Allison Holker, TWitch’s daughter Weslie defends mom amid book drama

Allison HolkerHer daughter Weslie comes to her defense in the middle the ongoing social media drama about her So far memoir details Stephen “tWitch” the bossAlleged addiction and the struggle for mental health.

“My stepdad has been gone for two years and I still get hateful comments,” 16-year-old Weslie said on Friday 10. Instagram video. “It’s just complicated and for no reason. It’s not just social media appearances; this is literally my life. I’m so sick of getting hateful comments and seeing my mom hate herself for literally losing the person she loves and I have siblings. This is their dad – this is who they’re going to grow up with and see all this on social media, which is so hurtful.’

Holker, 36, was married to Boss from 2013 until 2022, when he he died by suicide at the age of 40. In addition to Wesley, they share a son, Maddox, 8, and a daughter, Zaia, 5. (According to Weslie, she was never legally adopted by the Boss, though he says he “literally raised her”.)

“I understand that my relationship with Stephen seems complicated, but this man has raised me my whole life — since I was 1,” Weslie explained. “I have a biological father (and) I have a relationship with him, but Stephen was the person who raised me. He literally raised me and it’s painful to see… so many new stories. It’s much more complicated and I don’t know how to explain it well.’

She added: “This is 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 would go to absolutely everything. He is a person I would cry to. He woke me up every morning, we had breakfast, and he was the person I saw when he got home from work. We lived within the same four walls and now I’m starting to hate that he’s leaving – and I don’t understand. It’s hurtful.”

Holker’s upcoming memoir, due out later this year, has made waves among Boss’s family and friends. After People published the interview with Holker regarding her book many members of his family slammed Dancing with the stars alum for writing about Boss’s alleged struggles with addiction and publishing his private journals. Holker, meanwhile, does denounced the charges and said her “sole intention” is to raise awareness for people with similar substance abuse and mental health issues. He also says he plans to donate all proceeds from the book to a nonprofit organization set up in Boss’ honor.

“I see people saying it’s not my place because I’m not his biological daughter, but he’s never made me feel like anything other than his daughter — and I think that speaks to who he was,” Weslie said of her decision speak. in the wake of online backlash and criticism of her mother. “Nobody’s sitting here trying to beat him up like he’s a good person.

She continued: “I still try to treat everyone with respect. I’m just out, like his family, everyone is in the headlines now — and those are big players in my life and big players in the lives of my siblings and my mother. These are all people I grew up with. And seeing them now… it’s like, I don’t know. I try to be respectful, but it’s complicated because at some point every week I talk to Stephen’s mom.’

According to Weslie, she only saw Boss’s family “once or twice a year” while he was still alive.

“But you have to understand that it’s because they live in another state and we literally live in another state,” she explained. “It’s not like we’re neighbors. It’s not like we could see them whenever we wanted, and now my mom is constantly trying to make the kids a part of their lives. I’m not trying, but that’s who I am.’

Weslie now claims she feels “disrespected by them” and no longer wants to communicate.

“They’ve been saying ‘Blood is thicker than water’ on social media and that’s a direct hit on me and my mum,” she claimed. “And if you don’t see me as Stephen’s daughter, that’s great, take that as you will. I know for sure he has never seen it like this and it literally hurts. … I slowly started moving away from them because they’re not doing me any good, and my mom is the one who tries and feels the need and the need to see them because she cares.”

Boss’s family also alleged that Holker made everyone sign a non-disclosure agreement before the visit his funeral service in 2022.

“You all love to argue about NDAs,” Weslie explained. “But within a day we had an open casket like we were looking at Stephen. We had the funeral and then we had a week and my mom asked to sign an NDA when we saw Stephen’s body because God forbid someone who went there took a picture of Stephen and put it on the internet or shared it with someone else. That’s the type of thing NDAs are for. It’s not like you can never talk about Stephen.”

Weslie added: “I’m tired of it because NDAs are so important and if you don’t agree with them, that’s cool. I’m thankful that my mom made sure everyone signed an NDA and she made that rule.”

According to the teenager, Holker was apparently “lenient” with her NDA request.

“At the end of the day, he understands that this is family,” Weslie said. “So you all want to disrespect her (while) she’s still kind, still kind, still forgiving, but you have to know that even when Stephen was alive, people who attended our events had to sign NDAs. But now, just because the paper serves my mom, it’s different and it’s just annoying. Like, because the whole day was supposed to be beautiful, and instead it was less. We wanted to say goodbye and instead people yelled at each other and they were beating my mom and like, that’s the day they took away from her — he can’t remember it as the day we all wanted to be because his family did it differently.”

Weslie further condemned claims that Holker was “hungry for money” or desiring “greater fame”.

“My mom is not like that. Trust me when I say my mom is good — she doesn’t need (the money),” Weslie said. “It’s disappointing. … My mom tried (with his family). She tried as long as she could, but this is the kind of tipping point where it’s like, this is over, it’s over, just like when you’re trying to maintain a relationship, now it’s like you’re all burning bridges and literally it’s okay.”

Weslie went on to plead with her followers to “leave the family alone”.

“I’m not one to sit here and cry. I won’t be here and I won’t get upset. But like, couldn’t you just let someone die and leave the family alone? she said. “Like, oh my god, you have to add something to it, like, I don’t know, and it’s just disappointing because if you all say you held him in such high regard, like, this is not the type of family dynamic that we had and whatever you want to push on social media, like, I’ll grow up and see it, like my siblings will grow up seeing it, and they’ll have to make up their own minds about who their dad was, and us about him we only speak in such a beautiful light. I loved him. I have nothing negative about him.”

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