“And so Mikey called me, and I’ll never forget him just being like, ‘Charlie’s been shot. He’s been shot, get the kids. Get security, get the kids, he’s been shot.’ I sprinted out of her treatment center, just collapsed in the middle of the parking lot, called our security. Unbelievable nightmare,” Kirk recalled.
Erika said she rushed to the hospital in disbelief, clinging to hope that somehow the reports were wrong. But when she arrived, her worst fears were confirmed — Charlie Kirk had been pronounced dead upon arrival.
“I never saw the video, I never will see it,” she told Fox News. “I never want to see it, there are certain things you see in your life that you can never unsee. There are certain things you see in your life that mark your soul forever. I don’t want my husband’s public assassination to be something I ever see. I don’t want my kids to ever see that.”
At the hospital, she said law enforcement officials tried to prepare her for what she might see. One veteran officer, trying to console her, suggested that she wait before viewing her husband’s body.
“We get into the room. One of the law enforcement guys comes in. He’s very sweet, but what do you say to someone whose husband just was assassinated so publicly? He said, you know, I’ve been doing this for 30-some years. He said, I will never tell you that you cannot see your husband. He said, but I, in my professional opinion, think that you should wait to see him once he’s at the mortuary, because I don’t think you want to see him like this,” Kirk recalled.
The room fell silent, she said, but her resolve was firm.
“And I responded back to him and I said, ‘with all due respect, sir,’ I said, ‘I want to see what they did to my husband. And I want to give him a kiss, because I didn’t get to give him a kiss this morning.’ And I said the same thing to the doctor. When the doctor came in, I said, ‘I want to see my husband.’”
Later in the interview, Erika addressed the issue of transparency in the upcoming murder trial of her husband’s alleged killer, 21-year-old Tyler Robinson. Prosecutors say Robinson admitted to assassinating Charlie Kirk because of his so-called “hateful” views on transgenderism. Robinson, who identified as gay, was reportedly living with a male partner who identified as transgender at the time of the murder.
“We deserve to have cameras in there. Why not be transparent?” Erika said firmly.
She argued that the nation deserves to see the truth play out publicly.
“There’s nothing to hide. I know there’s not because I’ve seen what the case is built on. Let everyone see what true evil is. This is something that could impact a generation and generations to come.”
The senseless killing of Charlie Kirk has sent shockwaves through conservative circles and across the nation. As his widow bravely confronts her grief, she’s calling for justice — and for America to see, without censorship, the evil that took her husband’s life.
