Erik Menendez, one of the two real-life brothers depicted in Ryan Murphy‘s Netflix series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, has spoken out.
In an online statement posted on his wife Tammi Menendez’s X account, Menendez, who was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder along with his brother Lyle for killing their parents, said that the drama series perpetrated “ruinous character portrayals” of them both.
The statement also accused Murphy of having bad intent based on the way the story was told.
“It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent,” wrote Menendez in his statement.
Menendez, who is currently serving out a life sentence with his brother Lyle at the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California, called out
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