She has a very manipulative personality(in my opinion). She wants to portray herself as being naive. I think the reason for her need for attention is because she had a hard life growing up (I think all three of them did).From most accounts she only had a problem in her relationships with women, because she was very competitive.
I just think everything has to be portrayed as bad luck or coincidence with her. She does not take responsibility for any action. How is it that one person has this much bad luck (Ear bleeding,taking a shower in a bathroom with blood and a bloody footprint on the bathmat, decided not to flush the toilet, cell phones shut off, call to her mother, wierd behavior, telling police that Meredith always locked her door, history of pranking, a "hickey" under her chin that many said was not a hickey, harassment by police leading to a false accusation against her boss who incidentally wanted to fire her, lamp being in the bedroom, her footprint in Filomena's room and in the hallway, telling her mom she was worried about the knife they found, footprint found on the pillow that was compatible with her shoe size, she had no idea what she did the night of the murder etc etc etc, there's just so much )????
Her stars must have aligned in a really strange way the night her friend Meredith the true victim was murdered.
Yes to all of that, ITA. Even little things. For example, in her book she states that the reason that she lied to investigators and told them they, the roomates, didn't smoke pot in the house is because Laura told her not to. Now, I do not know if Laura actually ever told her that or not. And further, I don't know if just denied that she smoked pot, or if she denied it for her roomates as well. We only get one side of the story. She made a big deal of it in her book to account for why she lied to the police about it. And her answer was basically - Laura made me do it.
What I get from that is that first, she did not want her readers to question her character about lying to the police. For example, so you lied to the police about that, what else did you lie to them about? She wanted to make herself out to be completely honest throughout. She wanted to explain this potentially negative thing for her character away. And she didn't do it by taking responsibility and just saying, I made a mistake and I lied to them about us smoking pot in the house. She said, I lied to them because Laura told me to lie about it.
Now, who do we believe?
After IMO all the lies Amanda has told, I chalk this up to a lie also, to put the blame on someone else for what was actually her own decision and her own choice (to lie).
JMO.