Erik Menendez’s spouse Tammi shares assertion criticizing Netflix collection as ‘dishonest portrayal’

Erik Menendez is slamming Netflix’s present “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” primarily based on the 1989 homicide of Jose and Kitty Menendez, as “terrible lies” and a “horrible narrative,” in a press release shared by his spouse, Tammi Menendez.

Tammi Menendez, who married Erik Menendez in 1999, posted what she labeled as “Erik’s response to the Netflix’s series” to X on Sept. 19, the day “Monsters” dropped on the streaming platform.

“The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” is the second season within the Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” anthology, which began with a collection on Jeffrey Dahmer.

The nine-episode present follows the lead up and aftermath of the homicide of Jose and Kitty Menendez on Aug. 20, 1989.

Joseph “Lyle” Menendez, now 56, and Erik Menendez, now 53, have been convicted of the murders in 1996 after two trials. They have been sentenced to life imprisonment with out parole and remain incarcerated.

The X account for Tammi Menendez has posted updates on Erik Menendez for years, together with his reported response to “Monsters.” TODAY.com reached out to an legal professional for Lyle and Erik Menendez and numbers listed for Tammi Menendez however didn’t hear again on the time of publication.

“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,” the assertion posted by Tammi Menendez started. “I can solely imagine they have been accomplished so on function. 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 details of our lives in order to do that with out dangerous intent.”

The assertion went on to name the present a “dishonest portrayal” and criticized the depiction of the sexual abuse Erik and Lyle Menendez accused their father of of their first trial, which led to hung juries.

Lyle and Erik Menendez testified that their father began abusing them after they have been every 6 years outdated, in response to “The Menendez Murders” by journalist Robert Rand. However prosecutors on the first trial argued the brothers killed their mother and father for his or her property’s cash.

In a second trial that started in 1995, the allegations of abuse have been deemed inadmissible.

“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 via 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 otherwise than ladies,” the assertion posted by Tammi Menendez mentioned.

“How demoralizing is it to know that one man with energy can undermine a long time of progress in shedding mild on childhood trauma,” the assertion continued. “Violence isn’t a solution, by no means an answer, and is at all times tragic. As such, I hope it’s by no means forgotten that violence in opposition to a baby creates 100 horrendous and silent crime scenes darkly shadowed behind glitter and glamor and barely uncovered till tragedy penetrates everybody concerned.”

TODAY.com didn’t instantly hear again from representatives for Netflix and Murphy.

Since premiering Thursday, “Monsters” has also faced criticism from viewers for scenes that counsel the brothers had an intimate relationship. Within the present’s second episode, the brothers kiss and dance seductively as a celebration. Rand’s “The Menendez Murders” e book doesn’t suggest the brothers had a sexual relationship.

Murphy has not publicly responded to the backlash.