Monsters – The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story: Netflix show sparks controversy

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Murphy said:, external “I think it’s interesting that he’s issued a statement without having seen the show.

He acknowledged: “It’s really hard, if it’s your life, to see your life up on screen.

“The thing I find interesting, that he doesn’t mention in his quote, is that if you watch the show, I would say 60-65% of our show centre around the abuse, and what they claim happened to them.

“We do it very carefully and we give them their day in court, and they talk openly about it.”

But, Murphy added, he and his team felt it was important to also show things from the parents’ point of view.

“In this age where people can talk about sexual abuse, talking and writing about all points of view can be controversial,” he said.

“There were four people involved, two people are dead, what about the parents? We had an obligation as storytellers to also try and put in their perspective based on our research, which we did.”

Murphy also later responded to criticism from the brothers’ family about the series, telling Variety, external their comments were “predictable at best”.

Members of the family said , externalthe pair have been “victimised, external by this grotesque shockadrama,” adding the show is “riddled with mistruths”.

Murphy said their response was “interesting because I would like specifics about what they think is shocking or not shocking. It’s not like we’re making any of this stuff up. It’s all been presented before”.

The family’s statement also said: “The character assassination of Erik and Lyle, who are our nephews and cousins, under the guise of a ‘story telling narrative’, is repulsive.”

They added: “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.”