Amanda Knox has been convicted a second time for the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2009, and compared her feelings to a person receiving a cancer diagnosis.
In an interview with The Guardian U.K., Knox said she feels safer in the United States than should would in Italy, but knows anyone can brand her as a killer, even after her conviction was previously overturned.
"Oh God, it has a practical impact on my wellbeing and psychology on a very fundamental level. I feel stranded. Granted, I feel so much safer here in the US, where people still believe in me, but when I talked to you about feeling marked - being marked as an exoneree is one thing and being marked as a criminal is another," Knox told The Guardian.
"It hurts. It's not OK. People have been quiet and respectful, but it's like I've just been diagnosed with cancer," Knox added. "There's nowhere I can go where there's not this knowledge that I'm this girl who is convicted again. I'm never going to be OK with the idea that somebody can quote some judge's decision and say I'm a convicted murderer."
Knox took to "Good Morning America" to proclaim her innocence despite the Italian court's guilty verdict in January.
"I'm going to do everything I can," Knox told GMA. "Granted, I need a lot of help. I can't do this on my own. I can't help people understand this on my own. There are people who know better than I do the way these systems work, and the way that there was this entirely preventable thing that happened that was systematic. I really hope that people try to understand that when you have overzealous prosecutors and when you have a biased investigation and coercive interrogations, these things happen. I'm not crazy."
