Ryan Murphy brushed off Erik Menendez's criticism of his true crime series, 'Monsters, saying, 'I know he hasn't watched the show.'
Murphy called Menendez’s claims “interesting” and “curious,” adding, “I hope he does watch . I think if he did watch it, he would be incredibly proud of Cooper Koch, who plays him.” in prison for murdering their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez. The brothers have long claimed that their motivations stemmed from a lifetime of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse from their parents.
Murphy rebuffed this claim outright. He said the show actively wanted to confront the issue of male sexual abuse, saying “60 to 65 percent” of the series centers around thetalking about their abuse. He even highlighted a particular episode comprised entirely of Koch, as Erik, talking about “what happened to him and why he did what he did.” Kim Porter's 'Memoir' Is Number One on Amazon.
“The show is a whodunnit like that,” Murphy continued. “We know how it ended, we know two people were brutally shot. And so I think people are a little confused about what we were trying to do.
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