Candiace Dillard Says Allison Holker Didn’t Protect tWitch’s Legacy

“The Actual Housewives of Potomac” alum Candiace Dillard will not be happy with how a lot Stephen “tWitch” Boss’s widow, Allison Holker, stated about him in a latest interview.

Holker shared that she found her late husband’s drug habit when she discovered an plentiful provide of gear that have been hidden inside his shoeboxes.

The invention saddened Holker, who by no means knew tWitch, who she was married to for 9 years, was battling a lot that she did not find out about.

tWitch died by suicide in December 2022. He was 40 years outdated.

On Tuesday, Dillard commented on a publish by PEOPLE Journal on X about Holker’s interview wherein she revealed how she found tWitch’s drug habit.

The tv persona was displeased that Holker revealed a lot about her late husband and felt she did not shield their children or his legacy.

Dillard wrote, “I am not even gonna say it. However this white girl is doing every part however defending her Black kids and her Black husband’s legacy. She might’ve saved this in her therapist’s workplace. SMH.”

A fan responded to Dillard’s publish by stating that Holker might need used her interview to boost consciousness about psychological sickness or drug abuse.

The fan wrote, “I would not do it however is it doable that her intent is to make folks conscious of psychological sickness/drug abuse, acknowledge the indicators and eradicate the stigma? I simply hope she ran it by his household first. Not that it makes it any simpler for any of them.”

Nevertheless, Dillard replied to the fan’s remark, stating that Holker ought to have taken her revelations to a Black-owned information outlet.

She wrote, “She [Holker] might’ve simply simply taken this story to Essence or Ebony the place care would have been taken to share such a tragically intimate story of a Black man’s plight in opposition to himself.”

Dillard’s feedback come after Holker granted an interview to PEOPLE Journal, revealing a shocking discovery about her deceased husband on one of the troublesome days of her life.

She shared that she discovered a “cornucopia” of medication, together with tablets, mushrooms, and “different substances” that she needed to search for on her telephone. The medicine have been hidden inside tWitch’s shoeboxes.

Holker recalled, “I used to be with one in all my actually pricey buddies, and we have been cleansing out the closet and selecting out an outfit for him for the funeral.”

She added, “It was a extremely triggering second for me as a result of there have been lots of issues I found in our closet that I didn’t know existed. It was very alarming to me to be taught that there was a lot taking place that I had no clue [about].”

Holker stated figuring what she discovered was “a extremely scary second” in her life. Nevertheless, it helped her to course of that tWitch “was going via a lot and he was hiding a lot, and there should have been lots of disgrace in that.”

In response to Holker, she and tWitch communicated truthfully with one another, together with about his marijuana use. Nevertheless, as she went via his journals after his demise in her quest for readability and closure, she found he kept painful secrets away from her.

She stated, “He was wrestling with so much inside himself, and he was making an attempt to self-medicate and address all these emotions as a result of he did not wish to put it on anybody as a result of he beloved everybody a lot.”

Holker additionally shared that tWitch alluded to being sexually abused by a person throughout his childhood, including, “He did not need different folks to tackle his ache.”

Though Holker felt betrayed after unearthing tWitch’s secrets and techniques, she gained a brand new perception as time handed.

She stated, “Studying Stephen’s journals, and even going again into the books he had learn and the issues he was highlighting and lining, actually gave me a greater perspective of the place he was in life and the kind of issues he was battling. It did have me really feel lots of empathy in the direction of him and unhappiness for all of the ache he was holding.”

Holker’s interview comes forward of the discharge of her memoir, “This Far,” set for launch on February 4. The guide particulars her therapeutic journey within the aftermath of her husband’s demise.

Throughout the interview, she expressed her want to save lots of even only one particular person struggling in silence by sharing tWitch’s struggles.

She stated, “It was actually onerous to place all of the items collectively. By sure discussions, even with buddies and issues which were stated, studying via his journals … you notice he went via so much as a baby and by no means confronted it.”

Holker added, “It is onerous to assume that he by no means opened as much as somebody and wished to face it, to get via on the opposite aspect. I actually hope folks coping with the identical factor will assist themselves out of the shadows and [know] you are going to be okay.”

tWitch shared three children, Weslie, 16, Maddox, 8, and Zaia, 5, with Holker.