The brutal, politically motivated assassination of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk sent a devastating shockwave across the nation, an act of violence that immediately became a stark symbol of America’s toxic and fragmented political life. Yet, as the raw details of the crime have unfolded, a profoundly disturbing, deeply personal, and frankly chilling revelation from veteran journalist Megyn Kelly has added a macabre dimension to the tragedy, casting the young leader’s final hours not just in the shadow of political enmity, but in the grip of genuine spiritual dread.
Kelly’s emotional account, shared on her podcast, pulls back the curtain on a moment of private terror experienced by Charlie Kirk and his wife, Erika, just days before the sniper’s bullet ended his life.
The heart of the story rests on a controversial article published by the feminist website Jezebel, which reportedly detailed the highly unusual and malevolent act of the writer contracting with witches on the online marketplace Etsy to place a hex, or curse, upon the Turning Point USA founder. For the Kirks, a deeply Christian, gospel-believing family, this was not merely a nasty stunt—it was a cause for genuine fear that led to a last-minute, desperate plea for divine protection.
The narrative detailed in the Jezebel piece was not subtle. It was an open and disturbing venture into the occult, framed as political commentary. The writer boasted of deliberately seeking out curses against Kirk, motivated by his “regressive rhetoric” and a desire for him to be “punished for years.” The article itself was published on Monday, September 8th, just two days before Kirk was killed. However, the spiritual machinations began much earlier.
The writer made it clear that the curse was contracted in late August, intentionally timed to align with the new moon in Virgo on August 23rd. This detail becomes chilling when juxtaposed with the assurances of the “witch” they hired. One practitioner, they revealed, promised on that same date: “You will see the first results within two to three weeks.” This two-to-three-week window of darkness, sought out and paid for, converged in a truly horrifying fashion with the day Charlie Kirk was killed, 18 days after the curse was cast.
Not content with one attempt, the Jezebel writer reportedly reached out to a “third witch, Priestess Lillen,” driven by the macabre question of whether multiple curses would be stronger. The chilling climax of this online transaction was Lillen sending the writer “proof of the hex she had cast,” which included a photograph of Charlie Kirk in flames, “the edges slowly curling inward, engulfing Charlie’s ridiculous scrunched up little face.” The priestess’s accompanying whisper—**“trust the unseen”—**was noted by the Jezebel writer with a simple, chilling remark: “Chills.”
For any individual, especially one of profound faith, the public and detailed solicitation of a hex would be disturbing. But for Charlie and Erika Kirk, the news caused a moment of genuine, consuming dread.
Megyn Kelly shared the heartbreaking insight that the news “genuinely rattled Erica in particular.” Knowing the Christian opposition to casting spells or contacting the spirit world—a belief rooted in the acknowledgment of the devil and evil spirits, as Father Mike Schmidt explained in a previous discussion—Erika knew this was not a game.
In the face of this spiritual assault, the couple did not turn to public outrage but to private faith. The night before he was murdered, Kelly revealed, **Erika and Charlie contacted a friend—**whom the source suggested may have been a Catholic priest, but was definitely a trusted friend—and asked him to come over and pray with them over Charlie.
This deeply intimate scene provides a haunting insight into the immense personal toll of the political environment. In their final hours together, with two young children asleep nearby, the couple was not discussing policy or security; they were kneeling in prayer, seeking God’s protection against a published, purchased curse.
This act of faith—a profound, quiet moment of human vulnerability against a backdrop of public venom—shows the depth of their belief and their fear. They eventually found comfort and resolve in a verse, with Erika later telling Kelly that they concluded “weapons will form but not prosper,” a statement that speaks volumes about their surrender to divine will even as a political assassin was preparing to strike.
Following the assassination, Jezebel took down the article, citing the “recommendation of our lawyers” and a desire to avoid the piece being “misused in a tense and volatile environment.” They claimed the piece was intended as “humorous, intended as satire” and insisted they wished Charlie “no physical harm.”
Yet, in the very same breath, they demonstrated a profound and stunning lack of remorse, defiantly stating: “We stand by every word.” This means they stood by wanting him cursed, wanting everyone to hate him, and wanting him “punished.”
Megyn Kelly was quick to call out the narcissism of this response, focusing her anger not on the initial act of the curse, but on the cold, self-centered reaction after the murder. The publisher’s focus was entirely on their “legal team,” their “staff’s safety,” and the potential for “violence against them” by Kirk’s supporters.
Kelly laid bare the sheer inhumanity of their priorities: “How about a profuse apology for writing about and posting about such disturbing, wretched, evil, and horrible things and then ultimately this awful death that poor Charlie Kirk’s family is now faced with?” she challenged.
The refusal to offer a sincere apology to Erika Kirk, a grieving wife and mother of two babies, for the “distress in what would be the waning hours” of her husband’s life, exposes a moral void in the heart of the publication. The fear the Kirks felt in their final night was a direct result of the editorially sanctioned malice of the article, and the lack of contrition is, as Kelly states, nothing short of despicable.
The spiritual aspect of this tragedy may be dismissed by some as irrelevant, yet it perfectly mirrors the escalating, venomous hatred that fueled the political assassination itself. The gunman, Tyler James Robinson, was quickly identified by officials as being motivated by a “leftist ideology,” and the discovery of ammunition engraved with taunting messages only reinforces the premeditated malice that mirrored the curse’s intent.
The story, ultimately, is a horrifying confluence of the symbolic and the fatal. It warns that when political rhetoric incorporates spiritual warfare and celebrates the downfall of an opponent through acts of dark, malicious intent, the psychological and emotional barrier to real-world violence is utterly broken.
The image of the Kirks, on their knees in prayer against a hex, just hours before the political execution, is the ultimate testament to the “dark state” of American discourse. It is a legacy forged not just in political conviction, but in the final, desperate plea of a couple who knew, perhaps better than anyone, that they were battling an evil that was both political and profoundly spiritual. The nation must reckon with the kind of hate that makes a family fear a curse one moment and confront a sniper the next.
