family Eric and Lyle Menendez issued a statement on Thursday criticizing Netflix Monsters series about the brothers, as well as show creator Ryan Murphy, who claims that the series is full of “lies and outright lies”, and that family members were never contacted by production.
The statement, penned by the brothers' aunt, Joan Vander Meulen, on behalf of the 24 family members, said the family continues to support Eric and Lyle despite the murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty, in 1989.
“We pray individually and collectively for their release after spending 35 years in prison. We know them, we love them, and we want them to return to their homeland with us.”
the next MonstersUpon arriving at Netflix, Eric issued a statement (through his wife Tammy) saying the show presented a “dishonest portrait of the tragedies surrounding our crime.” More controversially, the series posits that the brothers had an incestuous relationship — a theory pushed by the late author Dominic Dunne in his true crime book about the murders — as well as the alleged sexual abuse the brothers faced from their parents.
The family called Monsters “An accidental, gross, outdated, serialized nightmare that is not only full of lies and outright falsehoods but ignores the latest exculpatory revelations. Our family has fallen victim to this hideous, shocking drama. Murphy claims to have spent years researching the case, but relied on The end is on Dominic Dunne, the hacker who supports the claim, to justify his slander on us and never spoke to us.
“The character assassination of Eric and Lyle, our nephews and cousins, under the guise of 'telling the story' is disgusting. We know these men,” the family continued. “We also know what happened in their home and the unimaginably turbulent lives they led.” . Many of us have been eyewitnesses to many atrocities that one should never bear witness to.
After the statements criticizing the series, Murphy defended himself MonstersSaying: “Our view, and what we wanted to do, is to present to you all the facts, and in the end do you do two things: make up your mind about who is innocent, who is guilty, and who is the monster; And also having a conversation about something that is never talked about in our culture, which is male sexual assault. Murphy also stated about Eric Menendez's complaints, saying, “I know he didn't watch the show.”
The family's statement on Thursday concluded, “It is sad that Ryan Murphy, Netflix, and everyone else involved in this series have no understanding of the impact of years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. And perhaps, after all, Monsters It's about Ryan Murphy.
