In the interview, Watters asked Erika: “Do you think that was a coincidence that your husband was answering a question about transgender violence when he was killed?”
Erika responded tersely: “I don’t believe in coincidences.”
Erika has filled one of the newer buildings on TPUSA’s compound with letters, notes, and fan art from around the nation. Well-wishers have also been sending stuffed animals for Erika and Charlie’s two young children, and Fox’s cameras were present as daughter Gigi, age 3, played with toys and books in the makeshift shrine to her father.
During a sit-down with Watters in the studio where Charlie recorded his radio show, Erika tried to share the side of her husband that the public didn’t know. She told Watters that her husband would put away his phone to focus on his family every Saturday. “He would open his junk drawer, put his phone in, and say, ‘Shabbat Shalom.’” He also loved to go to the gym, she said. Fox interviewed his personal trainer, who recounted how Charlie was happy to put in the work to increase his pull-up numbers.
Erika said that many TPUSA employees wanted to be at work on the days following Charlie’s death. To accommodate them, the organization opened its doors and invited therapy dogs and pastors to join them. She mentioned that the leadership transition has gone well. “There’s been no rivalry, no coup, no internal takeover, and it’s a testament to what Charlie built and how he hired,” she said.
Kirk told Watters that she hasn’t seen the video of her husband’s death and doesn’t plan to. She added that she has been reading A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis, but finds it hard to relate to because Lewis, a Christian author, focuses his anger on God. “I’m not angry with God; I never have been,” she said. “I have no regrets because I loved him so much, and I never let a day go by where he didn’t know that.”
