Erika Kirk (née Frantzve) has vowed to proceed honoring her husband, Charlie Kirk, after his surprising dying.
On September 10, 2025, Erika’s life was turned the other way up when her husband was shot and killed whereas talking at Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah. He was 31.
“Charlie beloved life. He beloved his life, he beloved America, he beloved nature, which all the time helped him nearer to God,” Erika stated in her first assertion following Charlie’s dying. “He was such a great man. He nonetheless is such a great man. He was the right father. He was the right husband.”
The couple — who shared two kids: a daughter born in August 2022 and a son born in Might 2024 — acquired married in 2021. After Charlie’s dying, Erika was named CEO of Turning Level USA and promised to hold on his legacy.
“He knew that evil wins when good folks keep silent,” Erika stated at Fox Nation’s Patriot Awards in November 2025. “For the remainder of my life, I’ll guarantee that I don’t keep silent. I’ll maintain talking the reality regardless of the associated fee. I pray that every one of you do too, for Charlie.”
As Erika continues to mourn the dying of her husband, maintain studying to study extra about her life after Charlie’s passing:
Erika Kirk Shares the Hardest A part of Her Days Right this moment
Charlie and Erika Kirk Courtesy of Charlie Kirk/Instagram
In her first TV interview since Charlie’s dying, Erika was requested to share the toughest a part of her day.
“The nights are the toughest, being in a mattress by your self,” she shared on Jesse Watters Primetime. “Rolling over making an attempt to [get a] goodnight kiss that’s not there.”
On the time, Erika stated she was looking for consolation by studying one in all C. S. Lewis’ books (presumably titled A Grief Noticed) “as a result of he misplaced the love of his life — he was solely married to [his wife] for 4 years.”
How Erika Kirk Talks to Her Kids About Charlie Kirk’s Demise
Though Erika initially informed her two youngsters that their dad was on a “work journey with Jesus,” she has been in a position to have extra sincere conversations together with her oldest little one.
“Sure, my daughter continues to ask, nevertheless it’s actually candy as a result of I maintain explaining to her a couple of issues. I stated, ‘If ever you need to discuss to Daddy, you simply look as much as the sky and begin speaking to him — he can hear you,’” she informed Fox Information. “I informed her, ‘Daddy is in heaven.’ She goes, ‘You assume I may go someday?’ I stated, ‘Child, we are going to all go someday.’”
Erika Kirk Recollects Seeing Charlie Kirk After He Was Shot
Charlie and Erika Kirk Courtesy of Charlie Kirk/Instagram
Regardless of regulation enforcement advising Erika to not see her husband in a Utah hospital after he was shot, she was adamant.
“The room acquired quiet as a result of half the room knew it’s in all probability a good suggestion, and the opposite half of the room was like, ‘There is no such thing as a means she’s listening to you proper now.’ And I responded again to him, and I stated, ‘With all due respect, sir, I need to see what they did to my husband, and I need to give him a kiss, as a result of I didn’t get to present him a kiss this morning,’” she stated on Fox Information. “And I stated the identical factor to the physician.”
The physician finally allowed Erika to see her husband. (She has not, nevertheless, seen movies of the particular taking pictures.)
“He was nonetheless heat and his eyes had been barely open. He had this smirk on his face,” she stated. “It meant three issues to me. First, that he died doing what he beloved. Second was that he was at peace. [Third], I gave him a kiss.”
Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, had an emotional dialog with Megyn Kelly in the course of the ultimate cease on the media character’s podcast tour. Erika sat down with Kelly in Arizona on November 22, 2025, to debate how she and her household are holding up a couple of month after Charlie’s September 10, 2025, assassination, amongst different […]
How Erika Kirk Feels About Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Shooter
Whereas delivering a eulogy in honor of her husband in September 2025, Erika publicly forgave the person allegedly accountable for her husband’s dying.
“I forgive him as a result of it’s what Christ did,” Erika stated in the course of the public memorial held on the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. “The reply to hate isn’t hate.”
Erika Kirk Prayed She Was Pregnant After Charlie Kirk’s Demise
Practically two months after Charlie’s dying, Erika revealed that she hoped the pair could be rising their household when he was fatally shot earlier this yr.
“We needed to have 4 [children],” Erika stated throughout a November 2025 interview with Megyn Kelly. “And I used to be praying to God that I used to be pregnant when he acquired murdered. … Each of us had been, we had been actually excited to only increase our household.”
After Charlie’s dying, Erika stated she tries to inform younger {couples} to not wait if they’re severe about increasing their household.
“I inform them, ‘Please, don’t put it off.’ Particularly should you’re a younger girl, don’t put it off,” she stated. “You possibly can all the time have a profession, you possibly can all the time return to work. You possibly can by no means simply return to having kids.”
Late conservative commentator Charlie Kirk knew that he and spouse Erika Kirk (née Frantzve) had been meant to be from their first dialog. Erika revealed in a 2023 Instagram put up that the couple met in 2018 for what was imagined to be a job interview. Nevertheless, after chatting about their shared beliefs, Charlie informed the girl […]
Erika Kirk on JD Vance’s Assist After Charlie Kirk’s Demise
Erika needed to deal with any chatter surrounding her hug with Vice President JD Vance at her husband’s funeral.
“My love language is contact, if you’ll,” Erika defined throughout a November 2025 look on Megyn Kelly Stay. “I provides you with a play-by-play: They simply performed the emotional video. I’m strolling over, [JD] is strolling over. I’m beginning to cry. He says, ‘I’m so pleased with you.’ And I say, ‘God bless you,’ and I contact the again of his head. Anybody whom I’ve hugged, that I’ve touched the again of your head after I hug you, I all the time say, ‘God bless you.’”
