Kim Kardashian paid an surprising go to to jail to talk with Erik and Lyle Menendez after a Netflix dramatisation of their life.
Consideration has been delivered to the brothers’ case as a result of backlash surrounding Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, created by Ryan Murphy.
Erik, 53, and Lyle, 56, had been jailed for all times with out the potential for parole in 1996, after confessing to the homicide of their mother and father Jose and Kitty Menendez.
Throughout the trial, they claimed they acted in self-defence, having been sexually abused by their father from as younger as six years outdated.
The present has proved controversial, with a sequence of ‘incestuous’ scenes between the brothers coming below hearth from relations and Erik himself.
Kim, 43, is claimed to have visited on the weekend to debate jail reform with the brothers in addition to the Greenspace mission, which they’re concerned in.
She was joined by her sister Khloe and actor Cooper Koch, who stars as Erik within the present, at San Diego’s Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility.
The truth star, who’s coaching as a lawyer and advocates for jail reform, has beforehand labored with Ryan in his sequence American Horror Story.
Kim is about to work with him as soon as once more on a sequence referred to as All’s Honest, made particularly for her by the Glee creator.
Erik dismissed the Netflix dramatisation as full of ‘blatant lies’, stating that the Ryan may ‘solely have dangerous intent’.
In an announcement, launched by his spouse Tammi, he stated: ‘I believed we had moved past the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, making a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant within the present. I can solely imagine they had been carried out so on function.
‘It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I say, I imagine Ryan Murphy can’t be this naive and inaccurate concerning the info of our lives in order to do that with out dangerous intent.
‘It’s unhappy for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths a number of steps backward – again by means of time to an period when the prosecution constructed a story on a perception system that males weren’t sexually abused, and that males skilled rape trauma in another way than girls.
‘These terrible lies have been disputed and uncovered by numerous courageous victims during the last 20 years who’ve damaged by means of their private disgrace and bravely spoken out. So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative by means of vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.’
Followers have expressed related sentiment on-line, having watched scenes by which Erik and Lyle (portrayed by Nicholas Chavez) share a bathe and kiss.
Given the brothers’ defence that they had been sexually abused by their father, this has been broadly criticised as inappropriate and dangerous.
That is the second time the Monster anthology sequence has come below hearth as in 2022, the true crime sequence The Jeffrey Dahmer Story was additionally criticised.
Regardless of being an enormous hit with Emmy and Golden Globe nominations, the households of the assassin’s victims stated the present was profiting off their grief and ‘retraumatising’ them once more.
Metro.co.uk has reached out to Kim Kardashian and Ryan Murphy’s reps for remark.
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