Rosie O'Donnell is giving her view on the Menendez brothers, saying she "feels like a big sister" to Erik and Lyle amid calls for their release.

Erik and Lyle have been incarcerated for the murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, since 1996. Now that ‘Monsters’ has brought more attention to the brothers’ story,

Rosie O'Donnell received a letter from Lyle Menendez about 30 years ago after he saw her on "Larry King Live," saying that she believed Erik’s claims that they were molested by their father. "I was out to lunch with Barbara Walters and our publicist Cindy Berger,

Less than a month after the release of the "Monsters" series, a new documentary featuring recorded phone calls of Erik and Lyle Menendez is coming to Netflix.

Comedian Rosie O’Donnell has revealed a surprising link to the Menendez brothers, who she says consider her their “big sister”. They were arrested for first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder outside their home in March 1990 and sentenced in 1996.

"Back in 1989, no one was ready to believe that fathers raped their sons. But they do,” O’Donnell told NewsNation’s “CUOMO.”