Menendez, one half of the Menendez brothers who were convicted in 1989 of murdering their parents in their Beverly Hills, California home along with brother Lyle Menendez, spoke out about the series. In a statement shared with his wife, Tammie Menendez called it “a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies” on social media Thursday night.

“I can only believe that they did this on purpose,” he said in the statement. “It is with a heavy heart that I say that I believe Ryan Murphy could not be so naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives to do this without malicious intent.”

He continued: “It’s sad to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crimes has taken the painful truth several steps back in time — back to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that men were not sexually abused and that men experienced rape trauma differently than women.”

Menendez added in his statement that “these horrible lies have been disrupted and exposed over the past two decades by countless brave victims who have broken through their personal shame and bravely spoken out” and that “Murphy shapes his horrible story through disgusting and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and me and disheartening smears.” He later asked “isn’t the truth enough?” and thanked people for their support.