Amanda Knox fires back at Matt Damon over cancel…
Amanda Knox revived her feud with Matt Damon after the actor and his “The Rip” co-star Ben Affleck weighed in on cancel tradition.
During a latest interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Damon, 55, and Affleck, 53, shared their ideas on how cancel tradition may be taken to extremes. At one level in their dialogue, Damon recommended that for some public figures, the perpetual ostracization and scrutiny of being canceled is worse than a jail sentence.
“I bet some of those people would have preferred to go to jail for 18 months or whatever and then come out and say, ‘No, but I paid my debt. Like, we’re done. Like, can we be done?’” Damon said. “Like, the thing about getting kind of excoriated publicly like that, it just never ends. And it’s the first thing that… you know, it just will follow you to the grave.”
After the podcast episode was launched Jan. 16, Knox, 38, who beforehand slammed Damon for starring in a 2021 film impressed by her real-life wrongful conviction and imprisonment, called the Oscar winner out again on social media.
“Another thing Matt Damon could have run by me before putting out into the world,” she wrote on X, previously Twitter, alongside a Variety article about Damon’s cancel tradition feedback.
Amanda Knox called out Matt Damon for feedback he not too long ago made evaluating enduring cancel tradition to serving jail time. Amanda Knox / Instagram
Knox spent 4 years in prison after she and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito have been twice convicted and later acquitted in the 2007 homicide of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy. The two have been launched from prison in October 2011.
After Knox shared her post, she replied to a number of X customers who commented in the thread.
“Yeah, well, literally going to jail…not so good,” wrote journalist Katherine Brodsky. “But frankly, given that some of these ‘cancelled’ people have taken their own lives, yeah, maybe they would have preferred to go to jail for 18 months and be done with it — instead, there’s no end to it. No coming back. No being ‘square.’”
“People commit suicide in prison, too,” Knox responded.
“Amanda is unfamiliar with the word some!” another social media person commented.
During a latest interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Damon, 55, and Affleck, 53, shared their ideas on how cancel tradition may be taken to extremes. Serena Xu Ning/UPI/Shutterstock
“You’re missing the point,” Knox replied. “You don’t get to go to prison in secret. It comes with its own stigma and lasting trauma. You don’t just get to ‘be done with it,’ personally or socially.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Damon’s consultant for remark.
After being launched from prison, Knox returned to the United States and turned an outspoken advocate for felony justice reform with a focus on the wrongfully convicted and media ethics.
She has penned two memoirs about her experiences, including 2013’s “Waiting to Be Heard” and 2025’s “Free: My Search for Meaning” and also hosts the “Hard Knox” podcast.
After Damon’s film “Stillwater” was launched in July 2021, Knox denounced the movie in a viral thread on X. “Stillwater,” which was directed by Tom McCarthy, stars Damon as a father whose daughter was convicted of killing her roommate and imprisoned in France. The film follows Damon’s character as he travels from Oklahoma to France where he units out on a quest to show his daughter’s innocence.
Knox spent 4 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted in the homicide of her roommate in Italy. REUTERS
McCarthy beforehand confirmed that the film was impressed by Knox’s real-life case. Knox slammed the filmmakers for additional linking her title to Kercher’s homicide after she was exonerated and also took issue with the twist in the film’s storyline, which deviated from precise occasions and solid doubt on the innocence of the character based on her.
During an August 2021 interview with Variety, Knox explained why she felt it was needed to go after Damon and McCarthy over their handling of her story in “Stillwater.”
“Wrongful convictions don’t just happen to the individual. They happen to a whole network of human beings who love this person and know that they’re innocent and fight for their innocence,” she explained.
Knox went on to be aware that the film’s choice to make the character she impressed considerably culpable in the homicide meant that the traces between actuality and fiction weren’t blurred in a accountable approach, making it laborious for her not to really feel like Damon and McCarthy have been opening wounds she’s labored laborious to put behind her.
Knox beforehand slammed Damon for starring in 2021’s “Stillwater.” MediaPunch / BACKGRID
“I don’t think that the filmmakers can honestly say that they went far enough away from my case so that it wouldn’t be recognizably my case,” she told the outlet. “And I think that that’s clear in all of the coverage where everyone’s like, ‘Oh, this is recognizably the Amanda Knox case.’ And from that audiences can then draw conclusions about me, whether or not those conclusions are accurate or not.”
She added: “The question that Tom McCarthy really has to ask himself is, is it responsible to keep recycling that same story when we know what the consequences of that can be?”
She shared her view that the film renewed the public notion that she had one thing to do with the crime. In her viral Twitter thread, Knox famous that the case is still referred to as the “Amanda Knox case” fairly than the “murder of Meredith Kercher by Rudy Guede.”
Guede was convicted of Kercher’s homicide in a separate trial in 2008.
“There’s been this ongoing idea that, ‘Well, as long as we call it fiction, then no one would honestly apply the ideas or feelings or conclusions that I bring with my imagination to the story to the real person,’” she explained. “And that’s simply not true.”
“Especially when you’re looking at people like myself who continue to be brought up with a question mark, you deciding to tell that story in your own way is going to be adding to the ledger of how people understand and define me as a human being,” she continued.
“And then Matt Damon and the director can walk away with a great story in their pocket, but meanwhile, I’m still living with the consequences of people thinking that I am somehow involved in this crime that I am not involved in.”
Last yr, Knox was concerned in a retelling of her story when she served as an government producer on the Hulu restricted collection “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox,” an eight-episode true-crime biographical drama that premiered on Hulu in August 2025.
Fox News Digital’s Tyler McCarthy contributed to this report.
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