Allison Holker is sharing for the first time that there were two sides to her late husband. There was Stephen Boss , the man she knew intimately who would become her life partner and the father of her two children. And then there was Stephen "tWitch" Boss , the "entertainer" the public grew to love.
But in a new interview on Taylor Lautner and Tay Lautner's podcast, The Squeeze , Holker shares that he wasn't a natural extrovert. Fans certainly saw him that way, given his high-energy personality as the beloved DJ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and his countless dance videos and inspirational messages on social media. But that personality didn't come naturally to him, and in the end, it took its toll.
Boss died by suicide in December 2022. He was 40. "So, Stephen.
It's interesting. I knew him as Stephen. A lot of people knew him as 'tWitch.
' Very two different humans," Holker prefaced her answer when asked if "tWitch's mental health struggles were always part of his life or a more recent challenge. "He wore this character of 'tWitch,' and it did become a part of who he was but that extroverted personality was not natural for him. So, when he would go out as 'tWitch' and make sure he's spreading all this love and joy and positivity and be dancing all the time for people -- an entertainer, and such -- it would drain his energy.
And he would have to come home and he would always tell me ...
our home was his safe place. So, he'd come home and have to really recharge his battery." But .
