{"id":2023785,"date":"2025-09-15T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2023785"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:37:02","slug":"hgtv-star-erin-napier-clashes-with-fans-over-charlie-kirk-death-i-will-not-celebrate-murder-national-enquirer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hgtv-star-erin-napier-clashes-with-fans-over-charlie-kirk-death-i-will-not-celebrate-murder-national-enquirer\/","title":{"rendered":"HGTV Star Erin Napier Clashes With Fans Over Charlie Kirk Death: \u2018I Will Not Celebrate Murder\u2019 \u2013 National Enquirer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16962\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1763px;\"><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arroyo-OConnor \/ AFF-USA.com \/ MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HGTV star <strong>Erin Napier<\/strong> stood her ground in a shocking debate with her Instagram followers over the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/charlie-kirk-dead-at-the-age-of-31-after-utah-valley-university-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assassination<\/a> of conservative political activist <strong>Charlie Kirk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly the demonized celebrate death,\u201d the Mississippi-based designer, 40, pointedly wrote on an Instagram Story the day after Kirk was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/charlie-kirks-wife-and-children-were-present-at-utah-valley-university-during-fatal-shooting-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murdered<\/a> in Utah, on Wednesday, September 10, per the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-15097751\/HGTV-star-fans-celebrate-Charlie-Kirk-death.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some followers attacked the Turning Point USA founder\u2019s beliefs and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/msnbc-fires-political-commentator-matthew-dowd-after-insensitive-charlie-kirk-remarks-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed<\/a> outrage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am revolted by some of the comments in my DMs,\u201d replied Erin who has starred on the reno show <em>Home Town<\/em> with her husband, <strong>Ben Napier<\/strong>, since 2016. \u201cUnfollow me, immediately, if you could be one of those comments. Christ, have mercy on us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, the mom of two shared some of those comments from fans, who threatened to stop buying her products and watching her hit show. \u201cBecause I will not celebrate murder,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16529\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1290px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16529\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Featured-1-Charlie-Kirk-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Featured-1-Charlie-Kirk-1.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Featured-1-Charlie-Kirk-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Featured-1-Charlie-Kirk-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Featured-1-Charlie-Kirk-1-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican National Convention via CNP \/ MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cReally, Erin? You are homeschooling your precious children in LAUREL, MS (of all places) to prevent something like this from happening to them. This guy was ALL FOR IT. He died for what he believed in. God have mercy on his soul because I do not,\u201d one user wrote, quoting Kirk\u2019s words following the 2023 Nashville school shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights,\u201d Kirk <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JasonSCampbell\/status\/1643977032509067272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1643977032509067272%7Ctwgr%5E35d548925a14b3e8973e2613733a214eac7aa8f0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fcharlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-it-2nd-amendment-1793113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Erin\u2019s response? \u201cYou know nothing about why I am homeschooling my children, you sick goblin.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16986\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1717px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA916515_082-scaled-e1757946227259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"1455\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA916515_082-scaled-e1757946227259.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA916515_082-scaled-e1757946227259-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA916515_082-scaled-e1757946227259-1024x873.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA916515_082-scaled-e1757946227259-768x655.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA916515_082-scaled-e1757946227259-1536x1309.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arroyo-OConnor \/ AFF-USA.com \/ MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Finally on September 14, she and Ben, 41, shared a joint <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOl6h3GkZJm\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>, featuring a blue sky and clouds, captioned with a prayer. \u201cIf anyone sees us and they feel lighter, let it be your light they see. If anyone sees sadness in a broken house, let them see all of our human brokenness and look for an answer in the house of the Lord,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive us strength to love, give us your peace and your kindness even as we reject wickedness and let it be what the world sees in me,\u201d the prayer continues. \u201cNot the world\u2019s definition of light, happiness, compassion or renewal. Less of me, more of Jesus, the light of the world. Amen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many fans commented with their support. \u201cThank you for being courageous and and standing firm in your faith!\u201d wrote one, while another added, \u201cThese words of love and compassion that we all need right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '599767249846087');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nationalenquirer.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arroyo-OConnor \/ AFF-USA.com \/ MEGA HGTV star Erin Napier stood her ground in a shocking debate with her Instagram followers over the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk. \u201cOnly the demonized celebrate death,\u201d the Mississippi-based designer, 40, pointedly wrote on an Instagram Story the day after Kirk was murdered in Utah, on Wednesday, September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2023786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HGTV-Star-Erin-Napier-Clashes-With-Fans-Over-Charlie-Kirk.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}