Viewers of Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story are criticizing how Ryan Murphy portrayed the brothers’ relationship with one another. The present recounts what went on earlier than and after the ugly homicide of their dad and mom Jose and Kitty Menendez.
Erik and Lyle claimed they have been sexually and emotionally abused by their father Jose which prompted them to homicide their dad and mom. The brothers testified that their father had begun molesting them at a younger age and that their mom had identified about it.
In episode 2 of the Netflix sequence, Lyle (Nicholas Chavez) crops a kiss on his brother Erik’s (Cooper Koch) lips. The brothers are very open as they’re often touching and feeling one another, however many viewers thought it was an excessive amount of for the narrative and strayed away from the precise downside of sexual abuse. “The Menendez brothers have been victims of sexual abuse who lastly retaliated towards their abusers and this disgusting piece of trash has turned their story into an incestuous fanfic. Hell just isn’t scorching sufficient for Ryan Murphy,” one particular person wrote in a viral put up on X. However was their incestuous factual?
Have been the Menendez Brothers lovers in actual life?
There’s no proof that the Menendez Brothers have been lovers. Throughout the trial, one juror theorized that the motive for his or her dad and mom’ homicide was as a result of they have been in love with one another. Robert Rand recalled in his ebook The Menendez Murders: The Surprising Untold Story of the Menendez Household and the Killings that Surprised the Nation that the jury had requested to learn again “all testimony or allusions to Erik’s homosexuality.” Nonetheless, the idea was thrown out and the trial led to a hung jury.
Is Erik Menendez Homosexual?
Erik Menendez’s sexuality largely performed out within the first trial. Prosecutor Lester Kuriyama repeatedly tried to deliver up the problem of Erik’s sexuality, however Decide Weissberg refused to permit it. Throughout his closing argument, he argued to the jury that Jose had not pressured Erik into gay acts, however was in reality livid that Erik was homosexual.
Nonetheless, Erik informed Barabra Walters in 1996 that he’s not homosexual. “The prosecutor introduced that up as a result of I used to be sexually molested. He felt in his personal pondering that I used to be sodomized by my father, I should have loved it,” he informed the reporter. “Loads of homosexual individuals really feel linked to me.”
Erik Menendez is presently married to Tammi Ruth Saccoman. The 2 wed at Folsom State Jail in a jail ready room. In the meantime, Lyle was married Anna Erikkson from 1996 to 2001. He’s presently married to Rebecca Sneed.