Amanda Knox interview: ‘I will never go willingly back’

WATCH: Amanda Knox vows to fight murder conviction – Credit: ABC News/Good Morning America

NEW YORK – Amanda Knox says she’ll never willingly go back to Italy to face a 28 1/2-year prison sentence for a murder conviction that was upheld by an Italian court.

She made the comments on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” on Friday, a day after her guilty verdict was reinstated.

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Speaking to Robin Roberts, the 26-year-old University of Washington student said she would “fight this to the very end.” She said the court’s decision was unfair, considering she previously had been cleared.

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WATCH: Full interview with Amanda Knox on ‘Good Morning America’ after conviction reinstated

Italy’s supreme court reinstated the guilty verdict first handed down against her and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in 2009 in the slaying of a British roommate, Meredith Kercher.

The verdict was overturned in 2011, but the court vacated that decision and sent the case back for a third trial in Florence.