Conservative political commentator Candace Owens is questioning the authenticity of her late friend Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk’s (née Frantzve) birth date.
“I’ll inform you my personal opinion and experience together with her,” Owens, 36, said within the Wednesday, February 25, episode of her documentary series Bride Of Charlie. “What alarms me about Erika isn’t a lot the incontrovertible fact that she lies, which we are going to prove to you over and another time, but it surely’s also the incontrovertible fact that I don’t know that she’s aware that she’s lying.”
Owens suggested that “the version [Erika is] telling us today or yesterday was only in the near past downloaded into her mind and he or she subsequently thinks it’s true.”
“[It’s] like a faulty memory or something,” Owens argued. “I’m saying I’m undecided that she’s fully aware that she’s lying because a number of the lies are so silly.”
The documentary series digs into Erika’s childhood, including a possible discrepancy over her birthday. Owens points out alleged inconsistencies in Erika’s family tree, sharing a“conspiracy theory” that Erika’s aunt, Karla, may very well be her biological mother. (Erika, 37, has all the time maintained that her biological parents are Kent and Lori Frantzve.)
Owens takes issue with Erika saying that she was born on November 20, 1988, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The commentator showed alleged excerpts from Kent and Lori’s 1998 divorce filings, where 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 only has “4 statements of fact,” or little or no personal information.)
Owens also 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 agreement enclosed with the divorce petition offers a very different marriage date of November 7, 1982.
Owens moreover disputes Erika’s past comments that she was raised mostly by a single mother after her parents’ divorce in 1998, alleging there may be contradictory information suggesting Kent was still actively involved in her life on the time.
“I even have spoken to classmates, past boyfriends, and individuals are generally bewildered about why Erika is now representing that she doesn’t have a relationship with Kent,” Owens claimed. “Also, if we remove Kent, Erika was raised together with her stepfather [Larry] in her home.”
Candace Owens; Erika Kirk Getty Images (2); Joe Raedle; Dimitrios Kambouris
Us Weekly has reached out to representatives for Erika and Turning Point USA for comment.
Owens, a former Turning Point USA communications director, has grown increasingly critical of Erika since Charlie was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on September 10, 2025. (A 22-year-old male was arrested in reference to the shooting on September 11, 2025, but has yet to enter a plea.)
In January, Owens leaked alleged audio of Erika, reportedly recorded during a Turning Point USA conference call lower than two weeks after Charlie’s death. Within the audio, Erika described her late husband’s public memorial as “an event of a century” and said that the organization was “at, like, over 200,000 for merch sale.”
“That’s moving pretty quickly to the acceptance phase now,” Owens told her viewers. “We all know everybody grieves in another way. In my imagination, I just thought she can be more upset.”
Savannah Chrisley says she was meant to hitch political commentator Charlie Kirk on his college campus speaking tour in October amid his death. The Turning Point USA founder was fatally shot Wednesday, September 10, during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He was 31. Wednesday’s event was the primary stop on […]
Meanwhile, 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 Point USA founder in honor of her thirty seventh birthday on February 20.
“I all the time loved celebrating you, and perhaps since it was a mirrored image of how beautifully you usually celebrated me. I romanticized growing old with you, the love of my life,” she shared via Instagram. “I used to wonder what our faces would seem like with wisdom-wrinkles. You’d all the time tell me the way you hoped I’d keep my long hair even after we were each gray and in addition that l’a all the time wear white (since it was the colour you really liked me wearing probably the most).”
The activist went on, “We’d laugh about the way you’d probably still be out on college campuses in your 80s, doing ‘Prove Me Unsuitable’ campus events because you really liked those students. After which we’d each begin to tear up when talking about our babies growing older and having a family of their very own. A full life.”
Erika Kirk in October 2025. Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images
“Today, I find myself, not directly, still romanticizing growing old with you, just in several locations,” Erika continued. “In order I blow out candles this 12 months with an ache so deep I pray nobody ever has to feel it, I’m reminded that every day, each moment, each birthday…you’re with me. Not in the way in which I once dreamed, but in the way in which God has mercifully allowed.”
Charlie also left behind his and Erika’s two children, a son and daughter, whose names they selected to maintain private.