SPEAKING OUT

tWitch’s Mom Blasts His Widow Over ‘Misleading and Hurtful Claims’

The widow of Stephen “tWitch” Boss has been promoting her new memoir, which contains dark secrets she says he was hiding.

The mother of Stephen “tWitch” Boss says she can no longer remain silent after his widow, Allison Holker, made a number of bombshell claims about him in her new memoir.

Holker’s book entitled This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light is set to be released next month and details her life with the beloved dancer and DJ prior to his death by suicide in 2022.

Holker, who started dating Boss after they both starred in Season 7 of So You Think You Can Dance, told People magazine that she found a shoebox of drugs in her husband’s closet after his death and claimed he detailed in his journal about having been sexually abused as a child.

Connie Boss Alexander wrote in an Instagram post on Thursday that publications “spreading untruths have crossed every line of decency.”

“Our family is absolutely appalled by the misleading and hurtful claims made about my son, Stephen Boss,” she wrote.

The wife of the longtime Ellen DeGeneres Show DJ, who ended his life in Dec. 2022, opened up to People this week about her shock at finding drugs that she says he was hiding from her.

“It was a really scary moment in my life to figure that out,” Holker said, “but it also helped me process that he was going through so much and he was hiding so much, and there must have been a lot of shame in that.”

Although Boss Alexander didn’t mention Holker by name, it was apparent that she was responding to the controversy that the professional dancer had sparked.

“For the last two years, I have remained quiet and away from the public eye to protect my family,” she said. “My primary focus has been on healing and attempting to remain connected to my grandchildren. But when I read these dreadful claims about my baby, our beloved Stephen, I realized I could not stay silent any longer. Our family will ensure his name and memory are protected, and we are committed to defending his honor.”

Other people close to Boss have already slammed Holker more explicitly.

“This whole thing made me sad. He’s gone. Why tear apart his name?,” Kelly Gibson, a dancer who appeared on Ellen, said on Instagram. “I was fully supportive about you moving in and being happy but this paycheck was not worth disgracing his name.”

“I’ll always love you. Just trying to help people feel safe and ask for support,” Holker wrote back.

A dancer who appeared alongside Holker on So You Think You Can Dance, Courtney Ann Platt, made an Instagram post slamming the interview and memoir.

“This is by far the most tacky, classless, opportunistic act I have ever seen in my entire life,” she wrote. “This smear campaign for a buck is absolutely not what he would have ever wanted. No matter how bad he was hurting. Not for second. You’re a living, breathing bulldozer.”

Dré Rose, Boss’ brother, shared Platt’s post on his own account, writing: “No lies told.”

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Liam ArchackiNews Reporter

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