for a horrific crime she didn t commit. her roommate was brute ale murdered in an apartment they shared in perugia. tonight amanda and her boyfriend rafael sollecito are free. she s preparing to fly home to the united states to rebuild her shattered life. for the latest, let s go to matthew chance in perugia. you ve been out there the whole time. you were in court today. dramatic scenes. were you expecting that? you ve been following this very closely for years. reporter: yeah, well, i wasn t quite expecting the level of emotion that i witnessed in the court today. it really was tense. you had both the knox family and the kercher family sitting in the same course. the kerchers very much wanted for amanda knox to stay in prison. they wanted the conviction to be upheld. obviously, the knoxes wanted the opposite. when it went the knoxes way, there were whoops and chants. and powerful tension. amanda was just so overcome with emotion. she could barely walk she was crying so mu
american student amanda knox walked free from an italian prison after serving four years for a horrific crime she didn t commit. her roommate was brute ale murdered in an apartment they shared in perugia. tonight amanda and her boyfriend rafael sollecito are free. she s preparing to fly home to the united states to rebuild her shattered life. for the latest, let s go to matthew chance in perugia. you ve been out there the whole time. you were in court today. dramatic scenes. were you expecting that? you ve been following this very closely for years. reporter: yeah, well, i wasn t quite expecting the level of emotion that i witnessed in the court today. it really was tense. you had both the knox family and the kercher family sitting in the same course. the kerchers very much wanted for amanda knox to stay in prison. they wanted the conviction to be upheld. obviously, the knoxes wanted the opposite. when it went the knoxes way, there were whoops and chants. and powerful tens
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about concealing it. gotham chopra was a personal friend of jackson s. he knew endless doctors and he knew how to manipulate certain systems. he also had many doctors who were always willing to write new prescriptions and they just wanted to be around him and they wanted that aura of his attention. gotham s father, physician deepak chopra, says michael once asked him to write a prescription for a narcotic. i said i wasn t going to write a prescription and when i confronted him, he started to cry. he said, you don t understand. i m in a lot of pain. he says he feared for michael jackson s health so along with a member of michael s family, he arranged for an intervention. he was so upset, angry, burst into a temper, left the room. according to biographer, randy taraborrelli, jackson was first introduced to prescription drugs in 1984. jackson s scalp was severely burned during a filming of this pepsi commercial. i was at the hospital that night, and i remember the doctor
confronted him, he started to cry. he said, you don t understand. i m in a lot of pain. he says he feared for michael jackson s health so along with a member of michael s family, he arranged for an intervention. he was so upset, angry, burst into a temper, left the room. according to biographer, randy taraborrelli, jackson was first introduced to prescription drugs in 1984. jackson s scalp was severely burned during a filming of this pepsi commercial. i was at the hospital that night, and i remember the doctors saying that they were trying to give him pain medication back then and he would not take it, and that ultimately he did take some because the pain was so great, but that it was a big issue. when do you think the drug use started? i believe that a lot of it had to do with the stress of the 1993 allegations.