Knox tells TV: I’m no she-devil

Miss Knox, who once more faces claims that she was involved in the killing in Perugia, said she wants the truth to come out and for her to be “reconsidered as a person”.

“What happened to me was surreal but it could have happened to anyone,” she said.

Asked about what it was like to be called a “she-devil with an angel face” and “sphinx of Perugia” after being accused of Miss Kercher’s murder, Miss Knox told ABC’s Diane Sawyer: “They’re wrong.

“I was in the courtroom when they were calling me a devil. I mean it’s one thing to be called certain things in the media and then it’s another thing to be sitting in a courtroom fighting for your life when people are calling you a devil.”

Miss Knox added: “I want the truth to come out. I’d like to be reconsidered as a person.”

The full interview was due to be broadcast last night, following the publication of Miss Knox’s book Waiting To Be Heard. US media has reported she was paid $4m for her book.

Italy’s highest criminal court overturned Miss Knox’s acquittal for the murder of Miss Kercher, originally from Coulsdon, Surrey.

Miss Knox returned to her home in Seattle after she was dramatically cleared in 2011 following four years in jail. She faces the prospect of an extradition request.

Miss Kercher, 21, was found with her throat slashed in her bedroom at the house she shared with American Miss Knox in November 2007.

Prosecutors claimed she was the victim of a drug-fuelled sex game gone awry involving Miss Knox, her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 29 and Rudy Guede, a small-time drug dealer from the Ivory Coast, who is serving a 16-year sentence for sexually assaulting and killing the British student.