Allison Holker’s eldest daughter is fed up with her stepdad Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss’ family, friends, and fans trash-talking her momma!
Over the past week, the professional dancer has been facing a lot of backlash after she dropped some shocking claims about her late husband while talking to People about her upcoming memoir This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light. Allison claimed she discovered a “cornucopia” of illicit drugs hidden away in shoe boxes after he died by suicide two years ago — more than the pot she knew he smoked. And then the most devastating reveal? He wrote in journals about being molested by a male figure as a child.
Related: Ellen Producer Doesn’t Buy Allison Holker’s Revelations About Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss
Following the interview, his family, friends, and fans slammed Allison. Stephen’s mom, Connie Boss Alexander, said his loved ones were “absolutely appalled by the misleading and hurtful claims.” The family is now “preparing to fight back” any allegations made about the Ellen DJ in her forthcoming book.
Allison insisted her “only intention” with her book is to raise awareness for anyone with similar struggles with substance abuse and mental health, as she believes “he would want to have his story told if it meant saving even one life.” Yet many still aren’t in the Dancing With the Stars alum’s corner. However, she does have one person on her side right now — her 16-year-old daughter Weslie! The teen just fiercely came to her mom’s defense! Buckle up! There is a lot to cover!
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Online Hate
On Friday, Weslie went on Instagram Live to clear the air about the ongoing family drama. She began by saying she is tired of her and her mom receiving “hate comments” all the time:
“I just feel think things need to be addressed and I would rather it come from me to defend my family than anybody else because I feel like it’s important. 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. 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.”
Regardless of your opinions about the current controversy, no one should be sending hate online to a teenager. That is so messed up.
According to Weslie, she was never legally adopted by Stephen, but he “literally raised” her since she was a baby. That is her father, no matter what, so the fact that she’s been getting negative comments because he died has been very “hurtful” to her. She explained:
“I get that my relationship with Stephen seems complicated, but this man raised me my entire life — since I was 1. 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. 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.”
Oof…
Although some people feel the teen shouldn’t speak out about what’s happening, she feels she needs to:
“I see people saying it’s not my place because I’m not his biological daughter, but he never made me feel like anything besides his daughter — and I think that speaks to who he was. Nobody’s sitting up here trying to bash him, like, he was a good person.”
Family Feud
Of course, this whole situation is very complicated. This is her family she’s talking about here, so she wants to try to “be respectful to everybody.” But at the same time, she’s “so over” how Stephen’s family has been treating Allison:
“These 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 claimed she only saw the Boss family “once or twice a year” when the hip-hop dancer was alive since they lived in another state. But since his death, she and her siblings, Maddox and Zaia, have seen them more now than ever before, all thanks to her mom.
“But, you guys have to understand that it’s because they live in another state and we literally live in another state. 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.”
Now, however, Weslie is done. She refuses to have a relationship with Stephen’s family because she feels “disrespected by them.” She continued:
“They’ve gone on social media saying that ‘Blood’s thicker than water,’ and that’s a direct [hit to] me and my mom. 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.”
That’s sad to hear that Weslie no longer wants to remain in communication with them. But can you blame her, given what has transpired over the last couple of days? This is her mother that they’ve slammed…
The Funeral NDAs
As for the NDA claims? Weslie also addressed that issue in her Live. In case you missed it, Courtney Ann Platt, who appeared on season 4 of So You Think You Can Dance with tWitch, alleged that Allison forced everyone to “sign some weird NDA” before they could “attend his funeral” in 2022 – including Connie. However, Weslie said the nondisclosure agreement was necessary to make sure no one took a photo of her dad’s body during the service:
“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 wake, 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.”
Sadly, you know there’s a chance that could happen these days. Awful. Weslie stressed that the NDA wasn’t meant so no one could “talk about Stephen” but as a precaution:
“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.”
That said, the teen claimed Allison was “lenient” with her NDA request because “she understands at the end of the day this is family.” This isn’t the first time her parents have handed out NDAs, either! Weslie alleged that Stephen forced everyone who “attended our events” to sign NDAs, adding:
“But now, just because it’s my mom handing the paper, it’s different and it’s just annoying.”
Ultimately, what was “supposed to be” a “beautiful” day honoring Stephen turned out to be “less than that,” Weslie expressed. Instead, the whole thing became one big family fight:
“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.”
Heartbreaking…
Drug Addiction Claims
Weslie went on to slam the claims that Allison said Stephen had a drug addiction. She fired back:
“My mom never said that Stephen was an addict. He would be open and vulnerable about smoking weed. Also my mom isn’t calling him a terrible person for smoking weed. But when you have two years after somebody committed suicide to sit here and question every interaction you had, every single thing they did, obviously my mom’s like, maybe I should have paid more attention to him smoking a lot of weed.”
Despite what some may think, her daughter insisted the television personality is not “money hungry” or seeking “more fame” by dropping these confessions:
“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.”
Last Thoughts
At the end of the day, Weslie begged everyone to “leave the family alone.” Getting a little choked up, she pleaded:
“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? 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. 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.”
It is so sad that Weslie is dealing with so much hate at this time. No kid should have to go through that, especially when they’re still grieving their parent. Watch her entire video about the messy book drama (below):
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