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Ryan Murphy, the creator of “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” is defending the new Netflix series after it was harshly criticized by one of the brothers. Erik Menendez slammed the series, released Sept. 19 on Netflix, as 'blatant lies' and called the portrayal of his brother Lyle 'ruinous' in a statement from prison released by his wife.
Our view and what we wanted to do was present you all the facts and have you do two things: make up your own mind about who’s innocent, who’s guilty, and who’s the monster, and also have a conversation about something that’s never talked about in our culture, which is male sexual abuse, which we do responsibly.” The brothers in their first trials had said they were sexually abused for years by their father and killed their parents out of fear and trauma.
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