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Key PointsAmanda Knox has a new stage comedy, Cartwheel, which debuts Friday in Scotland. Knox was wrongfully convicted of murdering Meredith Kercher and served nearly four years in prison. A friend of Kercher's sister has started a petition to stop the show. Amanda Knox is defending her new stage show against backlash from critics, including those who signed a petition against it and the sister of Meredith Kercher, the roommate Knox was wrongly convicted of murdering in Perugia, Italy, in 2007. Knox served nearly four years in an Italian prison before her conviction was overturned, and she was exonerated. Her new show, Cartwheel, which debuts Friday at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, deals with motherhood and Knox explaining what happened to her own daughter. The title is a reference to reports that Knox did cartwheels at the police station after she was questioned in Kercher's death. "Cartwheel is a show about motherhood, raising a daughter in a world that is unfair and dangerous for women, and what it costs to be the kind of mother who tells her the truth about that," Knox said Thursday in a statement.