Amanda Knox Was Suffering From Depression Before Release, Reveals Friend
Oct. 4 2011, Published 7:30 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
As joyful Amanda Knox heads home to Seattle from Italy, her friends reveal the trauma that she endured over recent weeks while awaiting the verdict of her appeal against a 2009 murder conviction.
The 24-year-old is due to land in her home city around 5 p.m. local time and there are countless anxious friends and family waiting for her, many of which have been increasingly worried about her emotional well-being during the closing stages of the trial.
"Amanda was nervous for the last 10 days and she couldn't eat or sleep," Knox's high school drama teacher John Lange told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.
"None of us knew which way the appeal was going to go," he said, adding that her father, Curt Knox, had recently revealed the depth of his daughter's stress.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, earlier on Tuesday Amanda switched planes at London’s Heathrow Airport after leaving Rome to make her long journey home after spending four years in an Italian prison.
After ten hours of deliberations, the appeals jury on Monday reversed Amanda's conviction for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher; the court also threw out the conviction of Knox’s former boyfriend Raffaele