Bea Alonzo as Lyle Menendez (Mark Kingson Qua via Instagram)
Bea Alonzo seems to have made a bad choice in putting up a Lyle Menendez Halloween costume.
Lyle, an American, achieved notoriety when he and his brother Erik were found guilty of killing their parents.
The brothers were thrust to the limelight again as their story was featured in a Netflix series that tells about the abuse they suffered from their parents.
After sharing her Lyle Halloween photos via Instagram last Nov. 1, Bea took it out, offering no explanation.
“Call me Lyle,” Bea said in her caption of the now-deleted post where she used the hashtag “Halloween 2024.”
But Bea, through her Instagram Stories, reposted the Lyle photo, even tagging her team who helped achieve the look. Bea’s makeup artist Mark Kingson Qua shared some poses from Bea’s controversial Halloween pictorial.
As the photo was already taken down, netizens reacted on Bea’s other Instagram post, saying they were utterly disappointed over the actress’ choice of a Halloween team.
“People dressing up as rape survivors for Halloween is utterly disgusting. A survivor cannot take off a costume at the end of the day. The pain is always there. And to mock the pain of rape is despicable. Shame on all who do it. Lyle and Erik are not characters. They are real people who have been suffering trauma since the day they were born. Halloween is supposed to be fun. There is nothing fun about being a rape and child abuse survivor,” one netizen commented.
Convicted of first-degree murder, the case of Lyle and Erik is now up for re-examination after new evidence showed that they were abused by their father. (NIGEL CHAVEZ DE ESTRADA)
