Inside the ‘Conflict’ Between Allison Holker and Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss’ Family That Led to NDAs

After several of Boss’ loved ones made the claim, TMZ obtained the document on Monday, January 13, reporting that family members are financially blocked from “collecting any money from a memoir about their relationship and his death.” According to the outlet, Boss’ family and others who signed the paperwork agreed to give Holker any money they received from press opportunities and books about him.

A source exclusively told Us Weekly that when Boss was alive, he “asked his family to sign his NDAs, when there were things involving his kids, like birthdays, which is commonplace for celebrities to do.”
The insider added that 100 percent of the proceeds from Holker’s upcoming memoir, This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light, are going to mental health charities. “She is making no money off this book,” the source claimed. (Holker previously shared that she planned to give the profits from the book to the foundation she set up in Boss’ memory.)

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In an excerpt from Holker’s memoir obtained by Us, the dancer wrote that there was “conflict” over how Boss’ body would be displayed at the service. Holker, 36, claimed his family “insisted” on an open casket because of an African American tradition.
Holker ultimately agreed that a “small group” of people could view the open casket before it was closed for the rest of the wake. However, Holker didn’t want there to be any photographs taken during the casket viewing, which she thought would be an “obvious” choice.

“I couldn’t risk any photo getting leaked to the press or splashed across social media platforms and becoming the lasting image that people would have of him. My children absolutely, positively could not stumble upon such a photograph at some later date,” she wrote. “At the advice of my lawyers, I insisted that everybody who viewed the open casket sign a nondisclosure agreement to protect Stephen’s privacy, a requirement that exasperated his family. ‘If we have to sign NDAs,’ they said, ‘then everybody has to sign NDAs.’ ‘No problem,’ I replied.”

Boss died by suicide at age 40 in December 2022. More than two years later, Holker received backlash from fans, fellow So You Think You Can Dance alums and Boss’ family for sharing personal details about his life in her upcoming memoir. Holker’s eldest daughter defended her earlier this month — and explained why the NDAs were necessary at Boss’ service.
“Y’all love to argue about the NDAs,” Weslie, 16, said in a Friday, January 10, Instagram video. (Weslie is Holker’s daughter from a previous relationship. Holker and Boss shared son Maddox, 8, and daughter Zaia, 5.)
She continued, “But in one day, we had an open casket viewing for Stephen. We had a funeral, and then we had a week, 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 thing that NDAs are for. It’s not so you can never talk about Stephen.”