Erika Kirk on Summer House
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Reality TV evidence confirms Erika Kirk dated someone just weeks before meeting Charlie

The episode aired in 2019

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ByCeline Byford

19th December 2025, 15:24

Erika Kirk appeared on two Summer House episodes, to be specific, season three episodes 11 and 12. They were filmed at The Hamptons in August 2018, a year before they were aired. She met and interviewed late husband Charlie Kirk weeks later, and turned it into a date.

There’s been some questions surrounding how long it was between her Summer House appearance and meeting the late far-right political speaker, who was tragically shot in public on September 10 this year.  She is believed to have lived in New York for four years.

Erika said she met Charlie Kirk in 2018 during what was supposed to be a job interview. They sat in Bill’s, an NYC burger joint, and had a “deep” conversation about “theology, philosophy, and politics and at the end, you paused, looked at me and said, ‘I’m going to date you.'”

During CBS News’ A Town Hall with Erika Kirk, Erika revealed she did not date while living in New York City for five years before she met Charlie in 2018. However, a clip of her dating on Summer House shows her being set up on a date with housemate Jordan Verroi.

 On December 15, a picture from 2015 of Erika and a man named Tyler ‘JT’ Massey went viral on X, that appears to be engagement photos. She’s also been romantically linked to Daily Wire former senior editor, Cabot Phillips, which apparently happened in 2014.

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