Jamie Lee Curtis breaks down in tears over Charlie Kirk - despite hugely opposing views

Freaky Friday actor Jamie Lee Curtis got emotional and burst into tears after she started sharing her thoughts on Charlie Kirk, who was shot lastweek. The 31-year-old conservative activist was killed by a single shotwhile he was speaking at a rally at Utah Valley University last Wednesday, in what authorities are calling a political assassination.

Detectives are preparing to file murder charges against 22-year-old Tyler Robinson following a 33-hour-long manhunt. Robinson handed himself in to the police after his father recognised him from CCTV footage released by authorities during the search.

Jamie Lee Curtis brought up the incident during an episode of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, where she said she wanted to bring up the topic as it was at the ‘front of her mind’. She said through tears that while she ‘disagreed with him’, she hopes he felt ‘connected with his faith’.

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Jamie said: “I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say, but I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died, that he felt connected with his faith. Even though his ideas were abhorrent to me. I still believe he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith. And I hope whatever connection to God means that he felt it.”

The actor added: “Yesterday was 9/11. I know there is a video of his assassination. I know people who’ve seen it. Yesterday, we watched again these images of those buildings coming down. … Today, we as a society are bombarded with imagery. So we don’t know what the longitudinal effects of seeing those towers come down over and over and over and over again, or watching his execution over and over and over again. … I don’t ever want to see this footage of this man being shot.”

Jamie said with concern that ‘we don’t know enough psychologically’ about the effect these images are having on members of society and asked: “Is that the reason why we’re all feeling this lack of humanity, because we’re just saturated with these images?”

Following Charlie’s sudden death, his wife delivered a tearful and at times angry speech from her late husband's streaming room. Erika broke down in tears as she addressed President Trump.

"My husband loved you," she sobbed, adding that she knew the former president reciprocated her husband's affection.

She asserted that Charlie was killed because he preached about "patriotism and god's love." She also vowed that she wouldn't let her husband's mission "die", reports the Mirror US.

She went on to pledge that she would carry on Charlie Kirk's campus tour and podcast, which had generated millions for the pair.

"My husband's mission will not end, not even for a moment," Erika Kirk continued. "We'll never surrender. We never will ever. Ever. Our campus tour this fall will continue. There will be even more tours in the years to come."

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