Menendez Family Slams Ryan Murphy in New Statement: “Perhaps, after all, Monsters is all about Ryan”
Erik and Lyle Menendez’s family slams Ryan Murphy and his ‘Monsters’ series in new statement:
“a phobic, gross, anachronistic, serial episodic nightmare… Our family has been victimized by this grotesque shockadrama. […] Perhaps, after all, Monsters is all about Ryan Murphy.” pic.twitter.com/QY9E4KUU3U
- Pop Base (@PopBase) September 26, 2024
Erik and Lyle Menendez’s family slams Ryan Murphy and his ‘Monsters’ series in new statement. It was penned by the brothers’ aunt Joan VanderMolen, on behalf of the family’s 24 members.
“It is sad that Ryan Murphy, Netflix, and all others involved in this series, do not have an understanding of the impact of years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Perhaps, after
all, Monsters is all about Ryan Murphy."
Read the full statement above.
Ryan Murphy is pushing back against members of Erik and Lyle Menendez’s family who have slammed Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” as a “grotesque shockadrama.”
“The family’s response is predictable at best,” Murphy says. https://t.co/cy7m9IjazP
- Variety (@Variety) September 26, 2024
“The family’s response is predictable at best,” Murphy said, just hours after the family’s statement was released. “I find it interesting because I would like specifics about what they think is shocking or not shocking. It’s not like we’re making any of this stuff up. It’s all been presented before. What we’re doing is we’re the first to present it in one contained ecosystem. What’s grotesque about it? … Tammi [and] the family, they have always done this and they did this recently - they say, ‘lies after lies’ - but then they don’t say what the lies are. They don’t back up anything.”
Murphy also added that he believes the show is “the best thing that has happened to the Menendez brothers in 30 years.” He says, “They are now being talked about by millions of people all over the world. There’s a documentary coming out into two weeks about them, also on Netflix. And I think the interesting thing about it is it’s asking people to answer the questions, ‘Should they get a new trial? Should they be let out of jail? What happens in our society? Should people be locked away for life? Is there no chance ever at rehabilitation?’ I’m interested in that, and a lot of people are talking about it. We’re asking really difficult questions, and it’s giving these brothers another trial in the court of public opinion. From what I can tell, it’s really opened up the possibility that this evidence that they claim that they have, maybe that there is going to be a way forward for them.”
Murphy also said he had no interesting in meeting the Menendez brothers. “I don’t know what I would say to them. What would I ask them? I know what their perspective is.”
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