Erik Menendez owned his past by acknowledging he was a “spoiled brat” growing up, but things have radically changed.

Erik and Lyle Menendez were on TMZ’s “2 Angry Men” podcast with Mark Geragos and Harvey Levin, and Harvey was blunt … telling Erik when he covered their trial many years ago, his impression — which was shared by many others — was that they were spoiled brats.

Erik was clear … guilty as charged, saying back then he thought he could mask his insecurities with expensive clothes and fancy cars. He went on to say measuring success by the stuff he acquired was ridiculous.

Erik and Lyle also talk about how they were brutalized behind bars early on in their prison stints … and that includes Lyle suffering a broken jaw in a prison attack.

Eric Mabius — a veteran television actor — has been arrested in Florida for battery … TMZ has learned.

The star was arrested Thursday morning and booked into the Nassau County Jail and Detention Center just before 6 AM.

He was booked on two charges … battery and resisting an officer without violence. They are both misdemeanor charges. He’s not smiling in his mug shot — and, it appears he may have a cut by his right eye.

Eric’s big break came on “Ugly Betty,” where he played Daniel Meade — editor of “Mode,” the prestigious fashion magazine America Ferrera‘s Betty works at — in 85 episodes of the show.

His other credits include … “The O.C.,” “Signed, Sealed, Delivered,” “Blue Bloods,” “Franklin & Bash,” “Chicago Fire,” “Outcasts” and more.

We’ve reached out to cops and Mabius’ team … so far, no word back.

Kim Kardashian is being dragged to court over a social media screw-up … she’s being sued by a guy she mistakenly identified as a death row inmate.

According to a new lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Kim is being sued by Ivan Cantu … a project manager from New York who Kim identified as a man awaiting the death penalty in a Texas prison cell.

Kim posted a photo of the wrong Ivan Cantu on her social media in February 2024 when she was trying to bring awareness to the case of an inmate by the same name … and Ivan says the mix-up subjected him to public embarrassment, shame, hatred, ridicule, disgrace, contempt and aversion.

He says Kim’s post made him lose sleep, get headaches, have nightmares and experience PTSD … and he says she’s hurt his reputation and made him need medical care and emotional counseling.

As we first reported … Ivan blasted Kim at the time, saying some “idiot” who runs her social media accounts used his picture instead of death row inmate Ivan “Abner” Cantu. That inmate was executed on schedule, BTW.

The SKIMS founder took down the post in question but Ivan says the damage was already done because she has hundreds of millions of followers … and he’s going after her for money.