The widow of slain conservative influencer Charlie Kirk shared the emotional gutpunch of how she has had to communicate his death to their two young children in a heart-wrenching interview. Erika Kirk spoke to Fox News’ Jesse Watters about Charlie’s ‘work trip with Jesus’ as the manner in which they will come to understand the permanent loss of their father.
For context, Charlie leaves behind a three-year-old daughter and one-and-half-year-old son. Kirk was assassinated on September 10th while conducting what should have been a routine speech and debate on a Utah college campus. His alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is presumed to be facing the death penalty after his trial commences.
Watters broached the difficult topic during a sit-down interview with the new CEO of Charlie’s legacy organization, Turning Point USA. “You told your children that Charlie was going on a work trip with Jesus. Are they still asking? Where’s Daddy?” the Fox host asked while sitting across from Erika in studio.
Looking emotionally vulnerable, the widowed wife remarked that despite two months having passed, the question still comes up often as their family acclimates to the sudden and shocking death. “Yes, my daughter continues to ask, but it’s really sweet because I keep explaining to her a few things, and I said, if ever you want to talk to Daddy, you just look up to the sky and start talking to him. He can hear you,” she explained to Watters.
“And I told her, I said, You know Daddy, daddy is in heaven. She goes, you think I could go sometime? I said, Baby, we will all go one day. We will all go one day,” Kirk added. Watch that incredibly somber exchange below:
While the escalation of political violence from what the Trump administration has repeatedly labeled as ‘left-wing terrorism” shook the country to its core on that fateful September day, Americans were perhaps more taken aback by the senseless loss of a good man, husband, and father. Charlie Kirk was not a politician; he was not an extremist. He was a humble servant of Christ who tried living his life as a disciple and engaging in good-faith dialogue with those who disagreed with him.
First Lady Melania Trump reacted on Facebook shortly after his murder and commented not on political violence, but on the loss of two young children’s father. “Charlie’s children will be raised with stories instead of memories, photographs instead of laughter, and silence where their father’s voice should have echoed,” the First Lady wrote on a Facebook post. “Charlie Kirk’s life should serve as a symbolic reminder that compassionate awareness elevates family, love, and country.”
Kirk’s comments about Charlie being on a work trip in Heaven with Watters were not the first time the conversations with her kids had come up. As The Christian Tribune reported just two days after the Utah slaying, she gave a moving 15-minute speech from the same studio in which her late husband recorded many podcast episodes.
“Erika Kirk, widow of the late Charlie Kirk, gave her first public remarks since her husband’s horrific assassination while speaking at a Utah college campus. She delivered the emotional address from Turning Point USA’s national headquarters in Phoenix while standing next to his empty podcasting chair,” the Tribune wrote.
“When I got home last night, Gigi, our daughter, just ran into our high arms, and I talked to her, and she said, Mommy, I missed you. I said, I miss you too, baby. She goes, Where’s Daddy? What do you tell a three year old? She’s three. I said, Baby Daddy loves you so much. Don’t you worry. He’s on a work trip with Jesus,” Kirk said during those remarks.
Watch those comments below: