During an emotional appearance on Fox News, Erika Kirk broke down in tears while discussing the heartbreaking reminders of her late husband’s death. At 37, she confessed that encountering his favorite hot sauce on the grocery store shelf unexpectedly triggers memories of his tragic assassination in Utah three months prior. Speaking on Fox & Friends to promote his last book, “Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life,” she expressed, “What really hits me hard is when I’m in the grocery store and I see his hot sauce and I want to buy it.”

Continuing her heartfelt account, Kirk shared how even the smallest details, like her husband’s clothing scattered around the house, evoke profound grief. “I know that people who have experienced loss totally understand what I’m saying,” she acknowledged. Reflecting on these moments three months after his passing, she described the emotional impact of the little things, particularly the memory of her husband, Charlie Kirk, returning home. “To the world he was Charlie Kirk, to us he was the love of my life, my children’s dad. It’s those little things, he would walk through the door, drop his things, daddy’s home,” she tearfully recounted, adding how he would routinely put his phone in the drawer upon arrival.

Charlie Kirk, a prominent youth leader in the United States, was tragically shot and killed at a Turning Point USA debate at the University of Orem in Utah on September 10. He was just 31 years old. Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old suspect, faces charges of aggravated murder. Following her husband’s untimely death, Erika Kirk has assumed the role of CEO at Turning Point. She noted that her husband completed his final book just a month before his assassination.

Host Ainsley Earhardt assured her after she began crying: ‘I cannot million what you are going through, you found the love of your life, the goal for all of us. He was taken so early.’ Kirk penned the foreword for her husband’s book as well, and a passage was flashed on-screen. ‘I knew Charlie so deeply, in a way no one else could. That is why I can say with certainty: these pages are not theory for him, they are testimony. The words you hold in your hand were the convictions he lived that were written on his heart,’ a portion read.

‘Looking back now, I see the book as one of Charlie’s most enduring gifts to the world. He did not know how brief his time on earth would be – none of us did.’ ‘But the truths written in the book are not bound by time on earth would be – none of us did – but the truths written in the book are not bound by time. They will outlive us all, as will the legacy of his faith,’ the foreword continued. Kirk continued to talk up the book’s ‘powerful’ contents when the passage was finished.

She then took the time to remember her husband as she lamented how, in her words, ‘Miscommunication is out of control.’ ‘He was so good at communicating and understanding and bridging that gap. ‘And for him, this book was one of those moments where, OK, if you have communication, mixing with people turning off the noise and the chatter and resetting and rehumanizing, putting those together, is a beautiful symphony of how this country can heal. ‘He knew that and wanted to share with everybody,’ Kirk insisted.

On Sean Hannity’s show the night before, Kirk insisted, ‘ You can be a non-observing citizen and use this book to change your life.’ At Charlie’s memorial service in September, Kirk said that she forgave Robinson ‘because it’s what Christ did.’ ‘The answer to hate is not hate.’ Charlie’s final book came out on Tuesday and is available nationwide.