Out actor Cooper Koch responds to ‘Monsters’ controversy, says he “stands with” Erik Menéndez

Image Credits: ‘Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menéndez Story,’ Netflix (left) | Erik Menéndez via Getty Images (rgiht)

The massive popularity of Ryan Murphy and Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menéndez Story means that suddenly everybody’s weighing in on decades-old trials that caused a media frenzy and ended in a pretty decisive verdict: Guilty.

But, this time, it’s not the fact that the Menéndez Brothers murdered their own parents in 1989 that’s up for questioning—it’s whether or not Lyle and Erik had an incestuous relationship.

Since its homoerotic first teaser, Monsters‘ approach to this unsubstantiated rumor has been controversial, to say the least. Multiple scenes in the series depict varying levels of sexual intimacy between Lyle (played by Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and his younger

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