Allison Holker’s teenage daughter Weslie has come to her defense amid backlash she’s facing for asking mourners to sign an NDA at husband Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss’ funeral, following his 2022 suicide.
Weslie, 16, used Instagram Live on Friday to address the cyberbullying she and her 36-year-old mom — who has a new boyfriend — have received.
‘My stepdad’s been gone for two years and I’m still getting hate comments,’ she said in a clip that’s now posted on her profile.
Addressing the non-disclosure agreements in her social media video, Weslie said, ‘Y’all love to argue about the NDAs. But on one day, we had an open casket 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.’
She explained, ‘That’s the type of thing that NDAs are for. It’s not so you can never talk about Stephen.’
Allison Holker ‘s teenage daughter Weslie has come to her defense amid backlash she’s facing for revealing details surrounding her husband Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss’ 2022 suicide in her upcoming book
‘My stepdad’s been gone for two years and I’m still getting hate comments,’ Weslie, 16, said in a clip that’s posted on her Instagram profile; pictured with siblings Maddox and Zaia
Regarding her mother, the protective daughter continued, ‘She understands at the end of the day, like, this is family.
‘So y’all want to disrespect her [while] she’s still nice, she’s still kind, she’s still forgiving, but you have to know, like, even when Stephen was alive people that attended our events, they would have to sign NDAs.
‘But now, just because it’s my mom handing the paper, it’s different and it’s just annoying.’
Weslie also said the day of the funeral did not turn out the way she and her mother had hoped: ‘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 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.’
Elsewhere in the long-winded statement, she shared, ‘It’s just complicated and for no reason. It’s not just a social media gig; this is literally my life. I’m so sick of getting hate comments and seeing my mom get hate for literally losing the person that she loves.’
‘And I have siblings. 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,’ she said of her eight-year-old brother Maddox and five-year-old sister Zaia.
Holker’s This Far memoir was announced in September and has a February 5 release date.
Weslie said in her recording that she was never legally adopted by Boss, but insisted that he ‘literally raised’ her from the age of one.
Holker’s This Far memoir was announced in September and has a February 5 release date
Holker and Boss, who was well-known for his DJ gig on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, married in 2013.
‘I get that my relationship with Stephen seems complicated, but this man raised me my entire life — since I was one,’ Weslie said to the camera while dressed in an oversized gray hoodie.
‘I have a biological dad; 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,’ the high school student said in her rambling post.
With a mop of sandy blonde curls falling around her face, she passionately emphasized, ‘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. He would wake me up every morning, we’d get breakfast and he was the person I’d see when he’d get home from work. We lived in the same four walls and now I’m getting hate for him leaving — and I don’t get it. It’s hurtful.’
Fans have not held back in shaming Allison for choosing to air out her late spouse’s alleged addiction struggles and the alleged sexual abuse he endured, which she said she learned of from reading his journals.
Boss’ family is also ‘preparing to fight back’ over the forthcoming claims about him in her literary release.
Allison and tWitch tied the knot in 2013 and shared two kids in addition to Weslie, who Holker had with a previous partner
Allison is now a single parent to her three children, whom she celebrated the holidays with weeks ago
Weslie also defended her mother’s decision to include NDA paperwork in Stephen’s funeral proceesings
The former Dancing With The Stars pro went Instagram official with new beau, tech CEO Adam Edmunds, in November
A source close to the situation revealed to DailyMail.com, ‘tWitch’s family is preparing to fight back against Allison after she came out with those scathing allegations about him.
‘The family disapproves what she’s said and will be speaking out about the untruths.’
It was also noted that Stephen’s relatives ‘have not received an advanced copy’ of her book and ‘have to wait for the book to be released just like everyone else.’
‘Once the memoir comes out, the family plans on releasing another statement,’ the insider claimed. ‘They don’t believe she’s telling the full truth and rather, that she has been misleading the public.’
The source continued, ‘The family is fired up and won’t be sitting back much longer, especially after what she put them through.
‘They’re furious that they were not given an advanced copy let alone not given a heads up about what’s inside the book.’
It was also said that the family is not able to say much due to being ‘forced to sign’ the NDA following tWitch’s death on December 13, 2022.
