{"id":255885,"date":"2025-09-26T10:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/255885\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:28:11","slug":"tim-allen-says-erika-kirks-memorial-speech-inspired-him-to-forgive-his-fathers-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/255885\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Allen says Erika Kirk&#8217;s memorial speech inspired him to forgive his father&#8217;s killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Allen is speaking out about how Erika Kirk\u2019s memorial speech \u201cdeeply affected\u201d him.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Allen took to X to share that he was personally moved by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/21\/us-news\/erika-kirk-gives-impassioned-tribute-at-husband-charlies-packed-remembrance-service-god-bless-all-of-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirk\u2019s forgiveness of the man who allegedly killed her husband, <\/a>Charlie Kirk, since forgiveness has not been as easy for him to give.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Erika Kirk spoke the words on the man who killed her husband \u2014 \u2018That man \u2026 that young man \u2026 I forgive him\u2019 \u2014 that moment deeply affected me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad. I will say those words now as I type: \u2018I forgive the man who killed my father.\u2019 Peace be with you all,\u201d Allen wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Allen\u2019s father died in 1964 after a drunk driver\u2019s vehicle collided with his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Allen was 11 years old at the time of his father\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>At Charlie\u2019s memorial service on Sunday, Erika publicly forgave Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old who is accused of killing the Turning Point USA founder.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie \u201cwanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Savior said, \u2018Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.\u2019 That young man \u2026 I forgive him,\u201d Erika said. \u201cI forgive him because it was what Christ did, and it\u2019s what Charlie would do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37218325\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-disney-upfront-javits-center-111156633.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Allen attending the 2025 Disney Upfront.\" class=\"wp-image-37218325\"  \/>Tim Allen said Erika Kirk\u2019s memorial speech \u201cdeeply affected\u201d him. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37218329\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/erika-kirk-departs-speaking-memorial-111905193.jpg\" alt=\"Erika Kirk departs after speaking at a memorial for her husband, conservative activist Charlie Kirk.\" class=\"wp-image-37218329\"  \/>Erika Kirk spoke at a memorial for her husband, conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 21, 2025. AP<\/p>\n<p>Charlie was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/10\/us-news\/charlie-kirk-possibly-targeted-in-shooting-at-utah-valley-university-event-during-his-american-comeback-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assassinated at a Turning Point USA event<\/a> at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 in Orem, Utah.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Robinson was arrested and is facing several charges, including aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm, obstruction of justice, witness tampering and violent offense in the presence of a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Allen is speaking out about how Erika Kirk\u2019s memorial speech \u201cdeeply affected\u201d him. On Thursday, Allen took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":255886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[185,1899,19719,171,71911,24595,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-255885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity-deaths","10":"tag-charlie-kirk","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-home-improvement","13":"tag-tim-allen","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115270130773160700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}