Um, Kim Kardashian just visited Erik and Lyle Menendez in prison after Monsters backlash

Kim Kardashian visited Lyle and Erik Menendez in prison over the weekend after Ryan Murphy’s divisive true crime series Monsters released on Netflix last week. According to TMZ, Kim Kardashian along with her mother Kris and sister Khloe visited San Diego County’s Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility – with actor Cooper Koch who plays Erik and film producer Scott Budnick. The visit happened just after Erik’s wife released statement condemning Monsters as “disheartening slander”.

Over the weekend where everyone was binging Monsters on Netflix, Kim Kardashian – who has been working for a long time on prison reform in the US – is said to have visited the prison to discuss reform with Lyle and Erik Menendez as well as other inmates. She also discussed the Greenspace project centred on beautifying outside spaces in prisons – which the Menendez brothers have been involved with.

Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has received both praise for its incredible performances, as well as criticism and backlash towards the ethics of true crime fiction and the apparent embellishment of fictionalised elements. Erik Menendez released a statement on Twitter / X through his wife Tammi. The statement blasts the show, saying “I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show. I can only believe they were done so on purpose. It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent.

“It is sad for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths several steps backward – back through time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma differently than women. Those awful lies have been disputed and exposed by countless brave victims over the last two decades who have broken through their personal shame and bravely spoken out. So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative through vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.

“Is the truth not enough? Let the truth stand as the truth. How demoralizing to know that one man with power can undermine decades of progress in shedding light on childhood trauma. Violence is never an answer, never a solution, and is always tragic. As such, I hope it is never forgotten that violence against a child creates a hundred horrendous and silent crime scenes darkly shadowed behind glitter and glamor and rarely exposed until tragedy penetrates everyone involved. To all those who have reached out and supported me, thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is available on Netflix now. For all the latest Netflix news, drops and memes like The Holy Church of Netflix on Facebook.

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