Ryan Murphy responds to Erik Menendez’s ‘Monsters’ criticism, defends incest innuendo

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“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” has faced criticism for suggesting an incestuous relationship between the infamous brothers who went to jail for the 1989 murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.Erik, 53, spoke out in a statement and said the “dishonest” show is filled with “horrible and blatant lies” about himself and his brother Lyle, 56.Murphy, 58, responded to Erik’s criticism on Mondayat the premiere of his new FX series, “Grotesquerie.”“I think it’s interesting that he’s issued a statement without having seen the show,” Murphy said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. “It’s really, really hard — if it’s your life — to see your life up on screen,” he added.

The famous TV producer went on, “The thing that I find interesting that he doesn’t mention in his quote, is if you watch the show, I would say 60 to 65 percent of our show in the scripts and in the film form center around the abuse and what they claim happened to them.

And we do it very carefully and we give them their day in court and they talk openly about it.”Murphy explained that exploring sexual abuse on television “can be controversial,” adding, “It’s a ‘Rashomon’ kind of approach, where there were 4 people involved in that.

Two of them are dead. What about the parents? We had an obligation as storytellers to also try and put in their perspective based on our research, which we did.”When asked about the “romantic relationship” between the brothers that’s portrayed on the show, Murphy said he merely wanted the story to be told from all perspectives.“If you watch the show, what the show is doing is presenting the points of view and theories from so many people who were involved in the case,” he said.“Dominick Dunne [Vanity Fair.