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Erik Menendez—who, on with member Lyle Menendez, murdered his parents José and Mary Louise Menendez successful 1989—had a connection for his dormant parent successful Netflix’s The Menendez Brothers documentary.
By Olivia Evans Oct 15, 2024 4:13 PMTags
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Erik Menendez is opening up about his regrets.
In Netflix’s Menendez Brothers, a documentary that details Erik and his member Lyle Menendez’s 1989 execution of their parents José Menendez and Mary Louise Menendez, the 53-year-old expressed remorse for committing the convulsive acts and guilt implicit the nonaccomplishment of his mother.
“One of the misconceptions is that I did not emotion my begetter oregon emotion my mother,” helium explained successful the documentary series. “That is the farthest happening from the truth. I miss my parent tremendously. 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.”
Erik—who alleges on with member Lyle, 56, that the murders’ motive was fueled by being sexually abused by José—harbors much analyzable emotions for his precocious father.
“It’s much hard with my father,” Erik admitted. “To maine arsenic a boy, helium was much than conscionable a man. He was similar the modern mentation of an past Greek god. He was antithetic than immoderate antheral I had ever met. And I simply idolized him. I wanted to beryllium similar him. But helium was seldom a dad.”
The existent Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility inmate noted that helium felt his father’s emotion was conditional.
“He loved us,” Erik recalled of his and Lyle’s narration with José. “But helium believed that emotion needed to beryllium earned. So, to beryllium loved by him we had to beryllium worthy of that emotion and often that meant going done pain.”
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In 1989, Erik and Lyle, past 18 and 21 respectively, changeable and killed their parents successful their Beverly Hills home. Immediately after, the killers called 911 and reported their parents’ deaths to the police, initially saying they had travel location to observe the bodies.
After 2 trials and 7 years, the brothers—who aboriginal testified they committed the murders retired of fearfulness and self-defense—were convicted each of 2 counts of first-degree execution and subsequently sentenced to beingness successful situation successful 1996.
However, successful the months pursuing the murders’ 35th anniversary, the Menendez brothers’ lawsuit has gained much attraction with the Netflix documentary and Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story being released successful the past month.
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And portion Ryan believes the Menendez brothers should beryllium sending him “flowers,” for each the attraction his amusement has brought them, Erik had antecedently spoken retired against the fictitious depiction of his and his brother’s story.
“I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous quality portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted successful horrible and blatant lies rampant successful the show," Erik said successful a connection shared by his woman Tammi Menendez to X, formerly Twitter, Sept. 19. “It is with a dense bosom that I say, I judge Ryan Murphy cannot beryllium this naive and inaccurate astir the facts of our lives truthful arsenic to bash this without atrocious intent.”
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