Amanda Knox, who was convicted and aboriginal acquitted of murdering British pupil Meredith Kercher successful Italy successful 2007, has defended her solo drama amusement pursuing calls for it to beryllium cancelled.
The sold-out amusement called Cartwheel, which Knox volition execute astatine the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, discusses motherhood and however she volition explicate the lawsuit to her daughter.
Knox told the BBC she is not the archetypal idiosyncratic to usage drama to speech astir traumatic events and said her worldly focuses connected "how the satellite is unsafe and unfair towards women".
But Stephanie Kercher, the victim's sister, said she is acrophobic it volition "normalise and trivialise" unit against women, and Meredith, successful particular.
Speaking connected BBC Breakfast, Stephanie Kercher, said: "What I would accidental [to Knox] is to deliberation astir the household here, deliberation astir her friends and to crook the tables if it was your sister that this had happened to, due to the fact that I cognize you person a sister arsenic well."
Responding to the comments, Knox said: "The absorbing irony of that is that my girl is simply a immense information for maine doing this show.
"It's astir however the satellite is unsafe and unfair towards women and what it means to rise a girl successful that world, knowing however atrocious it tin be.
"If they [Kercher's family] saw my show, they would recognise that."
A petition against the show, acceptable up by a person of Meredith, has been signed by astir 5,000 people.
It states the amusement disrespects her representation and risks making airy of specified a harrowing event.
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