Allison Holker has broken her silence for the first time this year.
The widow of Stephen “tWitch” Boss shared an emotional and impactful video message to Instagram.
Holker lost her husband to suicide on December 13th. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Allison Holker Breaks Her Silence On Stephen “tWitch” Boss
On December 10, three days prior to his death, the couple celebrated their ninth wedding anniversary.
His death was a complete and utter shock to the world.
Holker began the video by thanking her and tWitch’s fans.
“I just want to say thank you for all the love and support you’ve sent to me and my family at this time. It has been very challenging and emotional, but you guys have brought so much hope and inspiration to us by sharing stories and memories and moments and different ways that Stephen impacted your life,” she said. “It’s brought us so much hope and inspiration, and he was someone who was just beautiful and he lived his life from love and he made you feel a certain way.”
Allison Thanks Fans For Support During “Challenging & Emotional” Time
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This is the first time in 2023 that Holker has addressed the tragic passing of the former ‘Ellen Show’ DJ. Her message comes one week after her family held a memorial service for tWitch in which his famous friends and colleagues attended.
Ellen DeGeneres, Andy Lassner, Derek Hough, AJ McLean, Wayne Brady and more attended the emotional memorial.
Holker went on to explain her family’s purpose during this difficult time.
“My family and I have always said that we wanted to make sure our purpose was looked out by bringing joy to people joy to people’s homes you know from dance or love and that’s not gonna change for us. It’s gonna feel a little bit different, but we know that’s our purpose and we’ll still do that to this day,” Holker said tearfully. “And I hope that we can remember the feeling that he gave us and remember that we can still move from there. We can still move and choose love and we can still choose grace and we can still choose kindness and I will always be there for you guys. And I appreciate you guys being there for us at this moment.”
Allison Urges Fans To Remember How Special & Impactful They Are
Holker and tWitch shared two biological children together and daughter, Weslie, from Holker’s previous relationship. tWitch went on to adopt Weslie as his own.
Holker concluded her emotional ‘Thank You’ message stating, “So, thank you. And, I hope you guys remember how special you are and how much of an impact you make around the world and continue to move from there. We love you guys.”
tWitch was only 40 years old at the time of his death.
Two days before he took his own life, he shared a video of him and Holker dancing in front of the Christmas tree to Alicia Keys’ “December Back 2 June.”
They both appeared extremely joyful and happy while dancing together.
