Erik Menendez is slamming Netflix's show "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story," based on the 1989 murder of Jose and Kitty Menendez, as "awful lies" and a "horrible narrative," in a statement shared by his wife, Tammi Menendez. Tammi Menendez, , , the day "Monsters" dropped on the streaming platform. "Erik’s response to the Netflix’s series," she tweeted.
"The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" is the second season in the Ryan Murphy's "Monster" anthology, which started with a series on Jeffrey Dahmer. The nine-episode show follows the lead up and aftermath of the murder of and on Aug. 20, 1989.
Joseph “Lyle” Menendez, now 56, and Erik Menendez, now 53, were convicted of the murders in 1996 after two trials. They were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole and . The X account for Tammi Menendez has posted updates on Erik Menendez for years, including his reported reaction to "Monsters.
" TODAY.com reached out to an attorney for Lyle and Erik Menendez and numbers listed for Tammi Menendez but did not hear back at the time of publication. “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,” the statement posted by Tammi Menendez began.
“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 inten.