'I felt like after crawling through a field of barbed wire and finally reaching what I thought was the end, it just turned out that it was the horizon,' Amanda Knox told ABC's Diana Sawyer in her first television interview, which premieres on Tuesday night..
Italy's Court of Cessation, the country's highest court, threw out her 2011 acquittal and ordered a new trial last month.
Knox is a student at the University of Washington who was initially found guilty after her roommate Meredith Kercher's throat was slashed and body was found in the bedroom she shared with Knox and others in Perugia, an Italian university town where the two women were exchange students.
Her murder, the courts said, was a result of a drug-fueled sex game gone wrong. Knox and ex-boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito denied all wrongdoings, also saying they were not in the apartment on that evening, but they acknowledged their smoking marijuana may have impaired their memories, court documents revealed.
ABC News Primetime Special on Tuesday evening is the first in-depth interview Knox has given since returning to Seattle. She also has a memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, due out on Tuesday.
"I was in the courtroom when they were calling me a devil. It's one thing to be called certain things in the media, it's another thing to be sitting in the courtroom, fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil," Knox told Sawyer.
Knox is not required to return to Italy for the new proceedings and will not be extradited, according to the report. Her lawyer told ABC that he expects the new trial to begin next year.
"For all intents and purposes, I was a murderer; whether I was or not. And I had to live with the idea that would be my life," she said. "It's not fair that there is not a satisfactory answer for what happened to Meredith, and the attention that's been taken away from her and what happened to her is not fair," she added.
