Jamie Lee Curtis Fights Back Tears Mid-Interview Over Charlie Kirk’s Death: ‘A Father, Husband and Main of Faith,’ Even If ‘His Ideas Were Abhorrent to Me’

Jamie Lee Curtis sobbed on Marc Maron’s “Wtf” podcast when she brought up Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder who was fatally shot in the neck on Sept. 10 at a Utah college. Curits and Maron recorded their podcast a few days the assassination.

“I’m going to bring something up with you just because it’s front of mind,” Curtis said before mistakenly naming Kirk as “Charlie Crist,” which Curtis said was a slip-of-the-tongue due to Kirk’s “deep, deep belief” in religion.

Curtis then fought through tears as she discussed Kirk’s killing, saying: “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…