Amanda Knox and Lorena Bobbitt say they’ve learned they have “a lot in common.”
The pair appeared over the weekend at a true crime festival in Washington, DC, for a talk about how they were “vilified” in the media during their criminal cases.
“Lorena and I have a lot in common,” Knox told Fox5. “The thing that resonates with me when we first spoke to each other over the phone is that this is a historic moment for shamed and vilified women.”
Knox, now 32, was accused of her 21-year-old British roommate Meredith Kercher’s murder in Perugia, Italy. She was found guilty in 2009 before she was acquitted by an appeals court and released.
Bobbitt made headlines in June 1993 when she hacked off her snoozing husband’s penis with a kitchen knife. The 49-year-old — who has maintained that she was a victim of domestic violence and rape — was found not guilty for the crime due to insanity.
Both Knox and Bobbitt have appeared in recent documentaries about their cases to set the record straight.
“Thanks to documentaries, we have basically reclaimed our narratives,” Bobbitt said. “Now people know our stories, know the truth.”
Knox said the media attention during the trials was “turning us into characters that are in morality plays and exploiting our trauma.”
“We are showing not only are we [not] the characters that you thought we are, but we are human beings,” she said.