Alison Holker shares tWitch’s final words to their oldest daughter

Zaya Boss, Alison Holker, Wesley Fowler, Maddox Laurel Boss and Stephen “tWitch” Boss.
Rodin Eckenroth / WireImageAlison Holker shares new details about her late husband Stephen “bargain” BossThe last days before him premature death.
The morning before Bose disappeared, Holker, 36, said her husband dropped their eldest daughter, Wesley, at school. His last words to her were, “I wish I could be your Superman.”
“To have someone say those last words to you that you didn’t really consider while doing something bad … it’s very difficult, especially as a teenager,” Holker said. People in an interview published on Tuesday, January 7. “She handles it with a lot more grace than she should.”
boss died by suicide aged 40 in December 2022. He had Wesley, 16, Maddox, 8, and Zaya, 5, with Holker.
More than two years after Boss’s unexpected death, Holker is ready to share insight into her family’s long journey of healing in a new memoir titled It’s Far Away: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light.
Holker said she and her children began intensive therapy in 2023 after the late DJ’s death and eventually learned that “not being okay is okay.”
“We took steps to really help (Wesley) and talk to her and make her feel seen and heard,” Holker shared, acknowledging that her oldest daughter was the last family member to see Boss alive. “I think she also takes those words as something beautiful and also something ugly. It’s a battle she’ll always have with herself, but I know she sees it from both sides.”

After Boss’s death, Holker teamed up with numerous mental health organizations, including the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Maple Counseling, to spread awareness about the importance of mental health.
She also remains determined to be the best parent she can be to her three children.
“The most important thing I want to do for Wesley is give her the strength to deal with whatever she’s facing,” she said. “This is really what I want for my children. Just keep taking steps forward. Everything will be waiting for you, and that’s okay.”
While Holker continues to learn about private struggle her late husband, So you think you can dance alum uses people and resources that can be useful.
“I’m not going to have closure. My children will not be closed,” she said about her husband’s death. “It’s something I’m still trying to figure out myself, so the therapy is great.”
It’s Far Away: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light available February 4.
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