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Widow of Stephen "tWitch" Boss Exposes Him In Memoir
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1/28/2025
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The widow of TV personality Stephen, Twitch Boss, is being dragged online for exploiting
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her husband's death in her new memoir, where she exposes his darkest secrets.
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Now, his friends and family say she's a money-hungry opportunist.
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My best advice is to find a dance partner that you trust and you love. And for me,
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that's my beautiful wife, Allison.
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Stephen, a professional dancer who appeared as both a contestant and judge on the TV show
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So You Think You Can Dance, is best known as the dancing DJ on the long-running Ellen DeGeneres
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show. Tragically, Stephen took his own life in late 2022, sending shockwaves through the
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community of fans he'd gained throughout his six years on the Ellen show.
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Twitch, you want to know my favorite thing that we've added?
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What's your favorite thing?
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It's you.
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Today, Stephen's widow, Allison Holker, and her upcoming memoir titled,
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This Far My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light, have created major controversy.
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But it's not what's inside her memoir that's making people furious.
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It's what Allison revealed about her late husband while promoting the book.
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Allison, who married Stephen in 2013 and is the mother of his two children,
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waited two years after her husband's suicide to share her grief experience.
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I hope by sharing my story, I can bring some comfort to those who have also felt loss
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and are trying to navigate through it," she wrote on Instagram.
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However, in an exclusive interview with People magazine,
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Allison revealed some shocking private details about Stephen that she learned after his death.
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First, she claimed that she uncovered a cornucopia of illicit substances hidden
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inside his shoeboxes while picking out an outfit for him for the funeral.
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It was very alarming to me to learn that there was so much happening that I had no
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clue about it was a really scary moment. But it also helped me process that he was
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going through so much, and he was hiding so much, and there must have been a lot of shame in that.
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He was wrestling with a lot inside himself, and he was trying to self-medicate and
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cope with all those feelings because he didn't want to put it on anyone."
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Later, Allison made another vague claim about her late husband,
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revealing she had read Stephen's journals to gain a better perspective of where he was in life
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and the type of things he was struggling with. She added,
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Reading through his journals, you realize he went through a lot as a child and never faced it."
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But Stephen's family and close friends were not buying Allison's story. Stephen's mother,
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Connie Boss Alexander, posted a statement to her Instagram denying the misleading claims
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about her son, calling Allison's statements untrue and appalling. Friends of Stephen chimed in,
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calling Allison tacky and opportunistic.
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Whether any of it is true or not is actually beside the point. This is how you protect his
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children from any further humiliation, hurt, and despair? This is what you want them to
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remember about him? asked fellow dancer Courtney Ann Platt. Another friend of Stephen's publicly
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wondered why Allison didn't handle this privately, rather than airing it all out in a magazine.
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Allison swiftly took to her Instagram account to share a lengthy response to the explosive backlash.
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She defended her choices by insisting that everything was done from a place of love.
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Hopefully, you'll see my intention is to celebrate the love and life I shared with
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Stephen and our three beautiful children, and also the more complex aspects of both of our lives.
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But shortly after Allison's response, those closest to Stephen dropped a bombshell. Stephen's
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cousin, Danielle, revealed that Allison had forced Stephen's family members to sign an NDA
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in order to attend his funeral. Danielle also countered Allison's claims of her late husband's
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drug use by sharing reports that no illicit substances were found in Stephen's system
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after his autopsy. So let me ask the question, who stands to gain from this? Is it the world,
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or is it you? Because nobody benefits from you supposedly dropping dimes about your late
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husband. So is Allison's memoir really just an attempt to profit off of her husband's tragic
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passing? According to news outlets, it seems likely. TMZ reported that the NDA Stephen's
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family members were forced to sign insurers that Allison would be the sole beneficiary of
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any financial gain from his name, and restricts his family from profiting from interviews, books,
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articles, or media projects related to him. Allison's memoir debacle is a reminder that
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even when it comes to public figures, some things are better kept private.
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