Menendez brothers’ family slam current, Ryan Murphy

The Menéndez family is speaking out in opposition to Ryan Murphy and Netflix.

Tammi Menendez, partner of Erik Menéndez, has shared a statement on social media attributed to “simply concerning the full extended family” of Erik and Lyle Menéndez slamming Murphy’s Netflix sequence “Monsters.”

The group of relations, which the assertion talked about consists of 24 of us, criticized the current as a “phobic, gross, anachronistic, serial episodic nightmare that is not solely riddled with mistruths and outright falsehoods nevertheless ignores the newest exculpatory revelations.”

USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Netflix and Murphy for comment.

“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story” services throughout the Menéndez brothers, who had been convicted of killing their dad and mother in 1996. The brothers argued they acted in self-defense following years of abuse by their father, José Menéndez.

In a earlier assertion, Erik Menéndez blasted the Netflix current for its “caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies” and its “dishonest portrayal” of their story.

The extended family talked about of their very personal assertion that they have been “victimized” by the “grotesque shockadrama” and that Murphy “certainly not spoke to us” sooner than making the current.

Erik Menendez slams Ryan Murphy, Netflix for ‘dishonest portrayal’ of his mum or dad’s murders

“The character assassination of Erik and Lyle, who’re our nephews and cousins, beneath the guise of a ‘story telling narrative’ is repulsive,” they talked about.

“Everyone knows these males. We grew up with them since that they had been boys. We love them and to this very day we’re close to them. We moreover know what went on of their dwelling and the unimaginably turbulent lives they’ve endured. A lot of of us had been eyewitnesses to many atrocities one must certainly not have to bear witness to.

“It is sad that Ryan Murphy, Netflix, and all others involved on this sequence, don’t want an understanding of the impression of years of bodily, emotional, and sexual abuse. Perhaps, in the end, ‘Monsters’ is all about Ryan Murphy.”

‘Monsters’ star Nicholas Alexander Chave responds after Erik Menendez slams Netflix sequence

Considered one of many sequence’ most controversial components is its suggestion that Erik and Lyle Menéndez might need been in an incestuous relationship. They kiss on the lips in a single episode, whereas in a single different, their mom walks in on them showering collectively. The latter scene is obtainable as an idea of journalist Dominick Dunne, carried out by Nathan Lane, who hypothesizes the brothers would possibly want killed their dad and mother to cowl up their relationship.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Murphy defended the current by saying his intent was to include a lot of views on what occurred.

“What the current is doing is presenting the components of view and theories from so many people who had been involved throughout the case,” Murphy talked about. “Dominick Dunne wrote a lot of articles talking about that idea. We’re presenting his viewpoint, merely as we present (Menéndez lawyer) Leslie Abramson’s viewpoint. We had an obligation to point all of that, and we did.”

Of their assertion, the family described Dunne, who died in 2009, as a “pro-prosecution hack.”

Murphy moreover instructed ET it’s “fascinating” that Erik Menéndez issued an announcement “with out having seen the current,” together with, “I’d say 60-65% of our current, throughout the scripts and throughout the film sort, center throughout the abuse and what they declare occurred to them, and we do it very fastidiously and we give them their day in courtroom.”

Nicholas Alexander Chavez, who carried out Lyle Menéndez, moreover responded to Erik Menéndez’s earlier assertion by telling USA TODAY he has “sympathy and empathy” for him “in that I can solely take into consideration how troublesome it is to have basically probably the most traumatic second of your life put up there on the show for everyone to see.”