Mrs Trump has worked on addiction issues as part of her ‘Be Best’ campaign. The event is part of a convocation series and was organised by conservative commentator Eric Bolling. The former Fox News Channel host, whose son died last year of a drug overdose, said the First Lady “immediately said yes” and was “all for it.”
Mr Bolling said: “‘How do you want to handle it? I can do an interview with you.
“She said she’d like to do prepared remarks. I said ‘How do you feel about questions?’
“She said, ‘Time permitting, absolutely. I’m all for it.”
Donald Trump delivered a convocation speech at the Vines Centre on the Liberty campus in January 2016 while he was running for the Presidency and now his wife will speak in the same space.
Mrs Trump’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisholm confirmed she will engage in the Q&A session when she visits Liberty’s Christian conservative college campus in Lynchburg, Virginia.
The First Lady will be joined by Dianna Hart, the mother of pop singer Demi Lovato, whose battles with drug addiction have been well-documented.
Also at the event will be President Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security and Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Melania’s public speaking is usually written and read from teleprompters, so she is not often heard off-the-cuff.
The last time she fielded unexpected questions was in her ABC interview during her solo tour of Africa.
In the interview she revealed she does not always agree with her husband and is not afraid to tell him so.
She was also asked why she wore the controversial jacket that read “I really don’t care” whilst visiting children who had been separated from their families at the Mexico border.
She said: “I wore the jacket to go on the plane and off the plane and it was for the people and the left-wing media who are criticising me.
“I want to show them I don’t care.”
The jacket attracted much attention at the time with much speculation as to the meaning of the words.