Actor-comedian Tim Allen said he chose to forgive the driver who killed his dad after being moved by Erika Kirk’s speech at her husband’s memorial service.“My husband, Charlie, wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life,” Erika Kirk said of her husband’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, before quoting a Bible passage. “On the cross, our savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.’ That man. That young man. I forgive him,” the widowed Kirk said during the memorial on Sunday.Robinson is accused of shooting the far-right podcaster as he spoke on a college campus in Utah earlier this month. The conservative comedian, the voice of Buzz Lightyear in the “Toy Story” movies, told his followers Thursday on X, formerly Twitter, “that moment deeply affected” him and pushed him to forgive the person who killed his father in 1964. When Erika Kirk spoke the words on the man who killed her husband: “That man… that young man… I forgive him.” That moment deeply affected me. I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad. I will say those words now as I type: “ I forgive the man who…— Tim Allen (@ofctimallen) September 25, 2025Allen’s father, Gerald M. Dick, died when the actor was 11 years old, he said in a 2006 interview on “Inside the Actors Studio.” Dick was driving his wife and kids home from a Colorado football game when someone swerved across the road and hit his vehicle.The actor said his dad broke his neck and died in his mother’s lap. Tim Allen said Thursday in a post on social media that he now forgives the driver who killed his father in 1964 after hearing Erika Kirk's speech during a memorial earlier this week for her late husband.via Associated Press“As many times as I’ve relived this, and if you haven’t had a death in your family, I don’t suggest it, but it certainly changes every single thing in your whole,” Allen said back then. “Everything from your cells and DNA turns a different color.” He told host James Lipton that “every single thing” in his life changed the moment his father died. “I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad,” Allen wrote on X. “I will say those words now as I type: ‘I forgive the man who killed my father.’ Peace be with you all.”Close