Erika Kirk relives Charlie’s final moments, calls his death a ‘horror movie’

Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, revealed she had by no means seen video of her husband’s homicide as she opened up about how she dealt along with his dying in a uncooked, emotional interview with Fox Information host Jesse Watters.

“I by no means noticed the video, I by no means will see it,” she advised Fox Information. “I by no means wish to see it. There are specific belongings you see in your life you could by no means see once more. There are specific belongings you see in your life that mark your soul ceaselessly. I do not need the general public homicide of my husband to be one thing that I’ll ever see. I do not need my youngsters to ever see that.”

The evening earlier than Charlie was murdered, Erika and her daughter slept within the couple’s mattress. Charlie slept of their daughter’s bed room. She claimed she wished him to get a “good evening’s sleep” earlier than talking the subsequent day.

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Charlie Kirk, his spouse Erika and their two youngsters at Christmas in December 2024. (Charlie Kirk by way of Fb)

“That evening, him [Charlie] was so excited. I imply, he mentioned, ‘I can not wait, that is going to be the very best,'” Erika Kirk mentioned.

The subsequent morning could be her final moments with Charlie.

“He got here in and took that [wedding ring and necklace] after which he left. I did not even get to kiss him goodbye,” she mentioned on “Erika Kirk: In Her Personal Phrases,” a particular version of “Jesse Watters Primetime.”

Kirk stayed in Arizona that day to look after her mom, who reportedly had a medical drawback.

“[Charlie] It was one thing like: dwelling wants you. House wants you, be dwelling. Come be part of me on Thursday for the subsequent occasion we’ve,” she defined.

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On the physician’s workplace, she and her mom watched a video of Charlie throwing hats into the group at Utah Valley College. A short while later she obtained a cellphone name.

Turning Level USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a school occasion in Utah. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune by way of Reuters)

“Mikey [McCoy] known as me,” she mentioned. ‘I am going to always remember it, he simply mentioned: Charlie’s been shot. He is been shot, get the children. Get safety, get the children, get the children, he is been shot. I sprinted out of her therapy middle and collapsed in the midst of the parking zone.”

Charlie was fatally shot within the neck by a single bullet from a bolt-action rifle simply after midday native time.

From that second on, Erika mentioned she discovered herself in an “unimaginable nightmare.”

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Charlie Kirk speaks earlier than he’s killed throughout Turning Level’s go to to Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah, Wednesday, September 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret Information by way of AP)

“The best way the bullet hit him, he died instantly,” Kirk defined. “He died on the spot. However I am so glad he did not endure, I am so glad he did not endure. Nobody deserves to endure, apart from a handful of individuals. He actually blinked and possibly thought he was being raptured and regarded round and thought, the place are everybody else? He blinked and he was with the Lord.”

The 36-year-old mentioned she expressed her security issues to Charlie, who was generally concerned in heated debates on college campuses, however was confronted by his fearlessness.

“I all the time mentioned, Charlie, have you ever ever considered carrying a vest?” she revealed. “He nodded at that and mentioned, you realize, I checked out it, however he all the time mentioned, ‘If they are going to get me, they are going to get me.’ He wasn’t afraid. It would not have made any distinction if you happen to had been carrying a vest.”

Charlie Kirk debates with college students from The Cambridge Union on Might 19, 2025 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. (Nordin Catic/Getty Photos for The Cambridge Union)

Upon arriving in Utah, Kirk wished to see her late husband immediately, however mentioned a police officer suggested her to attend on the mortuary given the situation he was in.

She refused to attend.

“I responded to him and mentioned, with all due respect, sir, I wish to see what they did to my husband and I wish to give him a kiss as a result of I could not give him a kiss this morning,” she defined.

Erika considered her husband’s lifeless physique in a hospital room, which she mentioned regarded “so alive.”

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Erika Kirk cries over her late husband Charlie’s casket. Charlie Kirk, CEO of Turning Level USA, was murdered on September 10, 2025 throughout an occasion at Utah Valley College. (@MrsErikaKirk/Instagram)

“I am simply so glad I noticed him as a result of…once you see somebody within the morgue, they by no means look the identical,” Kirk mirrored. “They’ve horrible make-up and so they’re chilly. He was nonetheless heat and his eyes had been barely open. It was so highly effective, Jesse. He had a smile on his face.”

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The ultimate picture, she mentioned, has come to embody Charlie’s immortal spirit and mission.

“To me, that grin is that look of: You thought you possibly can cease what I constructed,” she mirrored. “This imaginative and prescient, this motion, this revival, you thought you possibly can do it by killing me. You have got my physique. You did not get my soul.’

Erika Kirk will obtain the first-ever Charlie Kirk Legacy Award throughout the seventh annual version Fox Nation Patriot Awards Thursday in New York.