Allison Holker is responding to household and buddies of her late husband Stephen "tWitch" Boss after receiving criticism for her new memoir, This Far, which particulars his 2022 loss of life.

"To followers of Stephen and our household and buddies, I wish to be clear that my solely intention in writing the ebook is to share my very own story in addition to a part of my life with Stephen to assist different folks," she started a prolonged assertion posted to her Instagram Tales on January 8.

Holker enumerated two main motives for writing the memoir: "to have a good time the love and life I shared with Stephen and our three lovely youngsters, and likewise the extra advanced points of each of our lives," and to "assist another person who may see themselves or a liked one in Stephen. In sharing I hope that possibly they’ll catch some the pink flags that I missed earlier than it's too late."

Boss died on the age of 40 in Dec. 2022. The Los Angeles County coroner's workplace concluded that the DJ identified for his tenure on the The Ellen DeGeneres Show died died by suicide.

Feedback Holker made to PEOPLE in a Jan. 7 interview triggered the wave of criticism. Holker recounted a "triggering second" through which "numerous issues I found in our closet that I didn’t know existed" whereas deciding on an outfit for Boss's funeral. The previous So You Suppose You Can Dance? contestant described a "cornucopia" of medication and "different substances" recovered from the closet, a grim reminder that Boss "was hiding a lot, and there will need to have been numerous disgrace in that."

The identical day, household buddy Courtney Ann Platt shared a photograph of the story on her Instagram, calling the memoir "by far essentially the most cheesy, classless, opportunistic act I’ve ever seen in my total life."

"Right here you go and write a ebook with all of the soiled laundry smearing his title and making an attempt to dim the intense loyal, loving, gentle that was your husband, my buddy," she continued, calling the publication and promotion of the memoir a "smear marketing campaign." Boss's brother Dré Rose then shared Platt's submit with the caption, "No lies instructed."

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"Over the course of the final 2 years, I've spoken intimately with NAMI in addition to the Solomon household and THE DEFENSIVE LINE basis to raised educate myself on psychological well being points in order that I can share warning indicators with others," Holker wrote on Instagram in the present day. She added that every one the proceeds from her memoir can be donated to "the psychological well being centered basis I began in Stephen's honor, Transfer with Kindness."

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Holker concluded her submit by writing, "My hope is that we don't have to lose one other husband, brother, father, or buddy to suicide. I consider that if Stephen had been in a position to decide on, he would select to have his story instructed if it meant saving even one life. A lot like to all those that have supported our household these a few years."

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Holker and Boss's romance first sparked once they each appeared as All Stars on season 7 of So You Suppose You Can Dance. "We shared a dance on the wrap get together of that season of So You Suppose You Can Dance and now we have been collectively ever since," Boss instructed PEOPLE on the time.

The couple ultimately married in 2013 and welcomed three youngsters – Weslie (16), Maddox (8), and Zaia (5).

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