Candace Owens is diving deep into Erika Kirk‘s (née Frantzve) previous, claiming Kirk lied about how she acquired concerned within the pageant world.
Throughout the Friday, February 27, episode of Owens’ Bride of Charlie YouTube sequence, Owens, 36, denied Kirk’s earlier assertion about beginning her pageant profession after getting a letter within the mail that stated somebody “nominated” her to take part in an occasion.
“If you must say you weren’t groomed for one thing, you most likely have been,” Owens stated. “And the truth is that each single 12 months, from 2005 by way of to 2012, Erika was concerned in magnificence pageants. That’s seven years of her life that we might discover. There may very well be extra.”
Owens insinuated that Kirk’s mom, Lori Frantzvewas the one to get her concerned and that Kirk, 37, probably had her personal motivations, claiming that she made sure connections through the years to enhance her social standing and land a husband like Charlie Kirk.
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She continued, “I also needs to add right here that some pageant ladies disputed (Erika’s) narrative, they wrote to us, that she was simply randomly invited. They stated that minors, particularly, are usually not simply freely solicited to hitch the pageant world and that their picture must be submitted by a guardian or a guardian. I’m not an knowledgeable on that.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Erika Kirk for remark.
Erika’s pageant historical past was beforehand talked about within the second episode of Owens’ Bride of Charlie docuseries earlier this week, the place Owens reacted to the Turning Level USA government’s 2020 interview about her journey.
“The pageant world is one thing that was an attention-grabbing season of life,” Erika stated within the now-resurfaced clip. “It was nothing that I used to be ever groomed for. It was nothing that was ever on my radar.”
Erika additional claimed that she was nominated to take part in Miss Arizona USA when she was nonetheless at school.
“I believed, if I have been to ever win this, a very powerful factor out of it could be to have the ability to make a distinction with the title,” she stated. “I don’t care concerning the picture shoots. I simply need to have the ability to overbook myself, having the ability to get entangled with the native communities (and) organizations which can be really making a distinction. The pageant world, for me, was one thing that was not a type of narcissism. It was extra alongside the phrases of being a steward for my state.”
Owens, nevertheless, didn’t consider Erika.
“Erika has been concerned in pageants from the very starting. Her mom is unquestionably the one who pushed that,” Owens claimed in her Thursday, February 25, YouTube episode. “Erika, with out query and anyone who’s being goal and sincere and taking a look at her historical past of the those who she’s dated and the individuals wished to be in shut proximity to can assure that this woman wished to be well-known, like, very badly.”
Erika Kirk.
Olivier Touron / AFPErika, who was married to conservative commentator Charlie earlier than his 2025 dying, gained Miss Arizona USA in 2012. She went on to take part in Miss USA 2012 seven years earlier than making her actuality TV debut on Bravo’s Summer season Home. Erika and her then-boyfriend, JT Masseylater auditioned for The Superb Race in 2014.
Erika has not publicly addressed any of her alleged pursuits of fame, most just lately staying targeted on working Charlie’s Turning Level USA group and elevating their youngsters in mild of his dying. Charlie was shot and killed in September 2025 throughout a talking engagement. He was 31.
“Charlie beloved life. He beloved his life, he beloved America, he beloved nature which at all times helped him nearer to God,” Erika stated in a press release on the time. “He beloved the Chicago Cubs and my goodness did he love the Oregon Geese. Most of all, Charlie beloved his youngsters and he beloved me with all of his coronary heart and I knew that on a regular basis. He made certain I knew that on a regular basis.”
Erika, who shared two youngsters with Charlie, was named the brand new CEO and chairperson of Turning Level following his assassination.
“I didn’t ask for this. It’s, clearly, a blessing,” Erika stated of turning into a working mom throughout a CBS Information city corridor in December 2025. “I view it as a blessing (and) an obligation to my husband, however I used to be very comfortable being a stay-at-home mother. There’s nothing fallacious with being a mom. There’s really (no) extra stunning and emotional and highly effective ‘job title,’ if you’ll, (than) being a mom.”