Kim Kardashian visited the Richard J. Donovan Correctional facility close to San Diego on Saturday to talk about jail reform with a big group of inmates, together with brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez.
Kardashian was joined by sister Khloe Kardashian, mom Kris Jenner, movie producer Scott Budnick and actor Cooper Koch, who performs Erik in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix biopic sequence “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.”
The Menendez brothers, who fatally shot their dad and mom Kitty and Jose Menendez in 1989, had been convicted of first-degree homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide. They had been sentenced to life imprisonment with out parole.
On Friday, Erik slammed “Monsters,” saying that the Netflix anthology sequence’ second installment perpetuated “ruinous character portrayals” of him and his brother Lyle.
“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,” Menendez wrote in his assertion, which was posted on his wife Tammi Menendez’s X (formerly Twitter) account.
Kardashian not too long ago labored with Murphy on one other rendition of “American Horror Story.” The actor and actuality star additionally commonly visits prisons to be taught and talk about rehabilitation applications and jail reform, which she has shared on Kardashian TV reveals and mentioned at Variety’s Justice Reform Summit.
Earlier this 12 months, Kardashian sat down with “Monsters” star Chloë Sevigny, who portrays Kitty Menendez in the “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” for Variety’s Actors on Actors. Together, they spoke about the Menendez household forward of the season’s launch.
Sevigny revealed the challenges she confronted embodying the Menendez matriarch, saying, “We’re playing interpretations of her, so I’m not necessarily playing her truth, which I’ve found very difficult.”
“I grew up right down the street from the house that all happened in, and everyone went to the same schools,” Kardashian replied. “I remember hearing about that case. But my dad drove me by the house and told me the story. And he had been in the house. Since the boys are still alive, if they tried to connect with you, would you be open to it?”
“I think it’s a slippery slope, and I think the legal aspects are really dangerous as well,” Sevigny mentioned. “I’ve done a lot of true crime, and, honestly, I find it a little mentally exhausting just thinking about those responsibilities to the victims, to even the killers and their family members.”
TMZ was first to report Kardashian’s go to.
