Conservative political commentator Candace Owens is questioning the authenticity of her late good friend Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk’s (née Frantzve) beginning date.
“I’ll let you know my private opinion and expertise along with her,” Owens, 36, stated within the Wednesday, February 25, episode of her documentary sequence Bride Of Charlie. “What alarms me about Erika isn’t a lot the truth that she lies, which we’ll show to you time and again, but it surely’s additionally the truth that I don’t know that she’s conscious that she’s mendacity.”
Owens urged that “the model [Erika is] telling us right this moment or yesterday was only recently downloaded into her thoughts and he or she subsequently thinks it’s true.”
“[It’s] like a defective reminiscence or one thing,” Owens argued. “I’m saying I’m unsure that she’s totally conscious that she’s mendacity as a result of a few of the lies are so silly.”
The documentary sequence digs into Erika’s childhood, together with a possible discrepancy over her birthday. Owens factors out alleged inconsistencies in Erika’s household tree, sharing a“conspiracy concept” that Erika’s aunt, Karla, may very well be her organic mom. (Erika, 37, has all the time maintained that her organic mother and father are Kent and Lori Frantzve.)
Owens takes difficulty with Erika saying that she was born on November 20, 1988, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The commentator confirmed alleged excerpts from Kent and Lori’s 1998 divorce filings, the place they allegedly state that their daughter was born on November 22 of the identical 12 months. (Owens clarifies that the divorce petition was filed by Lori and solely has “4 statements of truth,” or little or no private data.)
Owens additionally questioned Kent and Lori stating of their divorce petition that they wed on November 20, 1995, which might have been Erika’s seventh birthday. A separation settlement enclosed with the divorce petition provides a totally totally different marriage date of November 7, 1982.
Owens moreover disputes Erika’s previous feedback that she was raised largely by a single mom after her mother and father’ divorce in 1998, alleging there’s contradictory data suggesting Kent was nonetheless actively concerned in her life on the time.
“I’ve spoken to classmates, previous boyfriends, and individuals are typically bewildered about why Erika is now representing that she doesn’t have a relationship with Kent,” Owens claimed. “Additionally, if we take away Kent, Erika was raised along with her stepfather [Larry] in her residence.”
Candace Owens; Erika Kirk Getty Photographs (2); Joe Raedle; Dimitrios Kambouris
Us Weekly has reached out to representatives for Erika and Turning Level USA for remark.
Owens, a former Turning Level USA communications director, has grown more and more important of Erika since Charlie was fatally shot whereas talking at Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah, on September 10, 2025. (A 22-year-old male was arrested in reference to the capturing on September 11, 2025, however has but to enter a plea.)
In January, Owens leaked alleged audio of Erika, reportedly recorded throughout a Turning Level USA convention name lower than two weeks after Charlie’s dying. Within the audio, Erika described her late husband’s public memorial as “an occasion of a century” and stated that the group was “at, like, over 200,000 for merch sale.”
“That’s shifting fairly shortly to the acceptance section now,” Owens instructed her viewers. “We all know everyone grieves otherwise. In my creativeness, I simply thought she can be extra upset.”
Savannah Chrisley says she was meant to affix political commentator Charlie Kirk on his faculty campus talking tour in October amid his dying. The Turning Level USA founder was fatally shot Wednesday, September 10, throughout a talking engagement at Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah. He was 31. Wednesday’s occasion was the primary cease on […]
In the meantime, Erika — whose husband Charlie was honored by President Donald Trump in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, February 24 — paid tribute to the Turning Level USA founder in honor of her thirty seventh birthday on February 20.
“I all the time cherished celebrating you, and perhaps as a result of it was a mirrored image of how superbly you all the time celebrated me. I romanticized rising previous with you, the love of my life,” she shared by way of Instagram. “I used to surprise what our faces would appear like with wisdom-wrinkles. You’d all the time inform me the way you hoped I’d preserve my lengthy hair even after we have been each grey and likewise that l’a all the time put on white (as a result of it was the colour you liked me sporting probably the most).”
The activist went on, “We’d snigger about the way you’d most likely nonetheless be out on faculty campuses in your 80s, doing ‘Show Me Unsuitable’ campus occasions since you cherished these college students. After which we’d each begin to tear up when speaking about our infants rising older and having a household of their very own. A full life.”
Erika Kirk in October 2025. Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Photographs
“Immediately, I discover myself, ultimately, nonetheless romanticizing rising previous with you, simply in numerous places,” Erika continued. “In order I blow out candles this 12 months with an ache so deep I pray nobody ever has to really feel it, I’m reminded that every day, every second, every birthday…you’re with me. Not in the way in which I as soon as dreamed, however in the way in which God has mercifully allowed.”
Charlie additionally left behind his and Erika’s two youngsters, a son and daughter, whose names they selected to maintain non-public.
