Rome, 7 Aug. (LaPresse) – Controversy continues to swirl around ‘Cartwheel’, the stand-up comedy show that Amanda Knox is set to perform tonight at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In the show, Knox will recount the legal proceedings in Italy in which she was the central figure in the 2007 murder case of Meredith Kercher, from which she was definitively acquitted by the Court of Cassation in 2015, alongside her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. Meredith’s family have protested against the comedy, with her sister Stephanie telling the BBC: “What I would say (to Knox, ed.) is to think about the family, about her friends, and to think about what it would be like if it had happened to her sister, because I know she has a sister too. Our family’s pain is immense. I cannot explain to you how much pain we have suffered, and we are still talking about this pain twenty years on.” Not only that: a friend of Meredith’s has launched an online petition to stop the show, signed by nearly 5,000 people. Knox commented on this initiative on Instagram: ““Cartwheel” is a show about motherhood, about raising a daughter in a world that is unjust and dangerous for women, and about the price you pay for being the kind of mother who tells her the truth about all of this. Neither the author of this petition nor anyone who has signed it has seen ‘Cartwheel’. The petition contains many false assumptions and completely misrepresents the show. ‘Cartwheel’ honours the memory of Meredith Kercher and denounces the violence that was inflicted on her and on me.”
Amanda Knox defends her comedy show: “It honours Meredith’s memory”
Rome, 7 Aug. (LaPresse) – Controversy continues to swirl around ‘Cartwheel’, the stand-up comedy show that Amanda Knox is set to perform tonight at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In the show, Knox will recount the legal proceedings in Italy in which she was the central figure in the 2007 murder case of Meredith Kercher, from which she was definitively acquitted by the Court of Cassation in 2015, alongside her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. Meredith’s family have protested against the comedy, with her sister Stephanie telling the BBC: “What I would say (to Knox, ed.) is to think about the family, about her friends, and to think about what it would be like if it had happened to her sister, because I know she has a sister too. Our family’s pain is immense. I cannot explain to you how much pain we have suffered, and we are still talking about this pain twenty years on.” Not only that: a friend of Meredith’s has launched an online petition to stop the show, signed by nearly 5,000 people. Knox commented on this initiative on Instagram: ““Cartwheel” is a show about motherhood, about raising a daughter in a world that is unjust and dangerous for women, and about the price you pay for being the kind of mother who tells her the truth about all of this. Neither the author of this petition nor anyone who has signed it has seen ‘Cartwheel’. The petition contains many false assumptions and completely misrepresents the show. ‘Cartwheel’ honours the memory of Meredith Kercher and denounces the violence that was inflicted on her and on me.”