Virginia’s governor gave Megyn Kelly security protection during her first public appearance on a college campus following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, she said in a new interview.
Kelly, the former Fox News prime time host, told The Post’s Miranda Devine that she had been scheduled to appear alongside Kirk at Virginia Tech just weeks after his Sept. 10 assassination on the Utah Valley University campus.
Kelly recounted taking the stage at Burruss Hall on Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus on Sept. 24 for Turning Point USA’s “American Comeback Tour.”
“God bless Glenn Youngkin, the great, great outgoing governor of Virginia, because he was there, too,” she told Devine on her “Pod Force One” podcast.
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Kelly called the GOP governor a “sweetheart” after he volunteered to have his heavily armed security detail stay behind and watch over her.
“He came with a bunch of security because he’s the governor and he had the guys, like the s–t-kicking guys … but like with the camo and the helmets and the big, serious ammo across their bodies,” Kelly recalled.
“And Gov. Youngkin left before I left, because I was there much longer than he was with the Q&A,” she continued. “He left all those guys behind, saying, ‘You stay here and you take care of Megyn,’ which he totally didn’t have to do. But what a class act.”
The Post has sought comment from Youngkin.
Kelly said that following the Kirk assassination, she had to weigh the risks of making public appearances for her just-announced national tour.
“It was a heavy realization when it dawned on me that I was booked the next week or two weeks later to be on campus with Charlie as part of his college tour at Virginia Tech, and he was booked a couple of weeks after that to come with me on my tour,” Kelly said.
Despite safety concerns and what she described as her husband’s “strong thoughts” on the matter, Kelly said there was “zero part of me that could not do it.”
She said she hired top security to protect audiences and staff, feeling determined to make sure that “the people who come to see me and my guests [are] absolutely safe and not even have it be a thought.”
Her first appearance after Kirk’s death briefly felt “odd,” she said, but she quickly regained composure.
Since resuming her tour, Kelly said ticket sales have surged, with several venues sold out.
She said people are “rushing to buy the tickets,” adding that audiences are rallying to show that “an assassin’s bullet is not going to silence any of us.”
“You should always take risks, even if you’re not a courageous person, because the more risks you take, they either pan out and then you feel like, oh, that wasn’t so bad, or they don’t pan out, and then you literally only have to do one thing — keep going,” she said.
