Amanda Knox revives Matt Damon feud over his cancel culture comments

Amanda Knox has revived her rivalry with Matt Damon after the actor and “The Rip” co-star Ben Affleck weighed in on cancel culture.

During a recent interview “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Damon, 55, and Affleck, 53, shared their thoughts on how cancel culture can be taken to extremes. At one point in their discussion, Damon suggested that for some public figures, the constant ostracism and scrutiny of canceling is worse than a prison sentence.

“I bet some of these people want to go to prison for like 18 months and then come out and say, ‘No, but I paid my dues. It’s like we’re done. Like, can we do this?’ “They would prefer to say.” said Damon. “Like, it never ends with being publicly berated like that. And that’s the first thing… you know, it’ll follow you to your grave.”

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After the podcast episode aired on Jan. 16, Knox, 38, who previously criticized Damon for starring in a 2021 movie inspired by the real-life wrongful conviction and imprisonment, once again announced the Oscar winner on social media.

“Another thing Matt Damon could run by me before he goes out into the world,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter, alongside a Variety article about Damon’s cancel culture comments.

Knox spent four years in prison after she and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were twice convicted and later acquitted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy, in 2007. The two were released from prison in October 2011.

After sharing her post, Knox responded to several X users who commented on the thread.

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“Yeah, literally going to jail…not so good,” journalist Katherine Brodsky wrote. “But frankly, given that some of these ‘cancelled’ people have taken their own lives, yes, maybe they would have preferred to stay in prison for 18 months and be done with it; instead there is no end to this. There is no going back. There is no being ‘square’.”

“People commit suicide in prison, too,” Knox responded.

“Amanda is unfamiliar with the word ‘some’!” another social media user commented.

Damon and Ben Affleck talked about cancel culture on a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” (Getty Images)

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“You’re missing the point,” Knox replied. “You can’t sneak into prison. That comes with its own stigma and lasting trauma. You can’t just be ‘done with it’ personally or socially.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to Damon’s representative for comment.

After his release from prison, Knox returned to the United States and became an outspoken advocate for criminal justice reform, focusing on the wrongfully convicted and media ethics.

He has written two memoirs about his experiences, including 2013’s “Waiting to Be Heard” and 2025’s “Free: My Search for Meaning,” and he also hosts the “Hard Knox” podcast.

Knox spent four years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murdering his roommate in Italy. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

After Damon’s “Stillwater” was released in July 2021, Knox condemned the film in a viral thread on X. In “Stillwater,” directed by Tom McCarthy, Damon plays a father whose daughter is convicted of murdering her roommate and is imprisoned in France. The film follows Damon’s character who travels from Oklahoma to France to prove his daughter’s innocence.

McCarthy previously confirmed that the film was inspired by Knox’s real-life case. Knox harshly criticized the producers for linking his name to Kercher’s murder after Kercher was exonerated, and also objected to the film’s plot, which deviated from the actual events of the story and cast doubt on the innocence of the character based on it.

During an interview in August 2021 DiversityKnox explained why she felt it was necessary to go after Damon and McCarthy about how they handled her story in “Stillwater.”

Knox had previously criticized Damon for starring in the 2021 movie “Stillwater.” (Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images)

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“Misconceptions don’t just happen to the individual. They happen to all human beings who love this person, who know they are innocent, and who fight for their innocence,” he explained.

Knox noted that the film’s decision to make the character it inspired by somehow guilty of murder meant that the lines between reality and fiction were not responsibly blurred, making it difficult not to feel like Damon and McCarthy were opening the wounds he had worked so hard to leave behind.

“I don’t think the filmmakers can honestly say they’ve moved far enough away from my situation that it can’t be recognized as my situation,” he said. “And I think that’s evident in all of the coverage where everyone is like, ‘Oh, this is definitely the Amanda Knox case.’ And viewers can then draw conclusions about me, regardless of whether those conclusions are true or not.”

He added: “The question Tom McCarthy really needs to ask himself is: Is it responsible to keep rehashing the same story when we know what the consequences might be?”

Knox was released from prison in October 2011. (VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images)

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He shared his view that the film renewed the public perception that he had something to do with crime. In the viral Twitter post, Knox noted that the case was still referred to as the “Amanda Knox case” instead of “the murder of Meredith Kercher by Rudy Guede.”

Guede was sentenced A lawsuit was filed for Kercher’s murder in a separate hearing in 2008.

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“There was an ongoing idea that, ‘As long as we call it fiction, then no one will ever honestly apply the ideas, emotions, or conclusions I bring to the story in my imagination to the real person,'” he explained. “And that’s simply not true.”

He became an outspoken advocate for criminal justice reform. (Lucien Knuteson)

“Especially when you look at people like me who continue to be raised with a question mark, deciding to tell this story in your own way will add to the ledger of how people understand and define me as a person,” he continued.

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“And then Matt Damon and the director can walk away with a great story in their pocket, but in the meantime I’m still living with the consequences of people thinking I was somehow involved in this crime that I wasn’t involved in.”

Last year, Knox was involved in a retelling of her story when she served as an executive producer on the Hulu miniseries “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox,” an eight-episode true crime biographical drama that premieres on Hulu in August 2025.

Fox News Digital’s Tyler McCarthy contributed to this report.