Erika Kirk Recalls Last Moments With Charlie Before His Assassination

‘I didn’t get to give him a kiss goodbye,’ Kirk said.

Erika Kirk reacts after President Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to her late husband, Charlie Kirk, in the Rose Garden of the White House on Oct. 14, 2025. Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo

Erika Kirk, the widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, described the last time she saw her husband before he was fatally shot during a college event in Utah on Sept. 10, and explained why she will never watch the video showing the moment he was killed.

In a Fox News interview with Jesse Watters, which aired on Nov. 5, she described her last hours with her husband at their home in Phoenix, Arizona, the night before he was due to speak at Utah Valley University in Orem.