
Lyle Menendez Reveals Exactly How Netflix's 'Monsters' Series 'Educated' Viewers
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His reaction comes months after his brother Erik Menendez slammed the show for offering a "dishonest portrayal" of their lives.
Lyle Menendez has praised Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” miniseries after it depicted both him and his brother Erik Menendez, who are currently serving life without parole for the 1989 murder of their parents.
“It really did actually move a lot of people to understand the childhood trauma that Erik and I suffered, and particularly the horrific stuff that Erik suffered,” Lyle Menendez said in a rare interview with TMZ’s Harvey Levin that aired on Fox on Monday.
Menendez ― who has been incarcerated for over 35 years ― revealed that the two were able to watch “quite a bit,” sometimes through video chat, of the series after its release last year.
The brothers have alleged that their parents ― José and Kitty Menendez ― sexually, physically and emotionally abused them for years leading up to the murders in the family’s Beverly Hills, California, mansion.
“I feel in the end a lot of people were educated about what can happen even in rich, in affluent homes and behind walls and behind hedges, you know, and manicured lawns,” said Lyle Menendez in the phone call interview from a California state prison.