Candace Owens had quite the friendship with Charlie Kirk before his untimely death. "Charlie really was an amazing person," Owens said in a September 2025 video, honoring Kirk. "We were really close and he was my best friend and my brother and I will never unsee the footage of what I saw, the violence of it." Owens was referring to the video of Kirk's death at age 31, which went viral on social media after he was shot on September 10, 2025, while speaking at Utah Valley University. "There's not a single person in the world that I would wish that on.