Putting the Truth Into True Crime

Sharon Horgan tells Us about taking another look at The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

- By YANA GREBENYUK

Horgan has been Emmy-nominated for Bad Sisters and Catastrophe; inset: as Twisted Tale's Edda.

When Sharon Horgan took on the role of Amanda Knox's mother, Edda Mellas, for a new eight-part dramatization, she had to unpack her own history with the infamous case. “I’ve got quite a strange relationship with the past me and how I viewed it,” the actress, 55, admits. “I remember it being so salacious, but I read [about] it voraciously. It’s kind of horrible now when I think about it because that’s exactly what the media wanted: to build this sort of bias toward this young girl and to sexualize it and hype people up.”