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Allison Holker is facing the wrath of Stephen "tWitch" Boss' family and friends after writing a memoir detailing her late husband's alleged substance abuse problems and mental health issues — including pages from his diary.
Holker — who was married to the dancer and Ellen DJ until his death by suicide in December 2022 – got candid in a recent interview with People about her upcoming memoir, This Far, claiming, in part, that she found a "cornucopia" of drugs hidden in shoeboxes while attempting to pick out tWitch's outfit for his funeral.
The interview goes into more detail, including his final words to daughter Weslie, whom he dropped off at school the morning of his death. ("I wish I could be your Superman," Holker recalled him telling her daughter, now 16.) She and tWitch also shared kids Maddox, 8, and Zaia, 5.
tWitch's family members were horrified at Holker's revelations — and wasted little time in sharing their candid thoughts via social media.
tWitch's cousin, Elle, not only slammed Holker's portrayal of her cousin — "he wasn't an addict ... he smoked weed and was actively trying to quit," she tweeted soon after the People interview dropped — she claimed that the whole family had to sign NDAs to attend tWitch's funeral.
"I'm so tired of keeping my f***king mouth shut bro. You did our family so mf dirty," Elle wrote via X (formerly known as Twitter). "Yeah idgaf about an NDA. This crazy woman made me and his actual family including his mother sign an NDA just to even attend the funeral."
tWitch's cousin further alleged that Holker has "been trying to tarnish his legacy and refuses to let the Boss family see the children. Only to exploit and LIE on my cousin. Hell no."
Yeah idgaf about an NDA.
This crazy woman made me and his actual family including sign an NDA just to even attend the funeral. She's been trying to tarnish his legacy and refuses to let the Boss family see the children.
Only to exploit and LIE on my cousin. Hell no. https://t.co/lfTE4xWxgM
tWitch's close friend and former Knicks dancer Courtney Ann Platt echoed Elle's comments about the alleged NDAs in her own remarks, pointing out the supposed hypocrisy.
"We all had to sign some weird NDA to attend his funeral (even his own mother who you've treated like garbage this entire time and let's just remember you wouldn't have even had a husband if it wasn't for her) not to share anything or ruin his name as if that was on anyone's mind in the first place and here you go and write a book with all the dirty laundry smearing his name and attempting to dim the bright loyal, loving, light that was your husband, my friend," Platt wrote via Instagram.
Platt added: "What a joke. Yes, he took his own life which is a fact all of us still can't fathom and he was clearly having mental health issues, hurting so deeply and this is your example of empathy? Of your love?"
tWitch's brothers, for their part, reposted Platt's lengthy instagram upload onto their own Stories, per Page Six.
Though Holker has yet to publicly respond to tWitch's family and friends' accusations, she did react to one dancer's claim that she has "disgraced" tWitch's name in the memoir and interview.
"This whole thing made me sad. He's gone. Why tear apart this name?" Dancer Kelly Gibson asked in the comments of People's Instagram post of the interview. "I was fully supportive about you moving [on] and being happy but this paycheck was not worth disgracing his name."
Holker replied: "I'll always love you. Just trying to help people feel safe to ask for help and support."
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, text "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or go to 988lifeline.org.
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