Who did candace owens say was friends with tyler bowyer in high school
Executive summary
Candace Owens has publicly alleged close personal ties between Tyler Bowyer and other figures tied to the Charlie Kirk controversy, but the available reporting does not include a clear, sourced quote in which Owens says a specific person was Bowyer’s friend “in high school.” Coverage does show Owens asserting Bowyer was friends with a man identified as Matthew (sometimes described as an alleged assaulter or Martinez) and discussing Bowyer’s relationships with Terryl/Tyrell Farnsworth and others close to Turning Point USA, but none of the supplied sources document a statement that those friendships dated back to high school [1] [2] [3].
1. What Owens has explicitly accused — the named “friend” claim
In multiple posts and interviews cited by other outlets, Owens has named people she distrusts around Turning Point USA and linked them to Tyler Bowyer; one item of reporting quotes material saying Bowyer and “the alleged assaulter Martinez” were friends, noting “Tyler and Matthew would post pictures together at dinner,” which is attributed to coverage repeating Owens’ accusations [1]. That same source frames Owens as disputing Bowyer’s public statements and saying she “knew Tyler Bowyer was lying” about other facts, indicating she has publicly portrayed Bowyer as socially connected to Matthew/Martinez [1].
2. Other people Owens has tied to Bowyer, without a “high school” timestamp
Reporting also documents Owens raising distrust of Terryl (also spelled Tyrell/Terryl in the reporting) Farnsworth alongside Tyler Bowyer, and asserting close links among Bowyer, Farnsworth and Erika Kirk in the post-Kirk controversy; the Times of India pieces summarize Owens’ suspicion of Farnsworth and Bowyer and her broader attacks on TPUSA leadership [2] [4] [3]. Those accounts show Owens alleging Bowyer recruited or brought certain people into organizations and highlighted social and professional ties, but they do not place those ties explicitly in a high-school timeframe [2] [3].
3. What the records and supplied reporting do not show — the high-school connection
None of the supplied sources contains a direct quote or a clear, attributed passage in which Candace Owens says, “X was friends with Tyler Bowyer in high school.” The closest on-record claims are that Bowyer was friends with a man named Matthew (also referenced as Martinez in some pieces) and that Bowyer had social ties with Terryl/Tyrell Farnsworth and others in TPUSA circles — but the reporting does not time-stamp these friendships to Bowyer’s high-school years [1] [2] [3]. This gap is important: the available materials document accusations of friendship and association, but not the specific claim about high school.
4. Conflicting narratives and agendas in the coverage
The pieces in the dataset come from a mix of outlets and aggregator-style reporting that amplifies a heated public row: Owens’ own shows and posts, conservative-leaning fan pages, and mainstream summaries that report the feud between Owens and TPUSA leadership [5] [3] [4]. Each source carries potential bias — Owens’ program material will present her claims as revelations, TPUSA-aligned coverage defends staff and frames the claims as harassment, and third-party summaries can conflate names and timelines — so the absence of a high-school timestamp could be an omission or an editorial simplification [5] [4] [3].
5. Why precision matters and where further reporting is needed
Because accusations about personal relationships have reputational consequences, and because Owens has made a range of allegations — from conspiracies about Charlie Kirk’s death to claims about staff misconduct and interpersonal ties — precise sourcing matters; the supplied reporting documents Owens alleging Bowyer’s friendship with a man named Matthew/Martinez and ties to Farnsworth and Erika Kirk, but it does not provide an evidentiary trail or a primary-source quote proving a high-school friendship [1] [2] [3]. To resolve the question definitively would require a direct transcript, video clip, or original Owens episode citation showing the exact phrasing and timeframe, none of which appears in the provided materials [5].