"Virtually the entire extended" Menendez family detests Ryan Murphy's Monsters
Lyle and Erik Menendez's family calls Ryan Murphy's series "a phobic, gross, anachronistic, serial episodic nightmare"
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Following Erik Menendez’s statement condemning Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the brothers’ family members have joined him in speaking out against Ryan Murphy’s true crime series. “We are virtually the entire extended family of Erik and Lyle Menéndez. We are 24 strong and today we want the world to know we support Erik and Lyle,” their statement, posted to social media, reads. “We individually and collectively pray for their release after being imprisoned for 35 years. We know them, love them, and want them home with us.”
The statement, which was shared by Erik’s wife Tammy and attributed to the brothers’ aunt Joan VanderMolen and family, describes the show as “a phobic, gross, anachronistic, serial episodic nightmare that is not only riddled with mistruths and outright falsehoods but ignores the most recent exculpatory revelations.” It continues, “Our family has been victimized by this grotesque shockadrama. Murphy claims he spent years researching the case but in the end relied on debunked Dominick Dunne, the pro-prosecution hack, to justify his slander against us and never spoke to us.”
This is the official response from Joan VanderMolen (Erik’s Aunt) and the Menendez Family to the Netflix Series” “Monsters, the Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” and to Ryan Murphy.#Menendez #NetflixMonsters #RyanMurphy pic.twitter.com/o7KEOEoYwr