Erika Kirk spoke openly about the last day she spent with Charlie Kirk, recounting the shock that followed his sudden assassination, the gutting moment she learned the news, and how she has steered her family through the immediate fallout. In a moving interview she told Jesse Watters she refuses to watch the footage of his death and pushed back against online theories while praising the investigation team. She described the scene at the hospital, the way Charlie looked when she finally saw him, and the private decisions she has made for their children. Her words mix grief, faith, and a demand for dignity as the family navigates public scrutiny.
Erika opened the interview with clear emotion, telling viewers how raw the loss still feels. She explained why she will never watch the video of the killing and how that choice is a boundary she set for herself and her children. The interview took place on Fox News with Jesse Watters, and her tone was both heartbroken and resolute. She made it plain she will protect her family’s privacy amid a maelstrom of speculation.
“I never saw the video, I never will see it,” she told Fox News’ Jesse Watters. “I never want to see it, there are certain things you see in your life that you can never unsee. There are certain things you see in your life that mark your soul forever. I don’t want my husband’s public assassination to be something I ever see. I don’t want my kids to ever see that.”
She recalled Charlie’s excitement the night before his event and the routine moments that now ache. The night before his event at Utah Valley University, “he [Charlie] was so excited. I mean, he was like I can’t wait, it’s going to be the best,” Erika said. The following morning he grabbed his ring and necklace and left, and she thought about the ordinary goodbye she missed. “He came in and he grabbed that [wedding ring and necklace] and then he left. I didn’t even get to give him a kiss goodbye,” she continued.
At the time of the shooting Erika had been in Arizona caring for her mother, and the phone call that changed everything arrived while she was watching lighthearted videos. She described how a friend called with the single line that turned her world upside down. “Mikey [McCoy] called me,” she recounted. “I’ll never forget, him just being like, Charlie’s been shot. He’s been shot, get the kids. Get security, get the kids, get the kids, he’s been shot. I sprinted out of her treatment center and just collapsed in the middle of the parking lot.”
She said the next hours felt like an “unbelievable nightmare” and struggled to reconcile sudden death with the life she knew. “The way the bullet hit him, he died instantaneously,” Erika said. “He died on the scene. But I’m so glad he didn’t suffer, I’m so glad he didn’t suffer. No one deserves to suffer, but a handful of people. He literally blinked and probably thought he was raptured and looked around and was like, where’s everybody else? He blinked, and he was with the Lord.”
Erika also addressed the hard choices they’d discussed about safety and how Charlie met risks with defiance. “I used to say, Charlie, have you ever thought about wearing a vest? He would nod to that and be like, you know, I’ve looked into it, but he would always say, ‘if they’re going to get me, they’re gonna get me.’ He wasn’t afraid. Wouldn’t have mattered anyways if you wore a vest.”
When she arrived in Utah, staff at the hospital urged patience while the mortuary prepared his body, but Erika insisted on seeing him immediately. She wanted the chance to give the goodbye she missed that morning and to know the truth about what had happened. “I responded back to him and I said, with all due respect, sir. I want to see what they did to my husband and I want to give him a kiss because I didn’t get to give him a kiss this morning,” she said.
Seeing Charlie at the mortuary became a strange, sacred moment that cut through the worst of the public spectacle. Erike recalled that her husband looked “so alive” when she saw him. “I’m just so glad I saw him because… when you see someone at the mortuary, they never look the same. They have awful makeup and they’re cold. He was still warm, and his eyes were slightly open. It was so powerful, Jesse. He had this smirk on his face.”
She interpreted that smirk as defiance — a message that the movement he built could not be killed with his body. “That smirk to me is that look of: you thought you could stop what I’ve built,” she continued. “This vision, this movement, this revival, you thought you could do that by murdering me. You got my body. You didn’t get my soul.”
Erika urged restraint online and warned about the damage conspiracy chatter does to grieving children and a family trying to heal. “Please think about what you post. What’s shared online will impact his kids in the future. I just want my children to one day go online and see something that honors who he really was — not the noise, not the lies. Some grace would be nice,” she said. She added that she trusts the investigators handling the case, calling their efforts “incredible.”
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