“Home Improvement” star Tim Allen said Erika Kirk’s emotional eulogy at her late husband’s memorial service moved him so deeply that he found the strength to forgive the man who killed his father.
Erika gave an incredible tribute last weekend to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, her husband of four years, who was assassinated during a speaking event at Utah Valley University on September 10. She spoke about his deep faith and told the estimated 100 million people watching that she forgave Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing her husband.
“When Erika Kirk spoke the words on the man who killed her husband — ‘That man … that young man … I forgive him’ — that moment deeply affected me,” Allen wrote on X on Thursday.
When Erika Kirk spoke the words on the man who killed her husband: “That man… that young man… I forgive him.” That moment deeply affected me. I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad. I will say those words now as I type: “I forgive the man who…
— Tim Allen (@ofctimallen) September 25, 2025
“I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad. I will say those words now as I type: ‘I forgive the man who killed my father.’ Peace be with you all,” the 72-year-old actor continued.
Allen’s father, Gerald, lost his life in 1964 when a drunk driver veered across the median and struck him. Allen was just 11 years old at the time.
In a 2011 interview with Esquire, Allen said he’s “never gotten over” his father’s death.
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“As children, your world is yours. That day taught me that it’s really not your world. Somebody else is in control — fate, God, whatever it is. It is not your show,” he said at the time. “And the show can be brutal. Brutal in its coldness. Brutal in its love and affection. Sh** can hit you straight between the eyes, and you never saw it coming.”
Allen also said the accident tested his relationship with God.
“It changed everything forever,” the actor said during an interview with AARP in 2012. “Part of me still doesn’t trust that things are going to work out all right. I knew my father was dead, but I was never satisfied with why he was dead. I wanted answers that minute from God. ‘Do you think this is funny? Do you think this is necessary?’ And I’ve had a tumultuous relationship with my creator ever since.”
During her eulogy, Erika told the crowd that Charlie “wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life.”
“Our Savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.’ That young man … I forgive him,” the grieving widow said. “I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and it’s what Charlie would do.”
The comments on Allen’s X post were filled with support and commiseration.
“CS Lewis said, ‘To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.’ It’s hard! And so worth the struggle to get there,” one person wrote.
“Forgiveness is for the forgiver, not the forgiven. You are free Tim,” another commenter said.
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