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Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, said she was "praying to God" that she was pregnant when her husband was assassinated in September.
“We wanted to have four,” Kirk said during an interview on the Megyn Kelly Show set to air on Monday (November 24). “And I was praying to God that I was pregnant when he got murdered.”
“I was like, ‘Oh, goodness, that was going to be the ultimate blessing out of this catastrophe,'” she added.
Erika, who shares a young daughter and son with the late political pundit, said they were planning to add to their family prior to his murder on September 10.
“So, now when I see young couples, I tell them, ‘Please, don’t put it off.’ Especially if you’re a young woman. Don’t put it off, you can always have a career, you can always, you know, go back to work. You can never just go back to having children. And they grow so fast and so quickly,” she said. “I just, I was praying. Both of us were.”
Erika, 37, took over as the CEO of Turning Point USA, the conservative think tank co-founded by her late husband and Bill Montgomery in the wake of his death in September.