Rosie O’Donnell Supports the Menendez Brothers as Potential Re-Trial Emerges

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00:00There's more legal news.

00:02Could the Menendez brothers go free?

00:04The two have been behind bars for almost 35 years,

00:07serving life sentences

00:09for the brutal killings of their parents.

00:11The L.A. District Attorney announced for the first time

00:13that they're reviewing the case.

00:15The attorney for the Menendez brothers are arguing

00:17that there are two key pieces of evidence that are new.

00:22The first is that Eric and Lyle's father

00:24molested someone else,

00:26and this was an individual named Roy,

00:28who was a member of the boy band Menudo,

00:31who's come forward.

00:32The other is that one of the brothers wrote a letter

00:35to their cousin talking about the abuse

00:38months before the murders happened.

00:41The fact that the boys were not allowed

00:43to use their defense of childhood sexual abuse.

00:47They had so many witnesses,

00:50and now there's new evidence.

00:52Stars are showing their support.

00:54Kim Kardashian, who recently visited the brothers

00:56in prison, says they are not monsters.

00:59She wrote an essay for NBC News calling for their freedom,

01:02adding that while the killings are not excusable,

01:05we owe it to those little boys who lost their childhoods,

01:08who never had a chance to be heard, helped, or saved.

01:12Rosie O'Donnell says she spoke to the brothers

01:14just before the bombshell announcement.

01:16They were like afraid to hope,

01:18and I was like their cheerleader,

01:20going, come on, boys, this is it.

01:24The new developments come amid heightened interest

01:26in the case, thanks in part to Ryan Murphy's

01:28Monsters, The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story.

01:31Ryan's take, I think they can be out of prison by Christmas.

01:35And streaming Monday, a new Netflix doc,

01:37The Menendez Brothers, featuring phone interviews

01:40from the men in prison.

01:41We looked like the perfect family,

01:43but behind the walls, something very wrong was happening.

01:47To be those two children at eight years old

01:51having torturous sex abuse,

01:55it happens, people.

01:57We weren't ready to accept that in 1989,

02:00and now we have to be ready to say,

02:03hey, we made a mistake.

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