After Allison Holker caught flak for a current interview in regards to the dying of husband Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the couple’s daughter Weslie Fowler went on the protection in an Instagram Dwell stream.
Weslie, 16 — Holker’s daughter from a earlier relationship, whom Boss later adopted — refuted assertions that Holker known as Boss a drug addict.
“My mother by no means mentioned that Stephen was an addict,” Weslie mentioned, as seen in clips shared by The Shade Room on Instagram. “However when you’ve two years after someone dedicated suicide to take a seat right here and query each interplay you had, each single factor they did, clearly my mother’s like, perhaps I ought to have paid extra consideration…”
Weslie additionally defined why her mother requested Boss’s family members to signal NDAs after his dying. “My mother requested for NDAs to be signed after we had been seeing Stephen’s physique, as a result of God forbid someone that went to that took a photograph and put it on the web or shared it with someone else,” she mentioned. “That’s the kind of issues NDAs are for. It’s not so you possibly can by no means speak about Stephen, you possibly can’t ever speak about you grieving him, you possibly can’t put up about it, that’s not what it’s.”
At one other a part of the livestream, Weslie refuted claims that Holker didn’t let Boss’s mom, Connie Boss Alexander, see his physique for 3 weeks. “Everyone who needed to see the physique had entry to that info,” Weslie mentioned. “[Alexander] might have utterly on her personal phrases gone and seen him. My mother wasn’t withholding info.”
And Weslie mentioned she feels “disrespected” by members of Boss’s household. “They’ve gone on social media, saying that blood’s thicker than no matter, and that’s a direct dig at me and my mother,” she mentioned. “And if you happen to don’t see me as Stephen’s daughter, that’s cool. Like, take it the way you need. I do know for a proven fact that’s by no means how he noticed it, and it’s actually simply hurtful.”
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The teenager’s feedback come after Holker’s interview with Individuals and forward of the discharge of Holker’s memoir This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Gentle. To Individuals, the previous Dancing With the Stars professional recalled discovering a stash of medicine in Boss’s closet after his December 2022 dying.
“It was a very triggering second for me as a result of there have been a variety of issues I found in our closet that I didn’t know existed,” Holker mentioned. “It was very alarming to me to study that there was a lot taking place that I had no clue [about]. It was a very scary second in my life to determine that out, nevertheless it additionally helped me course of that he was going by means of a lot and he was hiding a lot, and there will need to have been a variety of disgrace in that.”
Alexander was one of many members of the family who spoke out in regards to the interview. “The current publications spreading untruths about Stephen have crossed each line of decency,” she mentioned in an announcement, per CNN. “As his mom, I cannot let these accusations go unanswered. We won’t stand by whereas his identify and legacy are tarnished. He doesn’t deserve this, and the youngsters don’t deserve this.”
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