President Donald Trump’s influencer Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, has opened up about the heartbreaking moment she saw her husband’s body after the conservative activist was assassinated — and shared a secret she had never told him during his lifetime.
“His 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,” Erika said in an emotional interview.
She explained that a sheriff had advised her not to view his body because of the damage caused by the bullet. But she insisted: “With all due respect, I want to see what they did to my husband.”
At the hospital, she was finally able to kiss him goodbye — something she hadn’t done earlier that morning before he left for what turned out to be his final speaking engagement at Utah Valley University.
During the massive memorial service at State Farm Stadium in Arizona, Erika revealed a lighthearted “secret” she had kept from Charlie: a single gray hair on the side of his head. “Now he knows. Sorry, baby, I’m telling you now,” she said with a bittersweet smile.
She also recalled noticing the faint smile on Charlie’s lips, which she believes was a sign of mercy from God. “It told me Charlie didn’t suffer. Even the doctor said it was instant. One moment he was doing what he loved … the next, he blinked and saw his savior in paradise.”
Erika, now serving as the chairwoman of Turning Point USA — the organization her husband founded — said that although Charlie’s death came too soon, he was spiritually prepared.
Through tears, she added that she forgives the man who killed him: “He wanted to save young men. Just like the one who took his life. I forgive him because it was what Christ did. And what Charlie would do.”
