Erika Kirk describes ‘unbelievable nightmare’ of her husband’s killing
Nov 7, 2025
Erika Kirk recounts the day her husband, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated in her first television interview since his death.
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Erica Kirk revealed that she's never viewed the video of her husband's fatal shooting in Utah
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In a television interview with Fox News' Jesse Waters, her first since her husband's death
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I never saw the video. I never will see it. I never want to see it
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There's 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
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I don't want my husband's public assassination to be something I ever see
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I don't want my kids to ever see that. Erica Kirk told Waters that the last time she saw Charlie alive was shortly before his speaking engagement
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She said that he was in such a hurry that she didn't get to kiss him goodbye
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She stayed in Arizona with her mother, who had a medical issue, And she was at her mom's doctor's appointment when she received a call from her husband's chief of staff at Turning Point USA
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And I never forget him just being like Charlie been shot He been shot Get the kids Get security Get the kids Get the kids He been shot I sprinted out of her treatment center and just collapsed in the middle of the parking lot
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I called her security. Yeah. Unbelievable nightmare. Erica says Charlie died instantaneously
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I'm so glad he didn't suffer. no one deserves to suffer but him of all people
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so he um he that's you know he literally blinked and probably thought he was raptured and looked
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around and was like where's everybody else he blinked and he was with the lord kirk says she
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asked a police officer and a doctor to see her husband's body after his death i said
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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
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