Ellen DeGeneresis urging her fans “to honor” the lateStephen “tWitch” Bossthis holiday season, after hisdeath at age 40.
On Friday, DeGeneres, 64, shared a teary video to Instagram in which she admitted that “the past eleven days have been really tough for everyone” in the wake of Boss' death.
“Everyone is in pain and trying to make sense of it, and we’ll never make sense of it,” the comedian spoke into her front-facing camera. “The holidays are hard, I think, anyway, but to honor tWitch I think the best thing that we can do is to laugh, hug each other, play games and dance and sing. That’s the way we honor him, is we do the things that he loved to do, which is dancing.”
Ellen DeGeneres speaks about Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss on Instagram.ellen degeneres/instagram
“He loved music, he loved games, so we do that,” DeGeneres continued in the video. “And I know it seems hard, it seems impossible, but that’s how we honor him.”
The comedian implored her followers to “hug each other and tell each other we love each other and let people know we’re there for them and check in on people.”
“So, happy holidays everybody,” DeGeneres said, before she acknowledged: “it’s not a happy holiday, but…”
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DeGeneres, who left a single red emoji heart in the caption to her Instagram post Friday, has been sharing videos ofher favorite moments with the late staronThe Ellen DeGeneres Show, ever since his death.
One video, posted on Dec. 15, included Boss teaching DeGeneres a dance and him becoming the show’s DJ.
“Whenever he’s not here it’s just different … he’s my pal, he’s my sidekick, because we have this connection,” she said in the video. “Just looking over and he makes me laugh. He really, really makes me laugh.”
The clip concluded with DeGeneres giving Boss a photo of the pair with their arms wrapped around each other. He then emotionally told the host, “I love you and also I love the family that we’ve gained here. And something I’ll always remember is that you gave me a place to just be myself.”
source: people.com
