Erika Kirk shares message to Jimmy Kimmel in exclusive Fox News interview

Erika Kirk says she does not want Jimmy Kimmel’s apology following the comic’s feedback about her late husband, Turning Level USA founder Charlie Kirk, who informed Fox Information’ Jesse Watters that an apology ought to come from the guts reasonably than obligation.

“[Sinclair Broadcasting] requested, “Would you like Jimmy to apologize?” Do you need to be at a present? How can we make it proper?” Kirk mentioned within the interview, which is able to air in full on Fox Information Channel on Wednesday evening.

“By our crew, I replied, ‘Thank them, we obtained their notice. This isn’t our problem, not our mess…’

“If you wish to say I am sorry to somebody who’s grieving, go forward. But when that is not in your coronary heart, then do not do it. I do not need it. I do not want it.”

JD VANCE SAYS HE WOULD ‘LIKE’ JIMMY KIMMEL TO APOLOGIZE TO ERIKA KIRK AFTER RETURN FROM RECENT SUSPENSION

Erika Kirk discusses Jimmy Kimmel with Fox Information’ Jesse Watters on the set of ‘The Charlie Kirk Present’ for an interview airing Wednesday, November 5 on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime’. (Jesse Watters Primetime; Earl Gibson III/Deadline by way of Getty Photographs)

In his September 15 opening monologue, Kimmel insinuated that Kirk’s alleged killer was a member of the “MAGA gang” whereas mocking President Donald Trump’s response to his demise.

“We hit some new lows this weekend because the MAGA gang desperately tried to characterize this child who killed Charlie Kirk as something aside from one in every of their very own and did every little thing they may to attain political factors,” he mentioned.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, which produces “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” on stations affiliated with ABC, demanded that the comic apologizes on to the Kirk household and makes a donation of their title.

TURNING POINT US REJECTS JIMMY KIMMEL’S TEARY APOLOGY ON CHARLIE KIRK’S DEATH COMMENTS

A picture of slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk might be positioned in his honor on a memorial at Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)

On the time, the group issued a public assertion saying it “objected.”[ed] to current feedback by Mr. Kimmel concerning the homicide of Charlie Kirk.”

ABC later briefly suspended Kimmel’s present because of mounting backlash.

After Kimmel returned, he insisted that his phrases had been “maliciously mischaracterized” and that he by no means supposed to make mild of Kirk’s homicide.

JIMMY KIMMEL PRAISES ERIKA KIRK FOR FORGIVEING HUSBAND’S ALLEGED KILLER, CALLING IT ‘SELLFLESS ACT OF MERCY’

Erika Kirk sits reverse Primetime host Jesse Watters on the set of The Charlie Kirk Present for an interview airing Wednesday, November 5. (Jesse Watters Primetime)

“I’ve no illusions that I can change anybody’s thoughts, however I do need to make one thing clear as a result of it is very important me as a human being and which means: you perceive that it was by no means my intention to make mild of the homicide of a younger man.” he said in his recurring monologue.

“I do not assume there’s something humorous about it.”

Kimmel added that he was not attempting responsible any particular group for what occurred to Kirk.

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Erika Kirk, who has since assumed her late husband’s position as CEO of Turning Level USA, will obtain the first-ever Charlie Kirk Legacy Award on Thursday on the seventh annual Fox Nation Patriot Awards on the Tilles Middle for the Performing Arts in Brookville, New York.

Watch the total interview with Erika Kirk Wednesdays at 8pm ET on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”

Fox Information’ Alexander Corridor, Lindsay Kornick and The Related Press contributed to this report.