Amanda Knox Still Suffers Panic Attack

Amanda Knox is an American woman. In 2009 was convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Umbria, Italy. Knox was born in Seattle, Washington, to Edda Mellas, a math teacher, and Curt Knox, a vice president of finance at Macy’s. The couple divorced when Knox was a toddler.

In 2007, Knox moved to Perugia, Italy to study Italian, German and creative writing at the University of Foreigners of one year. On 1st November 2007, Meredith Kercher was murdered in the apartment she shared with Knox. On 6th November 2007, Knox was arrested by the Italian police and along with Sollecito, charged with the murder of Kercher. Knox spent almost four years in jail

The 26-year-old who spent more than three and a half years behind bars before acquitted by an Italian appeals court of murder says she continues to suffer panic attacks and nightmares in the days after.

“I was continuing to have panic attacks and nightmares, and I was continuing to think that strangers on the street were prisoners that I had known,” she recently told ABC News.

“I had panic attacks and just broke down. And I couldn’t breathe,” she described of her first episodes while jailed for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher.