Widow of Stephen "tWitch" Boss Exposes Him In Memoir

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00:00The widow of TV personality Stephen, Twitch Boss, is being dragged online for exploiting

00:04her husband's death in her new memoir, where she exposes his darkest secrets.

00:08Now, his friends and family say she's a money-hungry opportunist.

00:11My best advice is to find a dance partner that you trust and you love. And for me,

00:16that's my beautiful wife, Allison.

00:18Stephen, a professional dancer who appeared as both a contestant and judge on the TV show

00:23So You Think You Can Dance, is best known as the dancing DJ on the long-running Ellen DeGeneres

00:28show. Tragically, Stephen took his own life in late 2022, sending shockwaves through the

00:33community of fans he'd gained throughout his six years on the Ellen show.

00:36Twitch, you want to know my favorite thing that we've added?

00:38What's your favorite thing?

00:39It's you.

00:46Today, Stephen's widow, Allison Holker, and her upcoming memoir titled,

00:50This Far My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light, have created major controversy.

00:55But it's not what's inside her memoir that's making people furious.

00:59It's what Allison revealed about her late husband while promoting the book.

01:02Allison, who married Stephen in 2013 and is the mother of his two children,

01:07waited two years after her husband's suicide to share her grief experience.

01:10I hope by sharing my story, I can bring some comfort to those who have also felt loss

01:15and are trying to navigate through it," she wrote on Instagram.

01:18However, in an exclusive interview with People magazine,

01:20Allison revealed some shocking private details about Stephen that she learned after his death.

01:25First, she claimed that she uncovered a cornucopia of illicit substances hidden

01:29inside his shoeboxes while picking out an outfit for him for the funeral.

01:33It was very alarming to me to learn that there was so much happening that I had no

01:36clue about it was a really scary moment. But it also helped me process that he was

01:40going through so much, and he was hiding so much, and there must have been a lot of shame in that.

01:44He was wrestling with a lot inside himself, and he was trying to self-medicate and

01:49cope with all those feelings because he didn't want to put it on anyone."

01:51Later, Allison made another vague claim about her late husband,

01:55revealing she had read Stephen's journals to gain a better perspective of where he was in life

01:59and the type of things he was struggling with. She added,

02:01Reading through his journals, you realize he went through a lot as a child and never faced it."

02:05But Stephen's family and close friends were not buying Allison's story. Stephen's mother,

02:09Connie Boss Alexander, posted a statement to her Instagram denying the misleading claims

02:14about her son, calling Allison's statements untrue and appalling. Friends of Stephen chimed in,

02:19calling Allison tacky and opportunistic.

02:22Whether any of it is true or not is actually beside the point. This is how you protect his

02:26children from any further humiliation, hurt, and despair? This is what you want them to

02:30remember about him? asked fellow dancer Courtney Ann Platt. Another friend of Stephen's publicly

02:34wondered why Allison didn't handle this privately, rather than airing it all out in a magazine.

02:39Allison swiftly took to her Instagram account to share a lengthy response to the explosive backlash.

02:44She defended her choices by insisting that everything was done from a place of love.

02:48Hopefully, you'll see my intention is to celebrate the love and life I shared with

02:51Stephen and our three beautiful children, and also the more complex aspects of both of our lives.

02:56But shortly after Allison's response, those closest to Stephen dropped a bombshell. Stephen's

03:01cousin, Danielle, revealed that Allison had forced Stephen's family members to sign an NDA

03:06in order to attend his funeral. Danielle also countered Allison's claims of her late husband's

03:11drug use by sharing reports that no illicit substances were found in Stephen's system

03:15after his autopsy. So let me ask the question, who stands to gain from this? Is it the world,

03:22or is it you? Because nobody benefits from you supposedly dropping dimes about your late

03:29husband. So is Allison's memoir really just an attempt to profit off of her husband's tragic

03:34passing? According to news outlets, it seems likely. TMZ reported that the NDA Stephen's

03:39family members were forced to sign insurers that Allison would be the sole beneficiary of

03:43any financial gain from his name, and restricts his family from profiting from interviews, books,

03:48articles, or media projects related to him. Allison's memoir debacle is a reminder that

03:53even when it comes to public figures, some things are better kept private.

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