In a rare interview, Charlie Kirk's mother pushed back on claims of a family rift with Erika Kirk, saying the loss of her son had brought the two women closer and that Charlie would be upset by the treatment of his wife online.
"We were 100% behind her," Kathryn Kirk September preliminary hearing.
"Don’t do it. Don’t you dare do it. It’s not too late," she recalled pleading silently as she watched the man on the screen, according to Vanity Fair’s account. She gripped Kathryn’s arm and cried out as the video showed Robinson taking position for the shot.
Erika also recalled insisting on seeing her husband’s body at the Utah hospital after a doctor advised against it.
"I looked back at him and said, ‘With all due respect, I want to see what they did to my husband. I didn’t get a kiss goodbye this morning. I just want to kiss my husband,’" she told Vanity Fair.
Hospital staff removed tubes from Charlie’s mouth, wrapped his neck and cleared away blood before she saw him, the outlet reported.
"I’ll never be able to put it into words," Erika said. "But Charlie had a smirk. It wasn’t sad."