Charlie Kirk’s wife, Erika Kirk, is recalling what she told their 3-year-old daughter after his death.
“When I got home last night Gigi, our daughter, just ran into my arms and I talked to her and she said, ‘Mommy i miss you’ and I said I miss you too baby and she goes, ‘Where’s daddy?’ How do you tell a 3 year old? She’s 3,” Erika, 36, said in a live stream via Charlie’s X account on Friday, September 12.
“And I said, ‘Daddy loves you so much baby he’s on a work trip with Jesus so he can afford your blueberry budget,’” she continued.
Erika broke her silence Friday, two days after Kirk was shot during a speaking event for his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. His right-wing nonprofit, Turning Point USA, later confirmed that Charlie had died at the age of 31.
The former Miss Arizona USA said that Charlie, whom she married in 2021, loved his family and being a husband and father to Gigi and their 1-year-old son.
“Most of all Charlie loved his children and he loved me with all of his heart and I knew that everyday. He made sure I knew that everyday,” she continued. “Everyday he would ask me, ‘How can I serve you better? How can I be a better husband? How can I be a better father?’”
Erika said, “I know my husband is still here. He’s watching over us. I don’t remember the last time I slept. I couldn’t sleep last night.”
“Charlie baby, Charlie I promise I will never let your legacy die baby I won’t,” she continued. “Oh, Charlie I love you. I love you baby. Rest in the arms of our lord as he blankets you with the words I know your heart always strives to hear. Well done my good and faithful servant.”
On Wednesday, September 10, a gunman fired a single shot that appeared to strike Charlie in the neck as he sat under a tent emblazoned with the words, “Prove Me Wrong.”
Law enforcement announced on Friday that the suspected shooter, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who is from Utah and not affiliated with any political party, was taken into custody. The same day that Kirk was murdered, a school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado critically injured two high school students.
During his career as a highly successful conservative commentator, Kirk championed gun rights and the Second Amendment, saying at a Turning Point USA event in 2023, “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”