Allison Holker claims her late husband, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, left her with massive amounts of debt following his December 2022 suicide.
“It’s a misconception that I inherited Stephen’s wealth,” the “So You Think You Can Dance” judge, 36, writes in her controversial memoir, “This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light,” released on Tuesday.
“The reality is quite different,” she says, alleging the former “Ellen DeGeneres Show” executive producer “had given away substantial sums of money to family and friends and spent recklessly on drugs and his weird art collections.”
She also claims he left her with a tax bill amounting to $1 million for the year he died, as well as unpaid homeowner’s insurance.
Holker says she was blindsided not only by Boss’ suicide at age 40 but the gravity of his finances, given that they’d “always maintained separate bank accounts” throughout their nine-year marriage and simply “divvied up the bills.”
“In truth, nothing was easy. I’m still jumping through endless bureaucratic hoops because Stephen didn’t leave a will,” Holker says of Boss, with whom she shared three children.
“I couldn’t solely focus on mourning in those first few months because I was preoccupied with reworking contracts, rebuilding my business network and getting my finances in order,” she writes, adding that she’s “still in the trenches” when it comes to money.
Holker wonders if it would have “made any difference” had her husband “known how much of our hard-earned money would go to pay lawyers’ fees to clean up the mess he left me with.”
“I’d like to believe it would have,” she says. “Stephen left me with double the work, double the noise, double the hardships, double the confusion — and half the household earnings.”
Holker is currently at odds with Boss’ family, who’ve accused her of tarnishing his legacy, especially after she wrote in her memoir about his alleged drug use and childhood traumas, including suspected molestation.