LyleandErik Menendezs family are questioning whos the real monster followingRyan Murphys recentNetflixportrayal.
We are virtually the entire extended family of Erik and Lyle Menendez, VanderMolen started in theletter.
We are 24 strong and today we want the world to know we support Erik and Lyle.
The trial of brothers Erik and Lyle Menéndez.Ted Soqui/Sygma via Getty Images
We individually and collectively pray for their release after being imprisoned for 35 years.
We know them, love them, and want them home with us.
Our family has been victimized by this grotesque shockudrama.
Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez, Chloë Sevigny as Kitty Menendez, Javier Bardem as Jose Menéndez, Cooper Koch as Erik Menéndez inMonsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story.Courtesy of Netflix
We know these men.
We grew up with them since they were boys.
We love them and to this very day we are close to them.
We also know what went on in their home and the unimaginably turbulent lives they have endured.
Several of us were eyewitnesses to many atrocities one should never have to bear witness to.
Perhaps, after all,Monstersis all about Ryan Murphy, added VanderMolen.
Meanwhile, Lyle actorNicholas Alexander Chavezhas expressed sympathy and empathy for the brothers in an interview with USA Today.
Murphy has sincedefended the showas depicting many, many, many perspectives, noting to E!
There are people who say that never happened.
There were people who said it did happen.
