Erika Kirk, the widow of the slain 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie Kirk, appeared on the Fox News special “Erika Kirk: In Her Own Words” on Wednesday.

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Mrs. Kirk, who forgave her husband’s killer at his memorial service on Sept. 21, pointed to her Christian faith multiple times during her interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters. She touched on the controversy that surrounded late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel’s false statement that Kirk’s killer was part of the “MAGA gang” and detailed what she tells her children about their father’s absence. She also cited a C.S. Lewis book that she has turned to in her time of grief.

Here are five highlights from the exchange.

1. Kirk insists that she is ‘not angry with God’ following her husband’s assassination

Kirk discussed how she has adjusted to life without her husband, as nearly two months have passed since he was fatally shot at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.

“It’s so easy to be in a position of feeling regret when you lose someone you love,” she said. “I tried to read a book by C.S. Lewis because he lost the love of his life, he was only married to her for four years.”

Noting how the book is called A Grief Observed, Kirk described the book as “a very hard book to read” because “in the opening pages, he talked about how angry he was with God.” Kirk insisted, “I’ve never felt that.”

“I’m not angry with God, never have been,” an emotional Kirk declared. “Never have I questioned, ‘Why, Lord are you putting me through this, why are you testing me?'”

Kirk expressed confidence that “God is so good and so sovereign and I know He uses everything, everything, even what the enemy meant for evil.”

2. Kirk opposed forcing Kimmel to apologize: ‘That’s between you and the Lord’

Kirk weighed in on the controversy surrounding late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s suggestion that Kirk’s killer, who espoused liberal political views, was part of the “MAGA gang,” referring to supporters of President Donald Trump.

Kimmel’s assertions that conservatives were “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them” and that “MAGAland” was “working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk” led to the comedian’s brief suspension from his ABC program “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Watters asked Kirk if she had a “message” for Kimmel, who apologized on air for his remarks after his suspension concluded but faced allegations that his apology was insincere.

Kirk detailed how Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns multiple ABC affiliates across the country, asked her if she wanted an apology or to appear on his show. She recalled how she responded by saying: “You do what you think is best and right, and I prayerfully wish you the best, but I will never ask someone to give me an apology that they don’t genuinely mean.”

“That’s between you and the Lord,” she added. “If you want to say I’m sorry to someone who’s grieving, go right ahead but if that’s not in your heart, don’t do it. I don’t want it. I don’t need it.”

3. Kirk discusses how she met her husband, his transformation after they got married

The widow told the story about how she first met her husband when she applied for a job at his advocacy organization, Turning Point USA. The interview, which transformed into a much longer conversation about life and philosophy, finished with the late activist telling his future wife that he did not want to hire her, but rather that he wanted to date her.

“I literally had to walk home to process everything that just happened because again, the Lord knew that I needed a man that was going to be so assertive, not play games, not say ‘yeah, let’s just be friends and see how it goes,'” she added. “I, prior to that, was praying that … if he was to be my future husband, that the Lord would make it so clear that I would have such a peace about it.”

Kirk also elaborated on her husband’s transformation after they got married and he became a father.

“When you become a parent, it changes you. When you become a husband or a wife, it changes you,” she maintained. “Being on the altar and making a covenant with the Lord and saying ‘This is my person,’ it changes you. You become one. Everything becomes one. Nothing is separated.”

Kirk agreed with Watters’ assessment that her late husband “became more tranquil as he grew older.” She described the personality change as “a huge testament to his faith because he realized more and more, this is not about Charlie Kirk.”

4. Kirk tells her children their father is ‘on a work trip with Jesus’

The interview touched upon how Kirk informed her children of their father’s death by telling them how he was “going on a work trip with Jesus.”

When her daughter asked where he was, Kirk said she replied, “Daddy’s still with Jesus,” assuring her, “If ever you want to talk to daddy, you just look up to the sky and start talking to him,” and that “He can hear you.”

Noting how she has told her daughter “Daddy is in Heaven,” Kirk said her daughter asked, “Does that mean he’s in a different house?” She answered in the affirmative: “Yes, baby. He is building a house for us, some people would say a mansion.”

This prompted Kirk’s daughter to ask if she could “go sometime,” which led her to reply, “We will all go one day.”

The interview also included footage of Kirk giving Watters a tour of Turning Point USA’s headquarters, which features a section filled with gifts that supporters of Kirk have sent to the family following his assassination. Kirk tells her children that their father is “orchestrating with his friends to send them little presents so that they never forget that daddy’s watching over them.”

5. Kirk explains the decision to forgive her husband’s killer

Kirk spoke about her decision to forgive her husband’s killer, Tyler Robinson. “A lot of people in this world think that forgiveness is a weakness or that when you forgive, you forget and it’s the exact opposite,” she explained.

“The enemy stole my husband, and if I didn’t forgive, it’s more so for me than this man, because the enemy would have my heart. And I knew that every day, the Lord forgives me for things,” she contended. “It’s not easy. It never is easy, but it’s freeing, it’s so freeing.”

Kirk characterized forgiveness as “a way for me to be able to say ‘You’ll never get me, You’ll never get me.'”

When Watters inquired as to whether her husband would have forgiven his killer, Kirk responded, “He’s in Heaven and he sees everything full picture.”

She stressed, “If the Lord gave him an option to return back to Earth and if the Lord said, ‘This is what your death is going to be the catalyst for, do you want to go back and exchange it,’ he’d say ‘No.'”

In response to a question about whether Robinson should get the death penalty, Kirk proclaimed, “I do not want this man’s blood on my ledger when I stand before the Lord.” She indicated that she wanted “the government to decide” Robinson’s fate, adding, “It’s biblical too.”

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