Amanda Knox said the four years she spent in an Italian prison defined who she is today and spoke about the pain she went through.
In the rare appearance Thursday, Knox, 30, spoke in front of a panel of lawyers with the Westside Bar Association about her two convictions forthe 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, before she was acquitted, according to the Daily Mail.
The two were studying in Perugia, Italy, when Knox found Kercher murdered in their shared apartment.
Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted for the murder. Knox, who was 20 at the time, spent four years in prison until she were released and acquitted in 2011.
"I went into prison as not yet a woman and I came out an adult woman and that period defined me," she told KTLA Thursday.
In her appearance Thursday, the Seattle native was also promoting her memoir and the Netflix documentary about her trials and convictions.
"I realized the courtroom was actually a battleground for storytelling. Where the most compelling story and not necessarily the most truthful wins," she said, Fox 11 reported.
Amanda Knox.
"The truth doesn't fit in a headline or a tweet or a fairytale format."
Knox has also dedicated her life to helping the wrongly convicted through work with organizations including the Innocence Project.
When she spoke at the panel on Thursday, Knox said she wants to use her experience to help others.
"I have to tell my story so that the echo of it can reach people.
"I just want to show that it's not this distant difficult to understand thing. It's a human thing that can happen to anyone at anytime. No one is safe, but we can understand it."
