Erik Menendez is slamming the “dishonest portrayal” of his life in Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erick Menendez Story.”
Menendez was convicted together with his older brother, Lyle, of the deadly 1989 shootings of their dad and mom Kitty and Jose Menendez. The 2 brothers, who’re serving life sentences for the murders, argued that they acted in self-defense after enduring a lifetime of abuse by their father. In a press release shared on social media by his spouse, Erik Menendez known as the sequence, which was co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, “ruinous.”
“I believed we had moved past the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, making a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant within the present,” Menendez wrote. “It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I say, I imagine Ryan Murphy can’t be this naive and inaccurate in regards to the information of our lives in order to do that with out dangerous intent.”
The nine-episode sequence revisits the crime from varied views, together with hypothesis in regards to the brothers’ relationship and the argument by prosecutors that the murders had been motivated by cash.
“It’s unhappy for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths a number of steps backward — again by time to an period when the prosecution constructed a story on a perception system that males weren’t sexually abused, and that males skilled rape trauma in another way than ladies,” Mendendez wrote. “Is the reality not sufficient? Let the reality stand as the reality. How demoralizing is it to know that one man with energy can undermine a long time of progress in shedding mild on childhood trauma.”
Murphy and Brennan haven’t publicly commented on Menendez’s publish.
“[The show] is basically extra focused on speaking about how monsters are made versus born,” Murphy stated throughout a panel at an early screening of the present’s first episode, in keeping with Netflix. “We attempt to not have an excessive amount of judgment about that as a result of we’re making an attempt to grasp why they did one thing, versus the act of doing one thing.”
“In the end the reality of what occurred isn’t knowable by anyone else, aside from two people who find themselves sitting in jail proper now,” Brennan added.
“Monsters” second season launched final week and follows “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” Erik Menendez, now 53, and Lyle Menendez, 56, are serving their sentences on the identical correctional facility close to San Diego, California. Their attorneys argued in a petition final 12 months that new proof within the case ought to overturn their convictions.
“Violence isn’t a solution, by no means an answer, and is all the time tragic,” Menendez wrote. “As such, I hope it’s by no means forgotten that violence in opposition to a toddler creates 100 horrendous and silent crime scenes darkly shadowed behind glitter and glamor and barely uncovered till tragedy penetrates everybody concerned.”