Erika Kirk Saw a Smirk on Charlie's Face After He Was Assassinated. Here's What She Says It Means.

Erika Kirk will be giving her first television interview on Wednesday evening, and heartbreaking clips of her sitdown with Fox News's Jesse Watters are beginning to drop on social media. These clips are equal parts heartwrenching and inspiring, but the courage of Charlie Kirk's widow shines through as she shares her approach to living through the dark days since her husband was assassinated in front of the entire world.

In telling her story to Watters, Erika shares some intimate details of the moments she spent with her husband's body after he was declared dead in an Utah hospital that terrible day. She was not there with him on the campus of Utah Valley University on September 10 – she was at home in Arizona with their children – but Turning Point USA staff got her to the hospital as quickly as they could.

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Charlie was already gone by the time Erika got there, but she rushed, nonetheless, to be at his side. Despite being warned of the gruesome injuries her husband had sustained, she told authorities, "I want to see what they did to my husband."

Erika told Watters that one of the things she noticed was a smirk on her husband's face. If you've ever watched one of Charlie's campus debates, you know the smirk she's talking about – it tended to show up at the moment when he understood the point his opponent was trying to make and knew how easily he'd debunk it.

His wife knew exactly what that smirk that day meant: "You got my body, you didn't get my soul."

"He had this smirk on his face. That smirk. That smirk to me is that look of 'you thought you could stop what I've built. You thought that you could end this vision, this movement, this revival, you thought you could do that by murdering me. You got my body, you didn't get my soul,'" Kirk told Fox News' Jesse Watters nearly two months after her husband was assassinated.

Erika previously shared details of what she saw that day, telling the New York Times, "[Charlie's] eyes were semi-open and he had this knowing, Mona Lisa-like half-smile. Like he’d died happy. Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven."

Charlie's widow also shared how her children were dealing with the loss of their father. When her four-year-old daughter asks where he is, Erika tells her, "If you ever want to talk to daddy. You just look up to the sky and start to him. He can hear you. It's always good."

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“I told her, I said, you know, daddy, daddy is in HEAVEN.”

“If you ever want to talk to daddy. You just look up to the sky and start to him. He can hear you. It's always good”

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— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) November 5, 2025

"You told your children that Charlie was going on a work trip with Jesus. Are they still asking 'where's daddy'?" Watters asked Kirk.
"Yes, my daughter continues to ask, but it's really sweet, because I keep explaining to her a few things," Kirk told Watters. "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. It's always good. And I told her, I said, you know, 'Daddy, daddy is in heaven.' She goes, 'Do you think I could go sometime?' I said, 'Baby, we will all go one day. We will all go one day.'"

The full interview with Erika Kirk will air Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. ET on Fox News's "Jesse Watters Primetime."