Fact Check: Did ‘The Charlie Kirk Show’ debut with Megyn Kelly and Erika Kirk hit 1 billion views?

WASHINGTON, DC: A Facebook post by the page Down Home Country on September 25, 2025, set off a wave of excitement among Charlie Kirk’s followers.

The post claimed that the debut episode of 'The Charlie Kirk Show' had officially crossed 1 billion views worldwide.

Claim: ‘The Charlie Kirk Show’ debut episode brought in 1 billion views

According to the post, the episode featured both political commentator Megyn Kelly and Erika Kirk, widow of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The post described the show as a landmark moment in digital broadcasting, with “powerful conversations” blending “raw emotion” and “sharp commentary.”

Within hours, the claim gained traction online, drawing more than 330,000 reactions, 15,000 shares, and over 10,000 comments. Many users congratulated Kirk’s program for what they believed was an extraordinary milestone.

Fact Check: No evidence to back claim

Despite the virality, fact-checking shows the claim does not hold. 'The Charlie Kirk Show' actually premiered in July 2019, long before Erika Kirk became a public figure.

IMDb listings confirm that neither Megyn Kelly nor Erika Kirk appeared in the show’s early episodes. No evidence suggests the show has ever reached the 1 billion mark for a single episode.

For comparison, even the most-watched global events, like Super Bowl halftime shows or FIFA World Cup finals, pull in viewership numbers in the hundreds of millions, not billions. 

The Facebook page that spread the claim, Down Home Country, has previously been flagged for pushing misleading content and using AI-generated images.

Megyn Kelly confirms Erika Kirk for tour finale

While the viral claim was false, Erika Kirk is stepping into the spotlight. On September 25, 2025, Megyn Kelly announced that Erika will join her for the final date of the Megyn Kelly Live Tour.

The event is scheduled for November 22, 2025, at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. Kelly’s website notes that Erika Kirk will appear alongside novelist Walter Kirn for the finale. 

Kelly praised Erika as “brave” for agreeing to what will be her first extended live interview, saying Erika would appear in honor of her late husband, Charlie Kirk, who was originally slated to take part.

In the lead-up to her announcement, Kelly also touched on a controversy involving Jezebel. On her SiriusXM show, she revealed that Charlie and Erika Kirk had been unsettled by a Jezebel article published shortly before Charlie Kirk’s murder.

According to 'The Megyn Kelly Show',  Erika Kirk was left “rattled” after learning that Jezebel published a story boasting about paying witches on Etsy to curse her husband.

“On her September 23 broadcast, Kelly called the article “vile,” explaining that it had deeply affected the couple before Charlie was killed by a gunshot to the neck on September 10.

“Erika and Charlie Kirk heard about these curses, and that genuinely rattled Erika in particular. She knew Christian teaching on the subject, she loved Charlie deeply, and she was scared when she heard of the curses Jezebel had stirred up,” Kelly said.