Erik Menendez is talking out in opposition to Ryan Murphy's series about him and his brother Lyle Menendez, who’re serving lifestyles sentences for murdering their oldsters in 1989.

Erik's shared his solutions about Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Tale in a message his spouse Tammi Menendez shared on X, beforehand Twitter, Sept. 19, the day the present premiered on Netflix.

“I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, establishing a comic strip of Lyle rooted in detrimental and blatant lies rampant in the present,” Erik said. “I’m able to handiest imagine they were completed so on cause. It is with a heavy heart that I screech, I imagine Ryan Murphy can no longer be this naive and mistaken about the info of our lives in mumble to conclude this with out execrable intent.”

E! Files has reached out to Murphy and Netflix for observation on the fifty three-One year-primitive's remarks and has no longer heard attend.

In Monsters, the 2nd season of an crime drama anthology series that Murphy co-created with Ian Brennan, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch play Lyle and Erik, respectively, whereas Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny painting the brothers' oldsters, José Menendez and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez.

In 1996, following two trials, Erik and Lyle, 56, were convicted of first-degree execute and conspiracy to execute for the 1989 shotgun killings of their father and mother of their Beverly Hills house. The brothers were sentenced to lifestyles in penal advanced with out the possibility of parole.

Prosecutors had said Erik and Lyle's motivation for the murders stemmed from their desire to inherit the family fortune. The siblings had alleged their oldsters had bodily, emotionally and sexually abused them for years and their authorized personnel argued they killed their mother and father in self-protection.

“It is downhearted for me to know that Netflix's dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime possess taken the painful truths a total lot of steps backward,” Erik said in his assertion, “attend though time to an era when the prosecution constructed a myth on a perception gadget that males weren’t sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma otherwise than females.”

He persevered, “Those awful lies possess been disrupted and uncovered by limitless mettlesome victims over the final twenty years who possess broken thru their non-public shame and bravely spoken out. So now Murphy shapes his detrimental myth thru vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.”

Erik added that “violence will not be any longer an answer, never a acknowledge, and is in any appreciate times tragic.”

“As such,” he persevered, “I’m hoping it’s not any longer forgotten that violence in opposition to a bit one creates a hundred horrendous and quiet crime scenes darkly shadowed on the attend of glitter and glamor and usually uncovered till tragedy penetrates everyone fervent.”