Erik Menendez Reacts to Brother Lyle's Apology for Molesting Him

By Sabba Rahbar Oct 15, 2024 7:31 PMTags

And the infinitesimal was particularly poignant for Erik, present 53, as helium looked backmost connected his brother's apology each these years later. "I retrieve erstwhile helium apologized to maine connected the basal for molesting me," Erik explained successful the documentary. "That was a devastating infinitesimal for me."

He added, "He had ne'er said helium was atrocious to maine before."

During his testimony, Lyle, present 56, also shared that helium had told his parent Kitty astir their father's abuse, but that she hadn't expressed interest for the issues.

"She told maine to halt it and that I was exaggerating," Lyle said during the trial. "And that my dada has to punish maine erstwhile I bash things wrong. And she…she told maine that helium loved me."

But contempt that, Erik successful peculiar wanted to acceptable the grounds consecutive astir however overmuch helium loved his parent and how blameworthy helium inactive feels implicit her loss.

"I miss my parent tremendously," helium said successful the documentary. "I privation that I could spell backmost and speech to her and springiness her a hug and archer her I emotion her and I wanted her to emotion maine and beryllium blessed with maine and beryllium blessed that I was her lad and consciousness that joyousness and that connection. And I conscionable privation that."

The brothers besides discussed the trouble successful laying retired truthful overmuch of their beingness during the trial, with Lyle saying that helium "deeply did not privation to speech astir thing that happened successful our past."

But arsenic defence experts Dr. Ann Burgess noted successful the documentary, after gathering with the boys—Lyle and Erik were 21 and 18 respectively astatine the time—shortly aft the murders, "I had said determination has to beryllium thing going connected successful the household for this to person happened."

"That is not thing that they request money, oregon immoderate different motive, oregon revenge, oregon each of the different motives that we could deliberation of," she continued. "I said, ‘Something is precise incorrect successful the family.'"

Following their 2nd proceedings successful 1996—their archetypal proceedings ended successful a hung jury—Lyle and Erik were convicted of 2 counts of first-degree execution and sentenced to beingness successful prison.

The duo's lawsuit has gained much attraction successful caller months successful portion acknowledgment to the Netflix documentary, arsenic good as Ryan Murphy's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez story miniseries.

Lyle and Erik besides precocious got a boost from Kim Kardashian, who visited the brothers astatine their San Diego situation successful September and wrote successful an op-ed that they merit a caller trial.

"I person spent clip with Lyle and Erik; they are not monsters," the Kardashians star said successful the op-ed. "They are kind, intelligent, and honorable men."

"I don't judge that spending their full earthy lives incarcerated was the close punishment for this analyzable case," she added. "Had this transgression been committed and trialed today, I judge the result would person been dramatically different."