The late Charlie Kirk’s wife, Erika Kirk, is addressing criticism over the way she has publicly grieved her husband’s untimely death.
“…there is no linear blueprint for grief. One day you’re collapsed on the floor crying out the name Jesus in between labored breaths,” Erika, 36, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, October 11. “The next you’re playing with your children in the living rooms surrounded by family photos, and feeling a rush of something you can only attempt to define as divinely planted and bittersweet joy as a smile breaks through your face.”
She continued, “They say time heals. But love doesn’t ask to be healed. Love asks to be remembered. It’s humbling to realize that this magnitude of suffering didn’t steal my love for my husband. It amplified it. It crystallized it.”
The widow, who shared two young children with the late Turning Point USA co-founder, went on to write that she carries her husband “in every breath, in every ache, and in every quiet act of day to day living as I attempt to relearn what that rhythm will be.”
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“And what I’ve realized through these past 30 days is the greater the suffering, the purer the love,” she concluded. “And I have never loved him more than I do now.”
The moving post was accompanied by a montage of videos featuring the late far-right influencer, as well as snippets of his massive memorial held on September 21 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The memorial, which was reportedly attended by as many as 90,000 people, featured appearances by Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump, and in addition to many other prominent Trump cabinet members.
Charlie was shot and killed on September 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He was 31.
“It’s with a heavy heart that we, the Turning Point USA leadership team, write to notify you that early this afternoon, Charlie went to his eternal reward with Jesus Christ in heaven,” a statement from Turning Point USA read at the time, confirming the political activist’s death.
After a 33-hour manhunt, a 22-year-old suspect turned himself into authorities at the behest of his parents, was subsequently arrested and charged for allegedly murdering Charlie. He is currently being held without bail in a Utah jail. If convicted, the 22-year-old faces the death penalty.
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Days later, Erika eulogized her husband in front of thousands during his public memorial. While she famously forgave her husband’s alleged killer on stage, she also drew plenty of online criticism for coming on the stage to an arguably over-the-top pyrotechnics display, with some equating the moment to a WWE wrestling match.
She has also been criticized for her decision to take over her husband’s non-profit organization, Turning Point USA, and appear on his podcast, The Charlie Kirk Show, claiming that the widow somehow does not appear distraught “enough” in public. Others have staunchly supported the widow, pointing out that grief manifests differently in everyone.
“I’m allowing myself to feel this so deeply,” Erika told The New York Times of her husband’s death, “without medication, without alcohol. The Lord is giving me discernment.”
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