Allison Holker Recalls Taking Brutal Financial Meetings 1 Day After Stephen 'tWitch' Boss' Death: 'Already Lost So Much'

Mar. 15, 2025

Allison Holker attends the World Premiere Of Sony Pictures' “Madame Web” at Regency Village Theatre on February 12, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.Photo:Steven Simione/WireImage

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Allison Holkeris opening up about navigating the unexpected financial burden following her husbandStephen “tWitch” Boss’ death.

During a conversation onSoFi’s talk showRicher Liveswith Vivian Tu, theSo You Think You Can Dancejudge, 36, admitted her late husband’s death had a “huge” financial impact on their family.

“And after everything happened, of course, I was recently getting so much love from everyone,” she continued. “And I was getting a lot of support from people in the sense of emotion but what people did not realize was there’s so much more to go into this, besides just emotion.”

In the aftermath of the tragedy, Holker said she was almost immediately taking meetings to figure out finances.

“Financially, the day after my husband’s passing, I was immediately having to take meetings about taxes, about contracts that were existing and that he was at breach of contract,” she recalled. “Now are those contracts going to exist? Where will my income come from now that he’s out of breach of contract because a lot of our businesses were together?”

As she navigated her own grief and parenting her children —Zaia, 4, andMaddox, 8, and Weslie, 16 — Holker realized those meetings were necessary to move forward.

“I was like, you know what, no one else is gonna be able to do this for me especially now and we’ve already lost so much, I can’t lose that,” she recalled.

Allison Holker and Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss attend the 2022 Industry Dance Awards at Avalon Hollywood & Bardot on October 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.Momodu Mansaray/Getty

Momodu Mansaray/Getty

“I took that role and I said, ‘You know what this is actually, what’s gonna help me survive…This is really, really hard, but I think this is a gift from the universe. Being like, you need to fix this, this is gonna help you grieve at the same time, take care of everything and don’t look back,” she continued. “I was not going to be a person that grieves first and then does it after as I can’t lose more.”

Holker also noted that her late husband left her “in a bit of a bind” when it came to the couple’s brand deals.

From left: Zaia Boss, Allison Holker, Weslie Fowler, Maddox Laurel Boss, and Stephen “tWitch” Boss attend Illumination and Universal Pictures' “Minions: The Rise of Gru” Los Angeles premiere.Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage

“I had to allow some brands or some opportunities that were in the works, I had to let some of them go,” she said. “I had to be grateful that I had the chance to talk with those people and also understand that what they received was not what they signed up for. We were always the happy go lucky couple with a beautiful family, and now when people saw me at that moment, they saw sadness, and that’s not what brands were looking for.”

She added: “I kind of became unhirable for a moment, and contracts that were existing were like, that’s not what we signed up for and I had to be like, I understand, because it’s also not what I signed up for. So I can’t be mad at them. I understood.”

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