Jillian Michaels on Being Platformed by Charlie Kirk

Showing 6 Jillian Michaels videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Jillian Michaels, the fitness personality who is married to a woman, became an unlikely example in discussions about Charlie Kirk's approach to disagreement: despite their opposing views on marriage and gender, Kirk platformed her directly, a choice she pointed to after his death as proof of a commitment to genuine debate rather than an echo chamber. She used that platform to address a specific, uncomfortable development in the aftermath of the assassination, reports of high school students celebrating the killing, arguing that the toxic othering driving that reaction needed to stop regardless of anyone's politics. Michaels appeared again on Candace Owens's show in a wide-ranging, largely unrelated conversation covering Blake Lively, Harvey Weinstein, and Emmanuel Macron's wife, where she also described being targeted by an unrelated stalking threat from a woman she said was fixated on her, an incident she found genuinely bewildering given how little she had interacted with the person. She surfaced a third time on a Piers Morgan panel alongside Riley Gaines that turned combative when another commentator's past social media posts mocking Kirk's death and targeting Erika Kirk came under direct scrutiny, a moment that captured how quickly discussions about civil discourse could themselves become uncivil.