The Bachelor alum Madison “Madi” Prewett believes Charlie Kirk reaped “many rewards” upon his assassination at 31.
“We live for an audience of one. We live to please one. We are going to be face-to-face with one,” Prewett, 30, preached on the Monday, April 27, episode of her “Stay True” podcast. “We’re going to have to give an account to that one who is the king of all kings in the name above every name, and we will all be face-to-face with him one day. And it is a good wake-up call to how are you living your life?”
She continued, “So often we just get caught up in all the things and in a lot of things that just don’t really matter. I guarantee you if Charlie could come back, it’s, like, that’s one of the biggest messages he would just say is just, ‘Wake up. So many of us are living for worthless things.’”
Right-wing media personality Kirk was shot and killed during a speaking engagement in September 2025. He is survived by his wife, Erika, and their two children.
“Now that he’s in heaven, I can’t even imagine all the rewards he got in heaven of just for truth and, um, and loving people,” Prewett speculated. “That is what we’re here on this earth to do.”
Prewett further told her podcast guest, Kirk’s former Turning Point USA staffer Isabel Brown, that she is living that same mission “so beautifully.”
“Christ gave us a very, very specific command to be salt and to be light,” Brown, 28, said on the podcast. “Ultimately, both salt and light have one thing in common: They dramatically transform the environment around them. … Our obligation, not just opportunity as Christians, is to do everything we can to fight for what is good and true and beautiful.”
Brown called Kirk her mentor during the “Stay True” appearance, noting that it had been difficult to process her grief.
“Those of us who worked for him for so many years and who knew him personally all talk about it all the time that we have to kind of process in two layers right now,” she explained. “You’re mourning the loss of this amazing person who meant so much to you intimately, someone who you owe your career to, someone who you owe your family to. I can’t tell you how many hundreds or thousands of families like mine met at a TPUSA conference and worked for Charlie, and we all have children now.”
Brown continued, “There’s this personal aspect to it that, of course, takes years and years and years to get through, and that’s just grief when you lose anyone in your life, but especially in such a traumatic way. Then, there’s this extra societal redefining layer of grief that I think we last, honestly, experienced in culture probably with the death of Princess Diana.”
Diana was killed in a 1997 car accident in Paris at the age of 36. The People’s Princess’ sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, received an outpouring of support and well-wishes across the globe.
“I haven’t seen huge prayer vigils all over the world and people leaving teddy bears on the sidewalk and lighting candles in their community and all of these things ever since then,” Brown said. “This is a level of complete world-changing, cultural change that I don’t really know how to process yet, because for me it was just my friend Charlie. I think that will take a lot of time to get through. I think our country certainly lost a moral leader of a generation.”
