Erica Kirk reveals that she learned that her late husband, Charlie Kirk, had been shot through a desperate call from his assistant, Michael McCoy.
Speaking to the New York Times for her first interview since her husband’s death, Erica said McCoy called her and yelled, “He was shot!”
She quickly jumped onto the plane and rushed to her husband’s side. However, while she was still in the air, she was told he had died.
“I’m looking at the clouds and the mountains,” she recalled. “It was a very gorgeous day and I was thinking, this is exactly what he saw last time.”
Erica chose to see her husband’s body when she arrives at the hospital, despite not advising her because the bullet “destroys” her neck.
“I want to see the respect and see what they did to my husband,” she told the sheriff.
The mother of two shared that Charlie’s eyes were still half open.
“And he knew this, half smiles like Mona Lisa,” Erica told the outlet. “May he was happy. Just as Jesus saved him. A bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven.”
The former Miss Arizona was to be with Charlie at a Utah Valley University stop during an American comeback tour where she was fatally shot in the neck, but stayed behind to help her mother, who was being treated at Phoenix Hospital.
Erica noted that she still can’t go to her and Charlie’s bedroom and is “spinning” where she sleeps.
More than 200,000 mourners gathered for Charlie’s funeral in Arizona Sunday, including President Trump, Vice President Vance and Elon Musk.
The conservative commentator passed away on September 10th after being shot dead on the Utah Valley University stage. He was 31 years old.
Erica, who was appointed CEO of Turning Point USA after her husband’s death, attracted supporters on a YouTube live stream on September 12th.
“The bad guys who are responsible for the assassination of my husband don’t know what they did,” she said.
“They should all know this. If you thought my husband’s mission was previously powerful, you don’t know that you’ve unleashed in this country,” Erica continued, adding, “This widow’s cry echoes all over the world like a cry of battle.”
