Erik Menendez slams Netflix’s “Monsters” over ‘dishonest portrayal’

Erik Menendez is slamming Netflix and a Hollywood producer for a model new sequence based off of his life.

Menendez, one-half of the Menendez brothers who've been convicted of killing their dad and mother at their Beverly Hills, California dwelling in 1989 alongside brother Lyle Menendez, spoke out regarding the sequence. In a press launch shared by his partner, Tammie Menendez known as out "a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies" on social media Thursday night.

“I can solely think about they've been carried out so on perform," he said in the statement. "It is with a heavy coronary coronary heart that I say, I think about Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate regarding the information of our lives in an effort to try this with out unhealthy intent."

He continued: "It is sad for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths quite a lot of steps backward — once more through time to an interval when the prosecution constructed a narrative on a notion system that males weren't sexually abused, and that males expert rape trauma differently than ladies."

Menendez added in his assertion that “these horrible lies have been disrupted and uncovered by quite a few brave victims over the past 20 years who've broken through their non-public shame and bravely spoken out" and "mow Murphy shapes his horrible narrative through vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander." He later requested "is the fact not enough?" and thanked people for his or her assist.

The brothers' trial captured the attention of the U.S. on the time. The brothers, who argued that the killing of José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, was a outcomes of years-long abuse, have been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in jail.

The second installment of Netflix's "Monster" true-crime anthology sequence was launched on Thursday and follows the success of ultimate yr's equally controversial "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story," which ignited backlash from just a few of Dahmer's victims' households.

Launch date, strong, the place to look at: 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story'

What occurred inside the Menendez family murders?

The Menendez brothers' murders sparked controversy and curiosity regarding the nature of their crimes.

August marks three a few years, 35 years to be exact, given that killings. The brothers have been convicted of taking the lives of their affluent dad and mother with shotguns on the family's Beverly Hills mansion. Lyle Menendez, then 21, and his brother Erik Menendez, then 18, fired at Jose and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez quite a lot of situations, along with at point-blank range to the head.

On the time, Lyle and Erik claimed their father, a former govt at RCA Information, abused them bodily, sexually, and emotionally all through their childhood. In "Monsters", Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch portray Lyle and Erik Menendez, respectively.

Oscar-winner Javier Bardem performs José Menendez inside the Murphy sequence, whereas Oscar nominee Chloë Sevigny stars as Kitty.