Erika Kirk shared intimate memories about Charlie Kirk and their family during her first TV interview since his assassination.
When Fox News’ Jesse Watters asked Kirk, the new Turning Point USA CEO, if she fears for her safety, she said she “refuses to live in fear.”
“It’s a fearlessness that’s rooted in the understanding that I will have my day and my time, whenever that is, when the Lord knows that I have completed my mission, and I’m not afraid,” Erika said during the interview, which aired Wednesday night on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
“Charlie wasn’t afraid, either. We never lived in fear. If we did, we wouldn’t get anything done.”
Erika said she always asked Charlie if he ever thought about wearing a bulletproof vest to which he “would nod” and say he “looked into it.”
“But he would always say, ‘If they’re gonna get me, they’re gonna get me.’ He wasn’t afraid,” Erika said. “Wouldn’t have mattered anyways if he wore a vest.”
The morning of the assassination, Erika said Charlie “woke up super early,” grabbed “his wedding ring and necklace… and then he left.”
“I didn’t even get to give him a kiss goodbye,” she said.
She also told Watters she had not seen the video of her husband’s assassination and did not intend to. “I never want to see it. There are certain things you see in your life that you can never unsee. There’s certain things you see in your life that mark your soul forever.”
“There is so much beauty in this world. Why would you waste any portion of your life looking at something so evil?” she added.
One thing about Charlie is that he would name “every single one” of his daughter’s and son’s stuffed animals, Erika shared.
“You see him being on stage in front of thousands of people, commanding the presence, telling them all about Western civilization… And then you see him come home and just be a dad. Go play with them in the pool. Love on them, tickle them, play with them. Like even if it was just with stuffed animals, play with them,” she described.
Erika said her daughter keeps asking where Charlie is.
“I said, ‘If ever you want to talk to Daddy, you just look up to the sky and start talking. He can hear you,” she said. “And I told her, I said, ‘Daddy is in heaven.’ She goes, ‘Do you think I could go sometime?’ I said ‘Baby, we will all go one day. We will all go one day.’”
