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Erik Menendez calls out Monsters creator for ‘blatant lies’ as he slams Netflix in new statement

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Updated 16:23 23 Sep 2024 GMT+1Published 17:30 20 Sep 2024 GMT+1

Erik Menendez calls out Monsters creator for ‘blatant lies’ as he slams Netflix in new statement

Convicted murderer Erik Menendez has hit out at Netflix and the show's creator

Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin

Erik Menendez has released a statement in which he has slammed the new series of Monsters portraying him and his brother's murder of their parents.

The Netflix show covers the pair's murder of their parents, a story which captivated America through the 1990s.

Erik and Lyle did not dispute while on trial that they killed their parents, but disputed the reasoning for their murders.

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The Menendez Brothers (Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The Menendez Brothers (Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

While prosecutors claimed Erik and Lyle killed their parents to pocket their inheritance, they pointed to different reasons.

The pair claimed that their father, Jose, had sexually abused them for years and therefore had killed him in self defence.

This was due to his reported threats to them if they exposed his abuse.

This claim was rejected in court, but has been maintained by the brothers ever since.

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Erik is played in the show by Cooper Koch (Netflix)
Erik is played in the show by Cooper Koch (Netflix)

Speaking of the Netflix show, Erik released the following statement: "I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show.

"I can only believe they were done so on purpose. 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."

Ryan Murphy created the show, which covered the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer in the first season.

“It is sad for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths several steps backward – back through time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma differently than women.

“Those awful lies have been disrupted and exposed by countless brave victims over the last two decades who have broken through their personal shame and bravely spoken out.

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"So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative through vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.

“Is the truth not enough? Let the truth stand as truth. How demoralising to know one man with power can undermine decades of progress in shedding light on childhood trauma. Violence is never an answer, never a solution, and is always tragic.

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"As such, I hope it is never forgotten that violence against a child creates a hundred horrendous and silent crime scenes darkly shadowed behind glitter and glamour and rarely exposed until tragedy penetrates everyone involved.

"To all those who have reached out and supported me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart."

LADbible has reached out to Netflix for comment.

Featured Image Credit: MIKE NELSON/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images/The LA Times

Topics: Netflix, TV, TV and Film, True Crime, Menendez Brothers

Michael Slavin
Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin is LADbible's dedicated specialist Film and TV writer. Following his completion of a Masters in International Journalism at Salford University, he began working for the Warrington Guardian as a reporter. Throughout this he did freelance work about Entertainment for publications such as DiscussingFilm, where he was the Film and TV editor. Now, he is LAD's go to voice on all things Netflix, True Crime, and UK TV, as well as interviewing huge global stars such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Daisy Ridley, and Ben Stiller.

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