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Ryan Murphy has responded to Erik Menendez’s accusation that his Netflix collection Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is“dishonest”.
The Menendez brothers had been convicted of the 1989 murders of their dad and mom, José and Kitty. They had been arrested for first-degree homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide exterior their dwelling in March 1990 and sentenced to life in jail in 1996. In 2024, new proof emerged that has the potential to set them free.
Erik Menendez, who’s serving a life sentence on the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility in California alongside Lyle, has claimed Murphy’s collection, starring Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch, doesn’t precisely painting their crime, and accused the creator of releasing “disheartening slander”.
Talking to Entertainment Tonight, Murphy defended the Netflix collection, saying: “I feel it’s fascinating that he’s issued an announcement with out having seen the present. I do know he hasn’t seen the present in jail. I hope he does see the present.”
Monsters consists of the harrowing sexual abuse that Lyle and Erik alleged to have been perpetrated by their father José (Javier Bardem) however Erik Menendez has accused Murphy of distorting the reality.
Murphy responded: “Pay attention, I feel it’s actually, actually exhausting if it’s your life to see your life up on display. I feel it’s been 30 years since that case – that’s exhausting.”
He added that “should you watch the present, I might say 60 to 65 per cent” of the scripted narrative centres “across the abuse and what they declare occurred to them. And we do it very fastidiously and we give them their day in courtroom and so they speak overtly about it.”
“We current the information from their viewpoint,” the Dahmer director mentioned. “We spent three years researching it – all of that’s true.”
In his assertion, shared to X/Twitter, Menendez mentioned: “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. I can solely imagine they had been executed so on goal.
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“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I say, I imagine Ryan Murphy can’t be this naive and inaccurate in regards to the information of our lives in order to do that with out dangerous intent.
“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 means 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 another way than ladies.
“These terrible lies have been disputed and uncovered by numerous courageous victims over the past 20 years who’ve damaged by means of their private disgrace and bravely spoken out. So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative by means of vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.
He continued: “Is the reality not sufficient? Let the reality stand as the reality. How demoralizing to know that one man with energy can undermine a long time of progress in shedding mild on childhood trauma. Violence is rarely a solution, by no means an answer, and is all the time tragic.
“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. To all those that have reached out and supported me, thanks from the underside of my coronary heart.”
