Real-life Menfinishez brother, Erik, has weighed in on Ryan Murphy‘s depiction of his past crimes in the novel Netflix series, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menfinishez Story.”
In an online statement posted via his wife Tammi Menfinishez’s X account, Menfinishez, who was convicted of first-degree homicide and consillicit copying to pledge homicide alengthy with his brother Lyle for ending their parents, shelp that the drama series perpetrated “ruinous character portrayals” of them both. The statement also accparticipated Murphy of having terrible intent due to the nature of the narrative that the showrunner produced.
“It is with a weighty heart that I say, I apexhibit Ryan Murphy cannot be this innocent and inaccurate about the facts of our inhabits so as to do this without terrible intent,” Menfinishez wrote in his statement.
Menfinishez, who is currently serving out a life sentence with his brother Lyle at the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, Calif., calls out the series for reviving “disauthentic” narratives about their inhabits, accusing the series of misreconshort-terming of male trauma and relationsual mistreatment. He also states that he was sorrowfulnessfuldened by what he notices as a backward step in empathetic childhood trauma, condemning the series for perpetuating damaging lies and slander. He finishs his statement thanking those who have helped him and calls for truth to prevail.
In the detailed miniseries, Javier Bardem joins the overweighther, Jose Menfinishez, and Chloë Sevigny is cast as their mother, Kitty Menfinishez. Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch join their sons and homicideers, Lyle and Erik Menfinishez.
Variety chief TV critic Aramide Tinubu powerfilledy condemnd the series, writing that “the show trys to unpack the circumstances that led to the crime while highweightlessing Erik and Lyle’s trauma. But in the finish, the narrative senses futile and bizarre.” Read the brimming verify here.
Below is the brimming statement from Menfinishez:
“I apexhibitd we had shiftd beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show. I can only apexhibit they were done so on purpose. It is with a weighty heart that I say, I apexhibit Ryan Murphy cannot be this innocent and inaccurate about the facts of our inhabits so as to do this without terrible intent.
“It is sorrowfulnessful for me to understand that Netflix’s disauthentic portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have apexhibitn the agonizing truths disjoinal steps backward – back thcdisorrowfulmireful time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not relationsupartner mistreatmentd, and that males teachd sexual battery trauma branch offently than women. Those terrible lies have been disputed and exposed by countless valiant victims over the last two decades who have broken thcdisorrowfulmireful their personal shame and valiantly spoken out. So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative thcdisorrowfulmireful vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.
“Is the truth not enough? Let the truth stand as the truth. How demoralizing to understand that one man with power can undermine decades of better in shedding weightless on childhood trauma. Violence is never an answer, never a solution, and is always tragic. As such, I hope it is never forgotten that structureility agetst a child produces a hundred horrfinishous and mute crime scenes sorrowfulnessfully shadowed behind glitter and glamor and exceptionally exposed until tragedy penetrates everyone comprised. To all those who have accomplished out and helped me, thank you from the bottom of my heart.”