Savannah Chrisley is clapping back after Selling Sunset alum Christine Quinn dissed Erika Kirk for being “everywhere but with her kids.”
“Wow… this is really disappointing to see from you. I know you’re better than this,” Chrisley, 28, wrote via X on Thursday, December 11, replying to Quinn’s now-viral post.
Chrisley continued to defend Erika, who shared two young children with late conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
“Erika isn’t ‘everywhere but with her kids’ she’s everywhere fighting FOR them,” Chrisley wrote. “She’s raising her babies while surviving a level of grief most people would crumble under. Showing up, advocating, building, working… that’s called resilience, not absence.”
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The Chrisley Knows Best alum added, “Taking a cheap shot at a woman who just lost her husband and is doing everything she can to create stability for her children isn’t the look you think it is. Erika is one of the strongest, most intentional mothers I’ve ever witnessed and she deserves compassion, not commentary from people who see a post but not her pain.”
Erika, 37, has not been shy about grieving publicly since Charlie was shot and killed at a speaking event in Utah in September. He was 31 years old.
In October, Erika responded to criticism over her approach to coping with her husband’s death, noting in an Instagram post that “there is no linear blueprint for grief.”
The newly appointed CEO of Charlie’s Turning Point USA organization said she still carries her husband “in every breath, in every ache, and in every quiet act of day to day living as I attempt to relearn what that rhythm will be.”
“And what I’ve realized through these past 30 days is the greater the suffering, the purer the love,” she concluded. “And I have never loved him more than I do now.”
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In the wake of Charlie’s death, Erika has given countless interviews honoring her late husband. Fox News kicked off “Erika Kirk Week” on Monday, December 8, with the first of six appearances by Erika on the network to promote Charlie’s new book, Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life.
As the week continued, Erika shut down conspiracy theories surrounding Charlie’s death during an appearance on Fox News’ Outnumbered. She emphasized that she wants “justice” for her husband and their family.
“Call me what you want. Go down that rabbit hole, whatever. But when you go after my family, my Turning Point USA family, my Charlie Kirk Show family, when you go after the people that I love … No,” she said.
Quinn isn’t the only celebrity who has voiced their opinion on the Kirks. Amanda Seyfried recently doubled down after she faced backlash in September for calling Charlie a “hateful” person. (She previously claimed via Instagram that her comments were “irresponsibly (but understandably) taken out of context.”)
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“I’m not f***ing apologizing for that,” Seyfried, 40, told Who What Wear on Wednesday, December 10. “I mean, for f***’s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, of course.”
Chrisley, meanwhile, has publicly supported Erika more than once, even comparing her eulogy at Charlie’s funeral to a “Jackie Kennedy moment.”
“She was so poised and so full of God’s love and grace,” Chrisley said on her “Unlocked” podcast in September. “I don’t know how she did it. I don’t know how she stood up there and spoke the praises of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, when her husband just got assassinated in front of the world. I don’t, honestly, think I would be strong enough to do that.”