The widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk recently commented on the controversial remarks regarding her husband’s assassination made by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, which got him temporarily booted from the screen.
Less than a week after Kirk was shot and killed in the beginning moments of his “Prove Me Wrong” debate at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, Kimmel used his platform to argue that Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, was connected to the “MAGA gang.”
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
The ABC-owned show was then suspended for a week after ABC affiliates Nexstar Media Group Inc. and Sinclair Broadcast Group refused to air it on their stations.
Upon his return, Kimmel gave an 18-minute monologue, but didn’t ever flat-out say “sorry” to Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, for his comments.
And she doesn’t want one.
In her first media interview since the death of her husband, Kirk told Fox News’ Jesse Watters that Sinclair Broadcast Group reached out to her asking if she would like to go on Kimmel’s show, where he would offer an apology.
The broadcasting group wanted to find a way “to make it right” after Kimmel’s comments, Kirk told Watters.
“I told them thank you, we received their note. This is not our issue. It’s not our mess,” she said. “If you wanna say I’m sorry to someone who’s grieving, go right ahead. But if that’s not in your heart, then don’t do it. I don’t want it. I don’t need it.”
She added that if he had asked directly, she would have told Kimmel the same thing.
The full interview with Kirk will air on Wednesday at 8 p.m. on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”