Erik Menendez is slamming the “dishonest portrayal” of his life in Netflix‘s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
Menendez was convicted along with his older brother, Lyle, of the deadly 1989 shootings of their mother and father Kitty and Jose Menendez.
The 2 brothers, who’re serving life sentences for the murders, argued that they acted in self-defence after enduring a lifetime of abuse by their father.
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In an announcement shared on social media by his spouse, Erik Menendez referred to 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 consider Ryan Murphy can’t be this naïve and inaccurate concerning the info of our lives in order to do that with out unhealthy intent.”
The nine-episode sequence revisits the crime from numerous views, together with hypothesis concerning 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 way 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 a different way than ladies,” Mendendez wrote.
“Is the reality not sufficient? Let the reality stand as the reality. How demoralising is it to know that one man with energy can undermine a long time of progress in shedding mild on childhood trauma.”
Previous to the present’s premiere, Murphy and Brennan spoke about their method to the mission at a screening in New York.
“(The present) is admittedly extra interested by speaking about how monsters are made versus born,” Murphy mentioned throughout a panel at an early screening of the present’s first episode, in line with Netflix.
“We attempt to not have an excessive amount of judgment about that as a result of we’re attempting to know why they did one thing, versus the act of doing one thing.”
“Finally the reality of what occurred isn’t knowable by anyone else, apart from two people who find themselves sitting in jail proper now,” Brennan added.
On Monday (Tuesday AEST), Murphy was requested about Menendez’s criticism in an interview with Leisure Tonight.
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“I believe it is attention-grabbing that he is issued an announcement with out having seen the present,” Murphy mentioned partially.
“For those who watch the present, I’d say 60 to 65 % of our present within the scripts and within the movie type centre across the abuse and what they declare occurred to them. And we do it very rigorously and we give them their day in court docket and so they speak brazenly about it.”
Monsters second season launched final week and follows Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
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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 yr that new proof within the case ought to overturn their convictions.
“Violence is rarely 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 towards a baby creates 100 horrendous and silent crime scenes darkly shadowed behind glitter and glamour and barely uncovered till tragedy penetrates everybody concerned.”
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