Allison Holker's Daughter Weslie Defends Her Amid Backlash Over Book Release

Allison Holker's daughter Weslie has leaped to her defense amid the severe backlash she received after she revealed her late husband Stephen "tWitch" Boss's alleged drug addiction and mental health struggles in a recent interview.

Holker also announced that she wrote a memoir, "This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light," which will be released on February 4. In the book, she sheds light on her relationship with tWitch, his addiction and the things he battled with in his lifetime.

After Holker's interview made news headlines, she faced criticism on social media, and some members of tWitch's family called her out. tWitch's mom, Connie Boss Alexander, also made a statement on social media vowing to defend his honor amid "misleading and hurtful" claims about him.

On Friday, Weslie shared a video on her Instagram page in which she spoke about several issues that have dominated the news since her mom's interview with PEOPLE Magazine.

The 16-year-old, who Holker has from a previous relationship, said per Us Weekly, "My stepdad's been gone for two years and I'm still getting hate comments. It's just complicated and for no reason. It's not just a social media gig; this is literally my life."

Weslie said she was "sick of getting hate comments" and seeing her mom "get hate for literally losing the person that she loves."

She also spoke about her younger siblings, Maddox, 8, and Zaia, 5, saying, "This is their dad — this is who they're gonna grow up and they're gonna see all this on social media that's so hurtful."

The teenager admitted that her relationship with tWitch seemed complicated but said he "raised me my entire life — since I was 1."

She shared, "I have a biological dad [and] I have a relationship with him, but Stephen was the person that raised me. He literally raised me and it's hurtful to see... so many new stories. It's so much more complicated and I don't know how to explain it well."

Weslie added, "This is my dad, this is not, like, a joke to me. For 13 years, my parents were together, and for 13 years he was the person that I would go to about everything. He's the person that I would cry to."

She also shared some of her experiences with tWitch but expressed sadness that she was now "getting hate for him leaving," which hurt her.

Holker's oldest daughter explained why she spoke out amid the backlash her mom was facing. She said, "I see people saying it's not my place because I'm not his [tWitch's] biological daughter, but he never made me feel like anything besides his daughter — and I think that speaks to who he was."

She continued, "Nobody's sitting up here trying to bash him, like, he was a good person. I'm still trying to be respectful to everybody. I'm just so over, for instance, his family, everyone's headlining now — and these are big players in my life and big players in my siblings' life and my mom's life."

Weslie said her relationship with tWitch's family members is now complicated after they spoke against her mom following her interview.

She said, "There are all people I've grown up with. And to see them now ... it's like, I don't know. I'm trying to be respectful but it's complicated because I speak to Stephen's mom weekly at some point."

Weslie revealed that she only saw tWitch's family "once or twice a year" while he was alive and explained that it was due to them living in different states.

She added, "It's not, like, we're neighbors. It's not, like, we could just see them whenever we wanted, and now my mom's constantly making the effort so the kids are a part of their lives. I don't make the effort, but that's just how I am."

The teenager claimed that she feels "disrespected" by tWitch's family and doesn't want to be in communication with them anymore.

She alleged, "They've gone on social media saying that 'Blood's thicker than water,' and that's a direct [hit to] me and my mom."

Weslie added, "And if you don't see me as Stephen's daughter, that's cool, take it how you want. I know for a fact that's never how he saw it, and it's literally just hurtful. ... I've slowly started to remove myself from [them] because they don't make me feel comfortable, and my mom's the one making the effort and feeling like it's a need and a necessity to see them because she cares."

tWitch's cousin, Darielle, claimed that Holker made the Boss family sign NDAs before his funeral, but Weslie shed more light on the accusation, stressing that it was done to prevent people from sharing pictures of tWitch's body.

She explained, "Y'all love to argue about the NDAs. But in one day, we had an open casket, like, viewing for Stephen. We had a funeral, and then we had a week, and my mom asked for NDAs to be signed when we were seeing Stephen's body because God forbid somebody that went to that took a photo of Stephen and put it on the internet or shared it with somebody else.

Weslie added, "That's the type of thing that NDAs are for. It's not so you can never talk about Stephen. I'm fed up because NDAs are so important, and if you guys don't agree, that's cool. I'm grateful for my mom making sure that everybody signed NDAs, and she put up that rule."

According to Weslie, tWitch asked people to sign NDAs for his events when he was alive. Hence, she couldn't understand why there was so much fuss about her mom asking for the NDAs, though she tried to be nice.

She also said, "But now, just because it's my mom handing the paper, it's different and it’s just annoying. Like, for that whole day was supposed to be beautiful, and instead, it was less than that. We were gonna say our goodbyes, and instead, people were yelling at each other and bashing my mom and, like, that's a day that's taken away from her — she can't remember it as being the day that we all wanted to be because his family was making it otherwise."

Following her interview, some accused Holker of being "money-hungry" or seeking fame with her revelations. However, her daughter denounced those claims in her video.

She said, "That's not how my mom is. Trust me when I say my mom is good she doesn’t need [money]. It's just disappointing. ... My mom's made her efforts [with his family]. She's tried for as long as she could, but this is the kind of turning point where it's like, this stops like, it's beyond, just like, trying to maintain a relationship now it's like y'all burn bridges and literally it's OK."

An emotional Weslie also urged her followers to let the family be. She said, "I'm not a person to sit up here and cry. I'm not going to be here and get emotional. But like, y'all could not just leave somebody passing away and leave the family alone?"

Weslie added, "Like, Oh my gosh, you guys just have to add to it for what, like, I don't know, and it's just it's disappointing because if all of you say that you held him in such high regard, like, this is not the type of family dynamic we had and whatever y'all want to push on social media, like, I'm gonna grow up seeing it like my siblings are gonna grow up seeing it."

Allison Holker's daughter concluded, "Also, they're gonna have to form their own opinion of who their dad was and we only speak about him in such a beautiful light. I loved him. I have nothing negative to say about him."