{"id":143720,"date":"2025-09-17T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143720\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:20:09","slug":"jamie-lee-curtis-breaks-down-in-tears-over-charlie-kirks-death-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143720\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis breaks down in tears over Charlie Kirk\u2019s death | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jamie-lee-curtis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a> broke down in tears over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/charlie-kirk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/erika-kirk-usha-vance-charlie-casket-video-b2825872.html\" title=\"Charlie Kirk\u2019s wife Erika clutches Usha Vance\u2019s hand as casket arrives in Phoenix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">death<\/a> mid-way through an interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/marc-maron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Maron<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;WTF&#8221; podcast.<\/p>\n<p>In the episode released on Monday (15 September), the Freakier Friday star, 66, became emotional as she discussed how the right-wing political commentator and Donald Trump ally was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/ted-cruz-charlie-kirk-graffiti-video-b2826795.html\" title=\"Ted Cruz paints over anti-Charlie Kirk graffiti on Texas freeway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot and killed while addressing a crowd<\/a> at a university campus.<\/p>\n<p>After mistakenly calling him &#8220;Charlie Christ,&#8221; Curtis maintained that she disagreed with Kirk &#8220;on almost every point&#8221; she ever heard him say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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\u2019s a father and a husband and a man of faith,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis broke down in tears over Charlie Kirk&#8216;s death mid-way through an interview on Marc Maron&#8216;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-143720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}