Well, that figures…
Lyle and Erik Menendez have more than a friend in comedian Rosie O’Donnell. They have a “big sister.”
O’Donnell is speaking out about how she’s championed the brothers, who are currently locked behind bars in San Diego serving life sentences without the possibility of parole in the murders of their parents, Jose and Mary “Kitty” Menendez.
The men have seen a resurgence in their story thanks to documentaries and television series being made about them, most recently Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” which both brothers have condemned.
O’Donnell says their history is complex.
“I was out to lunch with Barbara Walters and our publicist Cindy Berger, and I said, ‘Barbara, you’re not going to believe this, but guess who wrote to me – Lyle Menendez,” O’Donnell told Variety. “Barbara said, ‘Ignore him, he’s a murderer. He’s very cunning.’”
In 1996, Walters famously interviewed both Lyle and Erik in prison.