In an interview with People magazine, Amanda Knox said she can be “paralyzed” with anxiety concerning her extremely public, international case, according to the Associated Press.
The interview at her mother’s Seattle home has not been made public. However, People magazine made a couple excerpts available to AP.
"When Meredith was murdered and I was arrested, it was so shocking. It was paralyzing. Everything toppled," Knox said.
Knox returned home to Seattle after her acquittal for the murder of her former roommate, Meredith Kercher, was overturned in an Italian courtroom.
Family spokesperson David Marriot says Knox will most likely not return to Italy for the trial. Italian law cannot force a defendant to be in the courtroom during the trial.
In the interview Knox, 25, said the situation has been hard to deal with.
"Things creep up on me and all of a sudden I'm overwhelmed by the feeling of helplessness and that desperation and fear to even hope," she said. "Just that can make my heart race and makes me paralyzed until I can breathe it away."
Italian prosecutors say Knox, former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and a third man, murdered Kercher in a sexual assault fueled by drugs.
Knox and Sollecito were previously sentenced to prison time of 26 years and 25 years respectively. However, the two were acquitted in 2011.
"She thought that the nightmare was over," Dalla Vedova, a lawyer on Knox’s legal team, said to reporters after the acquittal was overturned according to Fox News. "(But) she's ready to fight."
The only one currently serving time for the killing is an Ivorian man who is currently serving a sentence of 16 years.
Since returning to Seattle, Knox has been taking classes at the University of Washington and spending her time doing outdoor activities. For the most part the local press has left her alone.
Knox’s memoir, “Waiting to Be Heard,” is set to hit stores April 30. The interview with People will appear in the magazine’s April 26 edition.
