Amanda Knox claims she is penniless after facing libel lawsuits over her memoir but says 'she is not going to change her story'Amanda Knox has revealed that she is almost broke because of her huge legal bills - despite a $1.5million book advance.
Knox said that her future is ‘very unsure for me financially’ because she has spent so much clearing her name.
She will be paid a reported $4million in total for her memoir Waiting To Be Heard but claimed that her retrial and a potential libel lawsuits will leave her penniless.
Publicity drive: Amanda Knox appears on GMA earlier this month to promote her memoir
Knox also revealed that to make money in the future she will be writing more books and will be taking a creative writing course at the University of Washington, near her home in Seattle.
The prospect will inevitably cause further anguish to the family of Meredith Kercher, 21, the British student and her former room mate who she was accused of killing in 2007 in Perugia, Italy.
They are already angry at the string of interviews Knox has given to promote the book in which she has tried to portray herself as a victim of a gross injustice.
Speaking to the Toronto Post she said that she is scared and uncertain how she will get by in the years to come.
Knox, 25, said: ‘I don’t know what I am going to do. The future is very unsure for me financially.’
Her book could trigger a wave of costly libel lawsuits from police and prosecutors in Italy who she claims framed her, but Knox was unrepentant.
She said: ‘People asked me if I would change the book and I said absolutely not.
‘I am not going to change my story just because someone is threatening to sue me but I mean it sucks. It sucks and it sucks.’
Knox did not elaborate on what kind writing she will undertake in the future but said that it was ‘crushing’ to read the book by Miss Kercher’s father John in which he called on her to ‘come clean’.
Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were initially found guilty for the murder of Miss Kercher but were acquitted in 2011.
In the latest of many twists in the case, the Italian Supreme Court ruled in March that both Knox and Sollecito will face a retrial.
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