The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story’ Draws Response From Erik Menendez

Netflix is making an attempt to capitalize on the success of its third most-watched present ever, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer story, by having creator Ryan Murphy do a complete sequence about well-known killers. Now, that’s led to the discharge of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, which has shot to the highest of Netflix’s Prime 10 listing immediately, and is more likely to keep there.

The present follows the story of the 2 brothers who murdered their mother and father, had been discovered responsible and sentenced to life in jail. And as normally occurs, the topics aren’t very amused about their portrayal there.

The present has drawn a response from Erik Menendez himself, at present serving his life sentence, now age 53. Right here’s what he mentioned in a newly launched assertion:

“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. I can solely consider they had been performed so on function. 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 details of our lives in order to do that with out dangerous 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 by means of 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. These terrible lies have been disputed and uncovered by numerous courageous victims during the last 20 years who’ve damaged by means of their private disgrace and bravely spoken out. So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative by means of vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.”

“Is the reality not sufficient? 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 isn’t 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 infrequently uncovered till tragedy penetrates everybody concerned. To all those that have reached out and supported me, thanks from the underside of my coronary heart.”

It is not made particular what scenes Erik could also be pushing again towards within the present. There may be concentrate on the abuse Erik and Lyle confronted from their father, together with a one-shot episode that’s a whole dialog about Erik describing, in extraordinarily graphic element, the character of his abuse. The boys aren’t precisely portrayed as heroic, however the abuse they suffered is a major a part of the story. Although it’s no shock that they may not like their depiction in a present like this, given the context. We’ll see if Lyle feedback, or if this attracts a response from Murphy or Netflix. Final time round, Murphy needed to deal with ire from the households of Dahmer’s victims. Now it’s a killer himself.

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