Amanda Knox says documentary is about a wrongfully convicted person

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Amanda Knox wants to be heard.

The Washington woman who was accused of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher while they were living in Italy, said she's ready to speak out now and she's doing it her Netflix documentary "Amanda Knox" in order to "explain what it feels like to be wrongfully convicted."

Knox, now 29, stopped by "Good Morning America" on Thursday to chat about her Netflix debut on September 30.

"What I'm trying to convey is a regular person like me, just a kid who was studying abroad who loves languages, could be caught up in this nightmare where they're portrayed as something they're not," Knox, 29, said today on "Good Morning America." "I think I'm trying to explain what it feels like to be wrongfully convicted, to either be this terrible monster or to be just a regular person who is vulnerable."

The documentary has taken a largely neutral approach with the team presenting two sides to Amanda Knox in their promotional trailer. In one she says, "If I am guilty, it means I am the ultimate figure to fear... because I'm not the obvious one." In another she says, "Either I am a wolf in sheep's clothing, or I am you."

In the documentary they'll look into the murder of Knox's then-roommate, British student Meredith Kercher. Kercher was brutally murdered and attacked in their apartment in Perugia, Italy in 2007. Knox was initially convicted by an Italian court of killing Kercher, but that decision was overturned on appeal in October 2011 after she had already spent four years in prison. Knox came back to the U.S. but was convicted again in 2014 and sentenced to prison. In March 2015, Italy's highest court overturned that decision. Knox is currently living in the United States near her parent's home in Seattle.

She says she hopes the documentary will shed a light on what it's really been like to be wrongfully convicted.

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"A lot of times their stories go overlooked and I think that it's our moral duty to examine the cases of a wrongfully convicted person from the perspective of their humanity," Knox said. "To really demand that we have objective looks at their cases and the facts of their case as well as them as people as opposed to demonizing in the way that I was."

Knox also commented that when the case became about her, and showing that she was guilty, the real victim, Kercher, was completely lost. She said that while she knows that Kercher's family will have a hard time with the documentary.

"That's the really sad part about this tragedy is that as soon as the prosecutor made it about Amanda, it has to be Amanda, they took away the fact that this case is about her and what the truth was about what happened to her," Knox said. "She's been lost in all of that but that doesn't change the fact that we have also an obligation to everyone that could potentially be innocent to find out the truth for the sake of the victim and the sake of them as well."

For more on the documentary, tune in on Netflix on September 30 or pick up a copy of Knox's memoir, "Waiting to Be Heard."

PHOTOS: A look back at Knox's trial

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