Originally appeared on E! Online

Amanda Knox isn't shying away from telling her kids the truth.

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The 38-year-old — who was convicted of murder and spent years in jail over the 2007 killing of her study abroad roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy before ultimately being acquitted of the charges — revealed what she told her and husband Christopher Robinson 's 4-year-old daughter Eureka when she started asking about her wrongful conviction about a year ago.

"It's very simple," Knox told Today in an interview published Aug. 18. "It's just, when Mommy was young, Mommy went to Italy, and she made friends and she had fun, but then someone hurt her friend, and the police thought Mommy hurt her friend, and so they put Mommy in jail."

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