Allison Holker Receives support from Jenna Dewan Amid backlash for sharing details about the late husband Stephen “tWitch” Boss In her upcoming memoirs.

“I love you @allisonholker and sharing this will help others know how to reach out for help,” Dewan, 44, wrote via her Instagram Story on Tuesday, January 7, including a red heart emoji. Along with the message, the actress and dancer reposted a video clip from Holker’s interview with the people.

Holker, 36, spoke with the magazine about a story published on Tuesday about her book, This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Lightwhich details her life and Boss’s death by suicide in December 2022. Hours after the interview was published, Holker received backlash from some of Boss’s loved ones for speaking out about his personal life.

“Anyone who knows me, knows that I go straight to the source during a conflict and take care of my business.” Courtney Ann Plattwhich appeared on So you think you can dance alongside Holker, he wrote via Instagram on Tuesday. “But since there’s obviously no shame in being public, I haven’t said a word in two years but here I am. This is by far the most vulgar, classless and opportunistic act I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

Platt, 36, claimed she was a friend of the couple and noted how Holker discussed details from Boss’s life that had not been made public. “You are a living, breathing bulldozer,” Platt wrote. “Stick to your demons. Shame on you Alison, shame on your money-hungry team. Let my friend rest in peace and not your PR.”

boss’s brother, Dre RoseHe also claimed that there was tension between his family and Holker. “We have observed an alarming lack of communication and inclusion regarding children’s activities and well-being,” he wrote on Tuesday. “It is frustrating that their interactions with their grandmother and wider family have been noticeably limited.”

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Allison Holker is speaking out amid the backlash surrounding her decision to share personal details about her late husband Steven “tWitch” Boss in her upcoming memoir. On Tuesday, January 7, Holker, 36, gave a wide-ranging interview to People magazine about This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light, which examined her life and the death of her boss. […]

Holker has not yet addressed Platt and Rose’s comments. However, when a fellow dancer Kelly Gibson He wrote in the comments the people’He posted: “This whole thing made me sad. He’s gone. Why are you ripping that name down? That salary wasn’t worth insulting his name. I’ll always love you.” Just trying to help people feel safe to ask for help and support.

Us Weekly I reached out to Holker for comment.

In her interview on Tuesday, Holker spoke frankly about the matter Navigating life over the death of a president. (former DJ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show She died by suicide at the age of 40.) Just before Boss’s funeral, Holker shared that she had found a The “abundance” of drugs Including mushrooms, pills and “other items I had to look up on my phone” hidden in the president’s closet.

“It was an exciting moment for me, because there were a lot of things I discovered in our closet that I didn’t know existed,” she said. “It was very upsetting for me knowing there was so much going on that I had no idea [about]. It was a really scary moment in my life to find out, but it also helped me come to terms with what he was going through so much and was hiding so much, and there must have been a lot of shame in that.

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Allison Holker found closure after the death of her husband, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, by reading his diaries. “He was wrestling with a lot inside himself, and he was trying to self-medicate and deal with all those feelings because he didn’t want to put them on anyone because he loved everyone so much,” Holker, 36, told People magazine. Tuesday, […]

Holker explained that she knew Boss used marijuana, noting that he would smoke marijuana in the guest house at night after their children were asleep. (Holker and Boss Shared girls Wesley, 16, Zaya, 5, and son Maddox, 8.)

After his death, Holker turned to Bose’s memoirs. “He was wrestling with a lot inside himself, and he was trying to self-medicate and deal with all those feelings because he didn’t want to put them on anyone because he loved everyone so much,” she said. “He didn’t want others to bear his pain.”

In Boss’s entries, Holker shared that her late husband alluded to being sexually abused by a male figure in his childhood.

“Reading Stephen’s diaries, and even going back to the books he read and the things he would highlight and highlight, really gave me a better perspective on where he was in life and the kind of things he was struggling with,” she said. . “It made me feel so much compassion for him and sadness for all the pain he was going through.”

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