Jenna Dewan and Allison Holker on the set of Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss.
Getty Images (3)Allison Holker you get support Jenna Dewan during the retreat by sharing details about the late husband Stephen “tWitch” Manager in his future memory.
“Love @allisonholker and sharing this will help others know to reach out for help,” Dewan, 44, wrote on his Instagram Story on Tuesday, January 7, including a red heart emoji. Alongside the message, the actor and dancer also posted a video from Holker’s interview no People.
Holker, 36, spoke to the magazine in a story published on Tuesday about his book, So Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Lightdescribing her life and Boss’s death by suicide in December 2022. Hours after the interview was released, Holker received criticism from some of Boss’s loved ones for talking about her life.
“Anyone who knows me, knows that I go straight to the source in times of conflict and take care of my business,” Courtney Ann Plattwho came from So You Think You Can Dance alongside Holker, he wrote on Instagram on Tuesday. “But since it is clear that there is no shame in being in public, it has been two years since I said anything but here I go. This is the most insidious, classless, opportunistic act I have ever seen in my entire life.”
Platt, 36, said he was friends with them and revealed how Holker discussed details of Boss’s life that had not been disclosed. “He’s a living, breathing tractor,” Platt wrote. “Cling to your demons. Shame on you Allison, shame on your money hungry team. Let my friend rest in peace not your PR.”
Boss’s brother, Dr. Rosehe also said that there is disagreement between his family and Holker. “We have seen a disturbing lack of communication and inclusion in relation to children’s activities and welfare,” he wrote on Tuesday. “It is disappointing that their interaction with their grandmother, and the rest of the family is very little.”
Allison Holker is speaking out amid the controversy surrounding her decision to share personal details about her late husband Stephen “tWitch” Boss in her upcoming memoir. On Tuesday, January 7, Holker, 36, gave a wide-ranging interview to People about: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light, dealing with her life and Boss’s death. […]
Holker has not yet responded to Platt and Rose’s comments. However, when we are a dancer Kelly Gibson wrote in the comments of people’s post, “The whole thing made me sad. He’s gone. Why are you crossing this word? This salary was not worth dishonoring his name,” replied Holker, “I will always love you. Just trying to help people feel safe to ask for help and support. “
Us Weekly reached out to Holker for comment.
In his interview on Tuesday, Holker opened up about navigating life through Boss’s death. (The former DJ is on The Ellen DeGeneres Show died by suicide at age 40.) Shortly before Boss’s funeral, Holker shared that he found a “cornucopia” of drugs including mushrooms, pills and “other things I had to look up on my phone” hidden in Boss’s closet.
“It was a difficult time for me because I found many things in our room that I did not know,” she said. “It was very shocking to hear that there is so much going on that I can have [about]. It was a really scary time in my life to find that out, but it also helped me deal with a lot of what he was going through and he was very secretive, and there must have been a lot of shame in that.”
Allison Holker found closure after the death of husband Stephen “tWitch” Boss by reading his journals. “He was struggling with a lot of things inside himself, and he was trying to heal himself and deal with all those feelings because he didn’t want to put it on anyone because he loved everyone so much,” Holker, 36, told People on. tuesday, […]
Holker explained that he knew Boss used marijuana, noting that he smoked weed in the guest house at night while their children slept. (Holker and Boss have daughters Weslie, 16, and Zaia, 5, and son Maddox, 8.)
After his death, Holker turned to Boss’s journals. “He was struggling with many things inside himself, he was trying to heal himself and face all those feelings because he didn’t want to put them on anyone because he loved everyone,” she said. “He didn’t want other people to feel his pain.”
In Boss’s posts, Holker shared that her late husband talked about being sexually assaulted by a man in his childhood.
“Reading Stephen’s journals, even going back to the books he read and the things he highlighted and wrote, gave me a better idea of where he was in life and the kind of things he was going through,” she said. . “It made me have a lot of sympathy for him and sadness for all the pain he was carrying.”
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