Erik Menendez just isn’t very pleased with Ryan Murphy‘s newest true-crime anthology sequence, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
The Netflix present chronicles the case of real-life brothers, Lyle and Erik Menendez, who had been convicted in 1996 for the murders of their dad and mom, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez.
Erik shared in a press release, which his spouse Tammi Menendez posted on social media Thursday night time, “I believed we had moved past the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, making a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant likes rampant within the present. I can solely consider they had been accomplished so on goal. It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I say, I consider Ryan Murphy can’t be this naive and inaccurate in regards to the information of our lives in order to do that with out unhealthy intent.”
“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 via 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 otherwise than girls,” the assertion continued. “These terrible lies have been disrupted and uncovered by numerous courageous victims over the past twenty years who’ve damaged via their private disgrace and bravely spoken out. So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative via vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.”
“Is the reality not sufficient? Erik added.
The Menendez case and trial turned a media sensation within the early Nineties. Throughout their unique 1993 trial, the brothers claimed they shot their dad and mom after struggling years of sexual abuse by the hands of their father and with the information of their mom. Following Erik and Lyle’s conviction for premeditated homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide, each boys got consecutive life sentences with out the potential for parole.
Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch painting Lyle and Erik Menendez, respectively, within the sequence, along with Javier Bardem as José, Chloë Sevigny as Kitty, Nathan Lane as Dominick Dunne and Ari Graynor as Leslie Abramson. “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story dives into the historic case that took the world by storm, paved the way in which for audiences’ modern-day fascination with true crime, and in return asks these audiences: Who’re the true monsters?” the present’s logline reads.
Erik concluded in his assertion, “Let the reality stand as the reality. How demoralizing to know that one man with energy can undermine many years of progress in shedding gentle on childhood trauma. Violence is rarely a solution, by no means an answer, and is at all times tragic. As such, I hope it’s by no means forgotten that violence towards a baby creates 100 horrendous and silent crime scenes darkly shadowed behind glitter and glamor and barely uncovered till tragedy penetrates everybody concerned. To all those that have reached out and supported me. Thanks from the underside of my coronary heart.”