United Kingdom, March 27 -- Amanda Knox is turning to comedy to "find the ability to laugh at the bad things that have happened".

The 38-year-old author's gigs feature jokes about when she was in an Italian jail after being wrongfully convicted for the murder and sexual assault of her 21-year-old roommate, Meredith Kercher.

Amanda and her then-boyfriend, Raffalle Sollecito, and Rudy Guede were also convicted after prosecutors alleged at the time that University of Leeds exchange student Meredith died in a "sex game gone wrong" at their home in Perugia, Italy, in November 2007.

Amanda and Raffalle's convictions were overturned and they were released in 2011 whereupon she returned to the United States before the Italian Supreme Court of ...