The political commentator made the comments at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 in Phoenix

Megyn Kelly; Charlie Kirk.Credit : Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty; Michael S. Schwartz/Getty

Megyn Kelly said there are times when she still looks to the late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk for advice following his death in September.

Speaking to far-right activist Jack Posobiec at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix on Friday, Dec. 19, Kelly, 55, mentioned Erika Kirk’s recent sit-down with conservative podcaster Candace Owens, claiming that Erika had called her to ask if she wanted to moderate the conversation.

Erika, 37, and Owens, 36, met on Monday, Dec. 15, and ended up having a 4 1/2-hour-long discussion, the latter shared on X at the time. In recent months, Owens has been sharing multiple conspiracy theories about who was responsible for Charlie’s death, which has allegedly caused a rift between the two, per CNN.

Kelly spoke about the supposed “feud” between Erika and Owens during her SiriusXM show last week, insisting, “It’s been going on now for a while,” before giving her take on the whole thing.

She then said during Friday’s TPUSA event, “I’ve prayed so many times to Charlie, and to God, to give me the right guidance on how to handle this whole thing…” mentioning that there has been a “fracture” within the conservative party amid the tensions.

Megyn Kelly speaks during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 on Dec. 19, 2025.Brian Cahn/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Earlier in her Q&A with Posobiec, Kelly paid tribute to Charlie, saying, “I miss him so much … he was always so great.”

“He always knew exactly what question to ask, how to get you up and down in a story. He had a very good judgment for what was interesting to the audience too and was always so generous with his time and, you know, his approach,” Kelly continued.

The political commentator went on, “So that of course I’m going to miss, but I can’t believe it’s been three months. In some ways it feels like yesterday and in some ways it feels like another lifetime that we’ve seen him, right?”

TPUSA’s AmericaFest event began on Thursday, Dec. 18, and concluded on Sunday, Dec. 21.

Charlie Kirk speaks to Megyn Kelly during the Turning Point Action general session in West Palm Beach, Florida in July 2023.Meghan McCarthy / USA TODAY NETWORK

Ahead of the conference, a recreation of the booth in which TPUSA founder, Charlie, was shot and killed, was installed as a photo op for attendees.

At the time he was fatally shot on Sept. 10, the 31-year-old was manning his signature “Prove Me Wrong” table as part of his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley University.

Brandy Zadrozny of MS NOW reported from the conference, “This is a recreation of the tent where Charlie Kirk lost his life at Utah Valley University in September, and people are taking selfies with it,” adding, “You can see all around, people are saying like, ‘For Charlie,’ they’re wearing replicas of the shirt that Charlie Kirk was wearing when he was killed.”

“The second thing that’s happening is really a passing of the torch,” Zadrozny continued.

“And that torch, as you mentioned, was being passed to his widow, Erika Kirk. Erika Kirk is now in charge of a political organization that brought in $100 million and that, you know, Donald Trump and JD Vance credit [it] with swinging some of the youth vote to Donald Trump,” she added, referring to Erika becoming TPUSA’s CEO.

Following a manhunt for the suspect after the shooting in September, Tyler Robinson, 22, was later taken into custody, and is now facing multiple charges, including aggravated murder, in connection with the late right-wing political commentator’s death.