Jamie Lee Curtis Fights Back Tears Reflecting on Charlie Kirk’s Death Despite Clashing on ‘Almost’ Everything

Jamie Lee Curtis got emotional discussing the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, despite their past disagreements.

The Freaky Friday star, 66, opened up about Kirk’s death while speaking with Marc Maron during an appearance on his “WTF” podcast on Monday, September 15.

“I’m going to bring something up with you just because it’s front of mind,” Curtis explained before jokingly calling Kirk, “Charlie Christ,” due to his “deep, deep belief” in Christianity.

“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,” Curis, who is known to be an outspoken Democrat, explained while holding back tears. “Even though I find what he, 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 actress also spoke about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, comparing watching the towers falling on the news to the social media video of Kirk being fatally shot on a college campus.

“I know there is video of his assassination. I know people who’ve seen it,” she recounted. “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.”

Although Curtis referenced the infamous video that captured President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination, she explained that the younger generation has become “numb” to graphic media.

“But here we have now these images and we are inured to them. And we are numb to them,” she said. “We don’t know enough psychologically about what that does. What does that do? That kind of, I don’t ever wanna see this footage of this man being shot.”

Kirk was 31 years old when he was shot on September 10 while speaking to a large audience at Utah Valley University. About 20 minutes into his speech, he was fatally shot in the neck by a single bullet, which reportedly came from 200 feet away.

Although the shooter wasn’t immediately detained, Tyler Robinson was taken into custody on September 12 after allegedly confessing to the crime to his father.