943-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amanda Knox attends Hulu\u2019s \u2018The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox\u2019 New York Premiere at New York Historical Society on August 19, 2025 in New York City. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Santiago Felipe\/WireImage)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat I would say [to Knox] is to think about the family here, think about her friends and to turn the tables if it was your sister that this had happened to,\u201d Meredith\u2019s older sister, Stephanie Kercher, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0m7pyv3y7no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBC<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a pretty difficult request to ignore \u2014 particularly considering the tragedy at the center of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Meredith was just 21 when she was found stabbed to death in the apartment she shared with Knox while the two were studying abroad in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Knox, however, insists the show isn\u2019t making Meredith\u2019s murder the punchline.<\/p>\n<p>The former murder suspect says <em>Cartwheel<\/em> is instead about the experience of being publicly vilified and the challenges of explaining her past to her children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI joke a lot about how I was vilified, but I don\u2019t joke about her murder,\u201d Knox told the <em>Telegraph<\/em> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/radaronline.com\/p\/amanda-knox-murder-case-comedy-show-family-outrage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radar Online<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dcei8f6jhT0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>And while Knox insists she\u2019s not joking about the murder itself, a petition calling for the show\u2019s cancellation has reportedly collected more than 9,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Knox addressed the controversy on Instagram, explaining that <em>Cartwheel<\/em> is ultimately about motherhood, raising a daughter in what she describes as an unfair and dangerous world, and grappling with how much truth to tell her child.<\/p>\n<p>She also claimed the production \u201chonors Meredith Kercher\u2019s memory and calls out the violence that was done to her and to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meredith\u2019s family, however, may not see it quite that way.<\/p>\n<p>Rudy Guede, an acquaintance of Knox and Kercher, was ultimately convicted of Meredith\u2019s murder. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison and released in 2021 after serving 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>For Knox, the case became the defining trauma of her young adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>Now, nearly two decades after Meredith\u2019s death, she\u2019s attempting to reclaim the narrative through comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Whether audiences are ready to laugh along is another question entirely.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/09\/amanda-knox-comedy-show-about-murder-case-draws-outrage-from-victims-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in 2007, police in Italy arrested American student Amanda Knox following the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher. After being wrongly convicted and imprisoned for four years, Knox was eventually exonerated. Now, she\u2019s revisiting the events of that year in a comedy show called Cartwheel \u2014 so named because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261117","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\/261117","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=261117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}