Following the broken heart from learning her husband died by suicide, Allison Holker got a second punch after his death. This time in the bank account.
On top of the tragedy of losing her husband of nine years Stephen “tWitch” Boss in 2022 — and his financial support of the family — the mom of three was also hit with a MAJOR tax bill! She says it’s her late husband’s fault — because he spent so “recklessly on drugs”! Damn…
In her new memoir This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light, the 36-year-old opens up about finding a “cornucopia” of drugs allegedly hidden away by tWitch in their closet. She also opened up about an “ayahuasca journey” he “never fully escaped” before dying by suicide. And according to her, his drug expenditure really racked up. She wrote:
“It’s a misconception that I inherited Stephen’s wealth. The reality is quite different. He had given away substantial sums of money to family and friends and spent recklessly on drugs and his weird art collections. The tax bill that he left me with for the year he died was $1 million.”
Holy S**T! That’s a lot of money! Not to mention for a now-single mom of three kids!
Allison claimed they “always maintained separate bank accounts” — something that allowed him to ruin his own finances without her ever knowing. She said paying off his tax bill completely “depleted his accounts”:
“I had been under the impression that the arrangement was working just fine. He managed his income, and I managed mine, and we divvied up the bills. Easy-peasy. Or so I thought.”
That’s really rough… The only silver lining was that sorting out the financial situation “provided a distraction” from grieving for the widow, but she made it clear she’s “still in the trenches” money-wise:
“If he had known how much of our hard-earned money would go to pay lawyers’ fees to clean up the mess he left me with, would it have made any difference? I’d like to believe it would have. Stephen left me with double the work, double the noise, double the hardships, double the confusion — and half the household earnings.”
Yikes.
Last month, Allison announced that she will be donating all the proceeds from her memoir to Move with Kindness, the foundation she set up in tWitch’s honor. She made the declaration after being hit with a wave of backlash over telling the late Ellen DeGeneres Show alum’s personal secrets in a book she’d be making money off of.
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If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, help is available. Consider contacting the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988, by calling, texting, or chatting, or go to 988lifeline.org
For resources on mental health, visit https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-help
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