
“When I wake up in the morning, it does hit me that, oh my God, he really is not physically here. “At this point, I’m in realization, I guess,” she said. While she focuses on family, the grieving mother talked of still trying to come to terms with her loss. “He was so in tune with analyzing and trying to make himself better, reading self-help books, so this came as a complete shock.” To the extent that Stephen may have been in a Black depression - no, not Stephen,” Boss Alexander said.

“I’d been sick, so he texted to ask how I was feeling,” she said of their final communication. The Boss Alexander has two other sons, but shared a special bond with Boss. “When I think about him, I try not to dwell on how he left this earth,” she said. In an interview with People magazine, Connie Boss Alexander talked about the loss of her son, who died at age 40. Now his mother has opened up about her struggle with his death.

It’s been six months since Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the amiable DJ for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and dancer who rose to fame on “So You Think You Can Dance,” died by suicide.
