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Ellen DeGeneres has issued a connection regarding the decease of her erstwhile speech show’s longtime DJ and co-executive producer, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, saying connected Wednesday that she’s “heartbroken” implicit his passing.

“I’m heartbroken. tWitch was axenic emotion and light,” she wrote connected Instagram. “He was my family, and I loved him with each my heart. I volition miss him. Please nonstop your emotion and enactment to Allison and his beauteous children - Weslie, Maddox, and Zaia.”

Allison Holker Boss, his wife, confirmed successful a connection to CNN connected Wednesday that her hubby had died astatine property 40.

He died by suicide, according to the LA County Medical Examiner. The LA County Coroner’s Office concluded their introspection and published the study connected his decease connected Wednesday.

Boss began his DJ duties connected “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” successful 2014, yet going connected to go a co-executive shaper and occasional impermanent host.

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Amid tribulations during the show’s run, stemming from allegations against DeGeneres from immoderate employees astir a toxic enactment environment, Boss publically stood by his person DeGeneres.

“We can’t talk excessively overmuch legally astir it, but I’ll accidental this, there’s been love,” Boss told Us Weekly. “Obviously there’s immoderate things to address, but from my standpoint and from countless others, there’s been love. I’ll conscionable permission it astatine that until there’s a clip wherever we tin code much publicly. There’s been emotion and determination volition proceed to beryllium love.”

As the amusement geared up for its finale earlier this year, Boss looked backmost astatine his clip determination with fondness, telling Entertainment Tonight that bidding farewell was a challenge.

“Things bash person a opening and they person an end, truthful I cognize that, but I deliberation the person that it’s getting to the end, naturally, arsenic we do, you commencement to miss it and you commencement to soak successful each of the small moments wherever you go, ‘Well, possibly I’m not rather acceptable to accidental goodbye conscionable yet,’” helium said. “But past astatine the aforesaid time, this is the earthy bid of things and besides I’ve said it before, I’m conscionable excited for my person to commencement her caller section of the remainder of her journey, you know?”

When the clip came for the “Ellen” amusement to motion off, DeGeneres amazed Boss with a moving tribute on air. At 1 point, she said, “Well, I don’t privation to accidental goodbye.”

She went connected to recount the archetypal clip they met – fittingly, for a creation acquisition astatine her house.

“It was similar a clang people successful getting to cognize each different … and helium was truthful diligent with me,” she said. “We conscionable bonded implicit learning to creation together.”

DeGeneres went connected to enactment that erstwhile helium was absent from the amusement for immoderate reason, a portion was missing.

“I number connected him to look implicit and marque silly jokes,” she said. “I emotion you, tWitch, and you cognize however much. We archer each different that each time erstwhile we accidental goodbye. After the show, we some accidental ‘love you.’ He says, ‘Love you much,’ and I say, ‘Love you.’ And, so, he’s ne'er going to beryllium retired of my life.”

Boss reacted emotionally to the video portion and DeGeneres’ words.

“I emotion the household we’ve gained and thing I’ll ever retrieve is that you gave maine a spot wherever I tin conscionable beryllium myself,” helium said. He added, joking: “Whether I was a existent DJ oregon not, I ever felt astatine home.”

DeGeneres joked back, “You’re a fake DJ but you’re existent bully man.”