Megyn Kelly Tells Piers Morgan Her ‘Prayer’ for Erika Kirk and Says Kirk Should Step Down from Turning Point

Megyn Kelly wants to see Erika Kirk step away from her role running Turning Point USA — because she wants the grieving mother of two to find time to heal.

Kelly shared her concern with Piers Morgan on the latter’s Piers Morgan Uncensored, as the two discussed the one year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination at a speaking event at Utah Valley University.

Morgan brought up a recent essay on grief Erika Kirk, 37, wrote last week for The New York Times:

PIERS MORGAN: And the reason I found it so powerful was it reminded us that there is a human being here, a wife and a mother who lost her husband, who she was obviously very in love with, the loving father of her kids and I think people have just treated her like some weird commodity for the last year.

Where they can say whatever they want about her. They can make any allegations about her. They can treat her as inhumanely as they like. And I’m just at a loss as to understand why? Why we have collectively, it seems, lost our humanity about this woman.

MEGYN KELLY: I mean, I come to this with a bias because I love Erika and uh I consider her a dear friend and I hate to see her suffer. I have, it’s been very painful to watch her suffer this year.

The overwhelming suffering has been caused by Charlie’s murder and not by the internet nonsense, but that’s been an added burden on her. There’s no question.

Um, and I, look, I don’t like it. I wish it weren’t happening. I wish people would move on and just see the evidence that’s there.

But I think part of the reason this is happening is because Erika stayed in the public eye as the CEO of Turning Point.

And therefore, in some ways, criticism of her is fair game.

You know, the stuff around did she kill Charlie? That’s all nonsense. To me that’s so crazy. I don’t even spend any time on it.

But like the criticisms of Erika’s behavior or how she is at this event or how she is at that event, that’s going to happen if you are at the head of a political organization.

And people who think that she’s not grieving correctly. Look, I, all I can say is they’re entitled to their opinions. I don’t share their opinions, but I can’t censor their opinions either.

The way Erika could avoid that is by not being the CEO of Turning Point.

And she and I have had many conversations about this together. I think she feels very strongly that she was the only one who could get the organization through at least the first year and she’s done that.

She miraculously and heroically she’s done that. And I don’t know.

I personally would like to see her take some personal time just so she can remove herself from the non-stop battering ram that is heading up a political organization in the United States of America and allow herself in year two to just work on healing, you know, helping her kids heal and herself heal. I don’t know what she’s going to do, but that’s my prayer for her.

In her essay for The Times, Erika Kirk wrote about the advice she got from Second Lady Usha Vance, who told her to just get through “the next 15 minutes.”

“The wave still comes, but it’s different now. A year ago, when I felt it coming over me, I wondered whether it would swallow me completely. Now, I recognize it; sometimes I even welcome it, because for a moment the grief makes Charlie feel impossibly close,” Erika Kirk wrote.

“If you are living through grief, I won’t tell you what to feel or that tomorrow will be better than today. I will tell you what a dear friend told me: Just get through the next 15 minutes.”

Watch the clip above.

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