A protester tried to derail Erika Kirk’s address Friday with a shouted accusation, but her answer earned a standing ovation.

The interruption came midway through Kirk’s address at Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit, where she had been speaking on faith and conservative values, as seen in a video of the speech posted by Turning Point USA. The heckler shouted “Erika Kirk protects pedophiles” more than once.

The crowd turned on the disruptor almost immediately. Attendees booed and told the person to leave while Kirk stood quietly for a few beats. (RELATED: Man Arrested For Threatening To Kill Erika Kirk At TPUSA Event)

She then folded a response into her remarks. “It’s important to remember that happiness comes and goes and I pray that you find it,” Kirk said in the video. After the applause settled, she added, “And we must pray for our enemies and those that do not feel like their life has meaning.” Kirk went on to call the heckler “not the enemy,” telling the audience, “We know who the real enemy is.”

The clip spread quickly across social media, where conservative commentator Eric Daugherty shared the exchange and described her reply as a display of pure class, according to his post on X.

Kirk has absorbed a steady stream of hostility since her husband, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was assassinated at Utah Valley University in September, according to Fox News. She took over as TPUSA’s chief executive following his death.

The heckler named no individual. Kirk backs President Trump, whose name appeared in the Epstein files. The Justice Department called those claims false, according to TheWrap.