Allison Holker’s Daughter Weslie Breaks Her Silence About ‘tWitch’ Boss Stephen’s Stepfather

Allison Holkerteenage daughter, Wesley Renaespeaks out about his “irreplaceable” relationship with his deceased stepfather Stephen “Twitch’s” boss. and addressing criticism from her family – from why she doesn’t use his last name to why her mom asked his family to sign a funeral NDA.

Over two years later The boss committed suicide in 2022, when she was 40 years old, online criticism of 36-year-old Holker – and what she chose to share about her late husband’s life and struggles – intensified as mother of three children is preparing to release his upcoming memoir, This Far: My story of love, loss and accepting the light in February.

In response, Holker’s 16-year-old daughter decided to address the claims against her family in a live video broadcast on television Instagram on Friday, January 10. Weslie, who Holker welcomed before her relationship with Boss, began the video about the late dancer by calling the “hatred” she and her mother experience baseless and “hurtful” towards her siblings, Holker and Boss’ children Maddox Laurel, 8, and Zaia, 5.

“My stepdad has been gone for two years and I still get hateful comments… it’s just complicated and for no reason because it’s not just a social media performance, it’s literally my life,” Weslie explained, adding that she is “sick “receiving hateful comments and seeing my mom hated for literally losing the person she loves.”

As for her relationship with her late stepfather, she said, “that’s my dad – it’s not a joke to me.”

“For 13 years my parents were together and for 13 years he was the person I went to for everything,” she said of Boss. “He’s a person who would make me cry. He woke me up every morning and we went to breakfast. This is the person I saw when he came home from work. We lived in the same four walls and now I’m starting to hate him for leaving and I don’t understand it. It’s painful.”

“And I guess I’m trying to describe our relationship because I see people saying it doesn’t belong here because I’m not his biological daughter, but he never made me feel like I was anything other than his daughter,” she continued. “I just think it speaks volumes about who he was and no one is sitting here and trying to crush him. He was a good man.”

As for why she doesn’t use Boss as her name on social media or in general, Weslie clarified that it has nothing to do with their father-daughter relationship. “My legal name isn’t even what I have,” she said. “It’s just my middle name because I don’t use the word ‘Boss’ or my last name and I never have.”

Weslie, her siblings, Holker and Boss were called the “Boss family” and “that is the name my siblings will have and will carry on,” she explained, “but even Stephen’s family, like his parents, do not have the Boss surname.

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In addition to her personal relationship with Boss and her mom, Weslie also addressed a recent claim by the deceased dancer’s family who alleged that Holker forced them to sign an NDA before they could attend his funeral.

“Basically, one day we were looking at Stephen’s open casket. We had a funeral and then we woke up and my mom asked us to sign NDAs while we looked at Stephen’s body because God forbid someone who went to that took a picture of Stephen and put it on the internet or shared it with someone else anyway – that’s what NDA contracts are for,” she explained.

“It’s not that you can never talk about Stephen, you can never talk about grieving him, you can’t post about it. This is not it. And with all the people saying this, I just feel like you’re uneducated,” Weslie continued, adding that she’s “fed up because NDAs are so important.”

“If you disagree, that’s fine. “I’m grateful my mother made sure everyone signed NDAs and she implemented this rule,” she said. “But regardless, some people didn’t even sign NDAs and my mom was understanding because at the end of the day she understands that this is family so you all want to disrespect her and she’s still nice, she’s still nice, she’s He still forgives.”

The current discussion around NDAs is “infuriating,” Weslie added, because “this whole day was supposed to be beautiful. But instead there was less of it. We were supposed to say goodbye, but instead people were yelling at each other and hitting my mom.

Elsewhere in the video, the teen also defended her mom against online criticism over the way she opened up about Boss. mental health and the fight against addictions before release It’s Far Away.

“My mother is called a murderer. They say she is hungry for money. They say he needs more fame. My mother is not like that,” she explained. “Trust me when I say my mom is good, she doesn’t need it.”

The 16-year-old ended her video by reiterating her love for Boss and asking for respect for the way her family is discussed online, especially because of her younger siblings.

“Whatever you want to post on social media, I will grow up watching it, my siblings will grow up watching it. They will also have to form their own opinion about who their dad was,” she said. “And we only talk about him in such a beautiful light. I loved him. I have nothing negative to say about him except that I think he made an unfortunate decision that cannot be explained.

“But that’s the point,” she said. “My siblings are strong children, and my mother raises them, raises them to be so strong. I’m myself now, but that’s how I was. They grow up with one parent and to see one parent be broken up is crazy. I don’t understand this. I don’t understand it because my mother is all we have.

“We have a different family, we have different people that we can turn to, but because of that, my mom is our rock,” she continued. “So just know that this is the type of person you tear down, who is quiet, and who hides everything on social media.”

As for sister Zaia and brother Maddox – who Weslie said are “getting to the age where they’re able to realize things” – she said: “I just don’t want social media battles to influence how they view things.” their dad or how they see themselves. their mom.

“They need their mom, and they’ve already lost one parent,” she said of her siblings. “They can’t lose another one.”

And despite concerns and criticism about Holker’s coverage of Boss in the media or her upcoming memoir, Weslie assured that “I have no intention of ever criticizing who Stephen was — it’s literally my mom telling her story and her story will be as well.” continued.”

Additionally, Weslie added of her stepfather, “My relationship with Stephen is irreplaceable. And that’s how I see it.”

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