Amanda Knox, 34, has spoken out to accuse Matt Damon and director Tom McCarthy of damaging her reputation and "ripping off" her story in the new movie Stillwater.

Knox, who was convicted and subsequently acquitted of murdering 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 – who was her housemate – has taken aim at the upcoming film in an essay written on Medium.

The director of Stillwater, McCarthy, has been open about the controversial case being the inspiration behind the film.

In 2008, Rudy Guede was imprisoned for 16 years for the murder in Perugia, Italy.

In the essay, Knox – now a best-selling author – said that the character in the film played by Abigail Breslin is made to look guilty when she asks the killer to "get rid" of the victim with whom she has a relationship.

She writes: "How do you think that impacts my ­reputation?

"I continue to be accused of 'knowing something I'm not revealing', of 'having been involved somehow, even if I didn’t plunge the knife'. Tom McCarthy’s fictionalised version of me is just the tabloid ­­conspiracy guiltier version of me.

"By fictionalising away my innocence, my total lack of involvement, by erasing the role of the authorities in my wrongful conviction, McCarthy reinforces an image of me as a guilty and untrustworthy person," she continues.

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The American, who was studying abroad in Italy at the time of the murder, said the movie made her look like a “media whore”.

She also accepted that McCarthy, who won the best film Oscar for Spotlight, was under no ­obligation to consult her – but that her and her family would have had lots to tell him if he had tried to.

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Since the film debuted at Cannes Film Festival this month it has earned mixed reviews.

Knox also asked whether she owned her name, face, and story so long as people were making money from them.

She wrote: "Does my name belong to me? My face? What about my life? My story? Why does my name refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions because others continue to profit off my name, face, & story without my consent."

Knox finished by inviting Damon and McCarthy onto her podcast Labyrinths for a conversation about "identity" and "public perception".

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