Allison Holker’s Daughter Weslie, 16, Breaks Her Silence in Raw Video About Late Stepdad Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss

Mar. 15, 2025

From left: Allison Holker, daughter Weslie Renae and Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss.Photo:Allison Holker/Instagram

Allison Holker/Instagram

Allison Holker’s teenage daughter,Weslie Renae, is speaking out about her “irreplaceable” relationship with late stepdadStephen “tWitch” Bossand addressing criticisms of her family — from why she doesn’t use his surname to why her mom requested his family sign funeral NDAs.

From left: Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, Weslie Renae, Maddox Laurel, Allison Holker and Zaia.Stephen tWitch Boss/Instagram

Stephen tWitch Boss/Instagram

As for her own relationship with her late stepdad, she said “this is my dad — this is not a joke to me.”

“For 13 years, my parents were together, and for 13 years he was the person I would go to about everything,” she said of Boss. “He’s the person I would cry to. He’d wake me up every morning, we’d get breakfast. He’s the person that I would see when he came home from work with. We lived in the same four walls and now I’m getting hate for him leaving, and I don’t get it. It’s hurtful.”

“And I guess I’m trying to describe our relationship because I see people saying that it’s not my place because I’m not his biological daughter, but he never made me feel like anything besides his daughter,” she continued. “I just think it speaks for who he was and nobody’s sitting up here trying to bash him. He was a good person.”

Weslie, her siblings, Holker and Boss were referred to as “the Boss family” and that’s “the name that my siblings are going to have and that’s what they’re going to carry on,” she explained, “but even Stephen’s family, like his parents, they don’t have the last name Boss.”

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Allison Holker (right) with kids Maddox Laurel, Weslie Renae and Zaia.Allison Holker/Instagram

Beyond her personal relationship with Boss — and her mom’s — Weslie also addressed a recent claim from the late dancer’s family, who alleged that Holker made them sign an NDA before they could attend his funeral.

“Basically, one day we had an open casket viewing for Stephen. We had a funeral and then we had a wake, and my mom asked for NDAs to be signed when we were seeing Stephen’s body because God forbid somebody that went to that took a photo of Stephen and put it on the internet or shared it with somebody else — that’s the type of things that NDAs are for,” she explained.

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

“If you guys don’t agree, that’s cool. I’m grateful for my mom making sure that everybody signed NDAs and she put up that rule,” she said. “But also regardless, some people didn’t even sign the NDAs and my mom was lenient because she understands at the end of the day, this is family, so you all want to disrespect her and she’s still nice, she’s still kind, she’s still forgiving.”

Elsewhere in the video, the teen also defended her mom from online criticisms about the way she has opened up about Boss’smental health and addiction strugglesahead of the release ofThis Far.

“My mom gets called a murderer. They say that she’s money hungry. They say that she needs more fame. That’s not how my mom is,” she explained. “Trust me when I say my mom is good, she doesn’t need that.”

Allison Holker Boss and Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss in October 2022.Momodu Mansaray/Getty

Momodu Mansaray/Getty

“Whatever you all want to push on social media, I’m going to grow up seeing it, my siblings are going to grow up seeing it. And also they’re going to have to form their own opinion of who their dad was,” she said. “And we only speak about him in such a beautiful light. I loved him. I have nothing negative to say about him besides I think that he made an unfortunate decision and it’s unexplainable.”

“But here’s the thing,” she said. “My siblings, they’re strong kids and my mom’s raising them, raising them to be so strong. I am already my own person, but I’ve been this way. They’re growing up with one parent and to see that one parent get torn down, it’s crazy. I don’t get it. I don’t get it because my mom is all we have.”

“We have other family, we have other people we can go to, but through this, my mom’s been our rock,” she continued. “So just know that that’s the type of person you’re tearing down, who’s been peaceful, who’s kept things off the social media.”

As for sister Zaia and brother Maddox — who Weslie said is “getting to the age where he’s able to realize things” — she said, “I just don’t want social media battles to infringe on how they see their dad or how they see their mom.”

The Boss family.Allison Holker/Instagram

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

And, despite concerns and criticisms about how Holker has discussed Boss in the media or her upcoming memoir, Weslie assured that “that’s not to ever bash who Stephen was — it’s literally my mom telling her story, and her story is also still going to continue.”

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

source: people.com