Lyle Menendez congratulated the mini-series “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez” from Netflix after he represented him and his brother Erik Menendez, who is currently serving his life without parole for the 1989 murder of their parents.
“He really made a lot of people move to understand the trauma of childhood that Erik and I suffered, and in particular the horrible things that Erik has suffered,” said Lyle Menendez in a rare interview with Harvey Levin de Tmz who broadcast Fox on Monday.
Menendez – Who has been incarcerated for over 35 years – revealed that the two have been able to watch “a little”, sometimes by video chat, from the series after its release last year.
The brothers allegedly alleged that their parents – José and Kitty Menendez abused them sexually, physically and emotionally for years before the murders of Beverly Hills, California, Mansion.
“I think that in the end, many people have been educated on what can happen even in rich, in wealthy houses and behind the walls and behind the hedges, you know, and well -maintained lawns,” said Lyle Menendez in the telephone interview of a California state prison.
“And so I think it has opened the eyes of many people, and it’s always a good thing.”
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The Netflix mini-series, which has taken three leading leads to the Golden Globe Awards of this year, was one of the many shows and documentaries re-examining the Menendez brothers affair which sparked a movement calling for their prison release.
In October, the Los Angeles County District Prosecutor George Gascón recommended that the brothers will be sentenced to 50 years for life – which would immediately make them eligible for parole.
The Gascón Progressist would lose a re-election offer to the District Prosecutor of the county now-Los Angeles, Nathan Hochman, who prompted the brothers to stay in prison and should ask a judge to withdraw the request for renown later this week.
The brothers should also appear before a parole for the State of California in June.
The latest remarks by Lyle Menendez, who were tightened in February on TMZ’s “2 Angry Men” podcast, arrived after his brother (in a statement shared by his wife) criticized the show for his “dishonest representation” of the two and torn the co-creator of the Ryan Murphy show for his “bad intention”.
The brothers’ family, in a later declaration, also struck the series to be an “episodic nightmare in a phobic, raw, anachronistic and series series” which is “riddled with errors and lies.
Murphy defended the show in October, telling the Hollywood Reporter that the brothers should send him “flowers” and argued that “many people have offered to help them” as a result.
Kim Kardashian is one of those who visited the brothers after the show was released.
The producer of films and defender of criminal justice Scott Budnick told HuffPost at the time that the brothers “understood the positive net” of the program despite its disadvantages.
