There is no bad blood between Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens — even though they have different thoughts about Erika Kirk (née Frantzve).
“Candace knows I disagree with her on this,” Kelly, 55, said in a resurfaced clip from a past episode of SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show. “Petty internet people want to turn that into a catfight between Candace and yours truly, which will fail.”
Kelly added, “She and I have, actually, only gotten closer over the past couple of months as people try to make me attack her, so f*** off.”
Kelly has publicly supported Erika, 37, following the September 2025 death of her husband, Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University. He was 31 years old.
Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Erika Kirk . Getty Images (3)
Owens, meanwhile, has not been offering the same support, despite her lengthy history with Charlie. Both Owens and Charlie came up in politics at the same time. In 2017, Charlie hired Owens as the communications director of his Turning Point USA organization, a role she held until 2019.
“For two years straight, Charlie and I flew around the world together on very little sleep. We were always exhausted. I’m not kidding. We took hundreds of flights together. We slept in the crappiest hotel rooms,” Owens said of her friendship with Charlie following his death. “When you’re in that capacity with someone for two years straight just traveling nonstop, you really get to know them. You really see them in every condition. You start bickering like an old married couple.”
In the months after Charlie’s death, Owens started sharing conspiracy theories about his apparent murder on social media. Erika issued a plea for her to “stop” in a December 2025 interview.
“That’s all I have to say,” Erika said. “Stop.”
The two women later met face-to-face, which Kelly helped facilitate.
“I thought that was a great idea and I fully support it and I have been in touch with both of them repeatedly,” she said during a December 2025 episode of The Megyn Kelly Show. “I really fully believe God’s role for me here is to possibly play a role in getting this whole thing to a better place.”
Erika noted that it was “a very productive conversation” between her and Owens. However, Owens came for Erika the following month by releasing what appeared to be audio of a conversation she had with Turning Point USA staff two weeks after Charlie’s death. (Erika was named the Turning Point USA CEO following his murder.)
“It’s the laughter that is off-putting. Again, we are not even two weeks after watching your husband be assassinated,” Owens said, referring to the “tone” of Erika’s voice in the audio. “We’re talking about numbers and metrics that have been hit.”
Owens claimed Erika moved “pretty quickly to the acceptance phase” after her husband was killed. “The video is real and authenticated,” a spokesperson for Owens told Us at the time.
Owens has continued her feud with Erika by releasing two episodes of a YouTube series titled The Bride of Charlie.
“I will tell you my personal opinion and experience with her,” Owens alleged in the episode released on Wednesday, February 25. “What alarms me about Erika isn’t so much the fact that she lies, which we will prove to you over and over again, but it’s also the fact that I don’t know that she’s aware that she’s lying.”
