Amanda Knox gives warning to students wanting to study abroad, 10 years after being acquitted of murder

Amanda Knox spent astir 4 years successful an Italian situation aft being accused of murdering her roommate portion studying abroad.

Italy's highest tribunal acquitted the now-37-year-old of execution successful 2015. Today, 10 years later, the joined parent of 2 said that if her kids ever privation to caput overseas for an education, she would springiness them her blessing.

Knox, whose publication "Free: My Search for Meaning" was precocious published, told Fox News Digital that she encourages students to survey overseas and travel. But she besides warned of the risks that travel with not staying intimately connected with loved ones erstwhile distant from home. 

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Amanda Knox is simply a joined parent of 2 and has since traveled to Italy. (Lucien Knuteson)

"I deliberation that it is, astir of the time, a life-changing experience," Knox said astir studying abroad. "I deliberation it makes america amended radical to prosecute with different cultures and different radical and spell extracurricular our comfortableness zones."

"I deliberation the happening that I would ever urge to anyone, immoderate idiosyncratic who’s abroad, is conscionable to retrieve that you are removed from your information net, that portion of your beingness you ne'er truly deliberation about, the 1 that is ever determination to perchance prime you up should you autumn down oregon get mislaid – that’s not determination anymore," she stressed.

Amanda Knox's caller book, "Free: My Search for Meaning," is retired now. (Grand Central Publishing)

Knox noted that this is "a clip successful our lives erstwhile we consciousness similar we are adults erstwhile we’re not, and we’re indestructible erstwhile we’re not."

"You should remember, particularly arsenic a young person, that asking for assistance does not marque you immoderate little of an idiosyncratic oregon an adult," she said. "In fact, knowing erstwhile and however to inquire for assistance is simply a precise big happening to do. So that’s what I would urge . . . conscionable beryllium a small much cautious. Ask for help. When successful doubt, ever trust connected different radical astir you. Always trust connected your family."

She besides encouraged different parents to let their children to dispersed their wings contempt their fears.

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Amanda Knox (right) is seen present successful 2011 acknowledging the cheers of supporters, alongside her mother. (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

"Don’t beryllium acrophobic to fto your children spell disconnected into the satellite and go the beauteous quality beings that they’re going to be," she said. "I deliberation 1 of the truly beauteous things that we person present is the quality to enactment successful interaction overmuch much than we were capable to bash backmost erstwhile I was studying abroad.

"Stay successful touch, beryllium there, connection support, beryllium determination for anything. Being bully listeners, I think, would beryllium the main happening that I would urge to parents. Kids don’t similar being told what to do, but perceive and beryllium that other information nett of paying attraction to thing that sounds sketchy, and conscionable connection support.

"Pay attraction to what your children accidental to you," Knox added.

Knox said she’s begun to dilatory unfastened up astir her past to her eldest child, property three, who has started asking questions.

Amanda Knox is seen connected the acceptable of the tv amusement "Cinque Minuti" astatine Rai Studios, connected June 10, 2024, successful Rome, Italy.  (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

"My girl is truthful astute . . . and she doesn’t truly person a consciousness of calamity yet," Knox explained. "She knows that things aren’t just sometimes, but she encounters the satellite successful presumption of fairytales and play. And so, having to pass with her connected her level successful immoderate mode means being playful – adjacent astir the worst acquisition of my life."

"She wants to play ‘Mama goes to Italy with me,’" Knox continued. "She’s interpreted that to mean if we spell to a parkland and there’s a spot wherever determination are bars, she’ll spell down the bars and benignant of shingle them and go, ‘Let maine out!’ 

"It’s conscionable truthful silly, and it conscionable truly puts it into a caller perspective. . . . She knows that mama was precise bittersweet for a agelong time, and mommy’s person was truly hurt. . . . It’s mind-boggling and also, super-relieving."

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British pupil Meredith Kercher was murdered connected Nov. 1, 2007.  (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

In her book, Knox described however radical often assumed she wouldn’t acceptable ft successful Italy again. She wrote that immoderate would adjacent apologize to her for suggesting having meal astatine an Italian restaurant. Knox said that, contempt what had happened to her successful Italy, she inactive loves the country's nutrient and culture. 

Knox returned to Italy successful 2019 arsenic a keynote talker for a transgression justness league hosted by the Italy Innocence Project.

Amanda Knox cries arsenic she addresses a sheet treatment titled "Trial by Media" during the Criminal Justice Festival astatine the Law University of Modena, bluish Italy, connected June 15, 2019. Knox was acquitted connected March 27, 2015. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images)

The Seattle autochthonal was a 20-year-old pupil successful Perugia studying overseas erstwhile British pupil Meredith Kercher was recovered stabbed to decease successful 2007. The 21-year-old was recovered successful the cottage the young women shared with 2 Italian women.

Amanda Knox is escorted by Italian constabulary connected Sept. 16, 2008, from Perugia's tribunal aft a proceeding successful Meredith Kercher's execution case.  (Antonio Calanni / AP)

The lawsuit made planetary headlines arsenic suspicion fell rapidly connected Knox and her fellow of conscionable days, Raffaele Sollecito. But different man, Rudy Guede, from the Ivory Coast, was yet convicted of execution aft his DNA was recovered astatine the transgression scene. The European tribunal ordered Italy to wage Knox damages for the constabulary failures, noting that she had been susceptible arsenic a overseas pupil not fluent successful Italian.

Amanda Knox, left, and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, of Italy, successful 2007, extracurricular the rented location wherever 21-year-old British pupil Meredith Kercher was recovered dormant successful Perugia, Italy. (File photo/ Associated Press)

Knox returned to the United States successful 2011, aft being freed by an appeals tribunal successful Perugia, and has established herself arsenic a planetary campaigner for the wrongly convicted. Over the years, she has attempted to wide her sanction of each transgression wrongdoing.

Today, Knox is connected the committee of directors of the Innocence Center, a nonprofit instrumentality steadfast that aims to escaped guiltless radical from prison. She besides often discusses however high-profile cases interaction loved ones successful a podcast she hosts with her husband, called "Labyrinths."

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Rudy Guede (right) was yet convicted of execution aft his DNA was recovered astatine the transgression scene.  (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

Guede, 37, was freed successful 2021, aft serving astir of his 16-year sentence.

In January of this year, Italy’s highest-ranking tribunal affirmed a slander uncovering against Knox for accusing an guiltless man, Patrick Lumumba, of murdering her flatmate.

Knox's defence squad said she had accused Lumumba, a Congolese antheral who employed her astatine a bar, during a agelong nighttime of questioning and nether unit from police, whom they said had fed her mendacious information. The European Court of Human Rights recovered that the constabulary had deprived her of a lawyer and provided a translator who acted much arsenic a mediator.

Patrick Lumumba speaks to the media arsenic helium leaves the Palazzo di Giustizia courthouse during a league for the last verdict of the Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito execution retrial connected March 25, 2015, successful Rome, Italy.  (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

Based connected Knox’s statements, Lumumba was brought successful for questioning, contempt having an ironclad alibi. His concern suffered, and helium yet moved to Poland with his Polish wife. He antecedently said that Knox "has ne'er apologized to me."

Knox does not hazard immoderate much clip successful jail. She has continued her ineligible conflict with the purpose of clearing her name.

Amanda Knox arrives with her husband, Christopher Robinson, astatine the courthouse successful Florence, connected June 5, 2024, earlier a proceeding successful a slander case, related to her jailing and aboriginal acquittal for the execution of her British roommate successful 2007.  (Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images)

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On a caller occurrence of her podcast, Knox said, "I hatred the information that I person to unrecorded with consequences for a transgression I did not commit."