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Amanda Knox Fires Back at Matt Damon After He Said 'Being Canceled Is Worse Than a Jail Sentence'
Amanda Knox criticized Matt Damon's claim that jail is preferable to cancel culture, highlighting the lasting stigma of wrongful imprisonment and her prison reform advocacy.
- Amanda Knox revived her feud with Matt Damon after he suggested jail might be preferable to being canceled during Joe Rogan's podcast.
- Amanda Knox, former convict and activist, and Raffaele Sollecito, Knox's then-boyfriend, were wrongly convicted in the 2007 Meredith Kercher murder in Perugia, Italy, spending nearly four years in prison before acquittal.
- In 2021, Knox criticized Stillwater and Damon's involvement, saying the film drew on her case and held its fictional character partly responsible, leading audiences to apply those conclusions to her.
- The Independent contacted Damon's representative after Knox reshared his remarks on X, where she wrote: 'You don’t get to go to prison in secret,' and added that 'People commit suicide in prison, too,' responding to a critic.
- Commentators say the exchange highlights tensions over dramatizing real cases, noting Matt Damon’s remarks on public excoriation 'just never ends' reopened debate on cancel culture versus legal punishment.
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The Independent (US)Amanda Knox slams Matt Damon’s comments comparing cancel culture to jail time
Knox previously criticized Damon’s 2021 movie ‘Stillwater’ over its similarities to her case
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Amanda Knox fires back at Matt Damon's opinion about actors preferring jail · American Wire News
Amanda Knox is weighing in on Matt Damon’s recent podcast appearance, in which he talked about cancel culture. Knox has taken issue with the actor in the past, as he starred in a movie about her arrest and imprisonment, so it’s no surprise that a recent “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast episode featuring Damon and co-star Ben Affleck would be on her radar. The two discussed cancel culture and the effects it has on those who are targeted, with D…
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