Erik Menendez Calls ‘Monsters’ Full Of ‘Blatant Lies’ About His Mother and father’ Murders – The Boston Courier

Convicted assassin Erik Menéndez has criticized the brand new Netflix present “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” claiming that the true crime-inspired collection is “rooted in horrible and blatant lies” concerning the occasions main as much as the 1989 murders of his dad and mom.

In an announcement posted on his spouse Tammi Menéndez’s account on X final week, Menéndez referred to as the collection a “dishonest portrayal” of his and his brother Lyle Menéndez’s lives. He accused the present’s co-creator, tv producer Ryan Murphy, of crafting “Monsters” with “bad intent.”

Erik and Lyle Menéndez are each serving life sentences for murdering their dad and mom, Jose and Kitty Menéndez, and allege they killed the couple in self-defense following years of bodily, sexual and emotional abuse.

Members of the family have corroborated the brothers making abuse accusations earlier than the murders. Prosecutors, in the meantime, argued that the brothers killed their dad and mom for monetary achieve.

“I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show,” Menéndez wrote in his assertion. “I can only believe they were done so on purpose.”

“It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent.”

Menéndez characterised “Monsters” as “disheartening slander” and slammed Murphy for misrepresenting how trauma and sexual abuse have an effect on male victims.

“It is sad for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths several steps backward― back through time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma differently than women,” he wrote.

Menéndez completed by thanking “all those who have reached out and supported me.”

The collection is the second installment in Murphy’s already controversial true crime anthology “Monster.”

The primary centered on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Households of Dahmer’s victims criticized the collection for “glamorizing” Dahmer’s crimes and capitalizing on their private tragedy.

Learn Menendez’s full assertion right here.