Menendez Family Slams Netflix's 'Monsters' Series as Star Cooper Koch & More Defend the Show

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More members of the Mendendez family are coming out, slamming the new Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle and Erick Menendez Story. Erik Menendez‘s wife Tammi has released a statement on behalf of their aunt Joan VanderMolen and their extended family, putting the Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan-created limited series about the Mendendez brothers’ murder and trial. Keep reading to find out more… “We are virtually the entire extended family of Erik and Lyle Menéndez,” the family’s statement says, via Variety. “We are 24 strong and today we want the world to know we support Erik and Lyle.

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.” They call the show “a phobic, gross, anachronistic, serial episodic nightmare that is not only riddled with mistruths and outright falsehoods but ignores the most recent exculpatory revelations.” Continuing, the family states other relatives have “been victimized by this grotesque shockadrama,” and “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.” “The character assassination of Erik and Lyle, who are our nephews and cousins, under the guise of a ‘storytelling narrative’ is repulsive,” the family says. “We know these men.

We grew up with them since they were boys. We love them and to this very day we are close to them. We also know what went on in their home and the unimaginably turbulent lives they have endured.

Several of us were eyewitnesses to many atrocities one should never have to bear witness to.” “It is sad that Ryan Murphy, Netflix, and all others involved