Amanda Knox has said that Gypsy Rose Blanchard is not yet free and that her mother, who was fatally stabbed by Blanchard’s boyfriend, “had it coming” for the years of abuse she inflicted upon her daughter.

Knox, who was wrongfully convicted of killing her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Italy in 2007, made the statements in a piece she penned for The Free Press on Saturday in which she revealed her own difficulties in trying to return to a normal life after being freed from prison in 2011 and fully exonerated. 

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, 32, was released from prison late last month having pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016, when she was 24, for her role in plotting to kill her abusive mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in their Missouri home in 2015 with help from her former boyfriend at the time.

Amanda Knox and Gypsy Rose Blanchard  ( Lou Rocco/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

Knox said that she needed to transcend the image of being “the girl accused of murder” and had to discuss parts of her case in public, but at the same time chose to keep much of her personal life private. She said that Gypsy Rose would face similar dilemmas. 

“It will take time for Gypsy to learn who she is on the other side of the tragedy that turned her into a household name,” Knox wrote.

“There’s a freedom to be found in keeping that growth and healing private.”

Fox News’ Audrey Conklin and Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.

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