By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

After four years of imprisonment followed by just a month of freedom, Amanda Knox's ex-boyfriend can't wait to be reunited with her, Breaking Celebrity News has learned.

Raffaele Sollecito and Knox were both cleared of the murder of Knox's roommate, Meredith Kercher, and now he's ready to see his former girlfriend again to talk about their terrible shared experience.

In an interview out on Wednesday, Sollecito opened up to Italian magazine Oggi and told how he plans to travel to Seattle before Christmas because he wants to "look her in the eyes" and chat about the "hellish whirl" that had "nearly ruined our lives," reported the Telegraph.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, the couple's 2009 murder convictions were overturned on October 3 by an Italian court.

American exchange student Knox, 24, was finally free to return to the U.S. and she left Italy within hours of the verdict and not seen her ex since.

Italian computer studies graduate Sollecito first met Knox at a classical music concert in Perugia, Umbria, in Oct 2007, just a week before Kercher was found dead in her bedroom with her throat slit and multiple knife wounds.

Now the 27-year-old from Bari in the south of Italy is excited to see her again and finally visit Knox's hometown after an open invitation from her